RE: [cobalt-users] Repeated Dial-up Connections... why?

[Rodolfo Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Just to check the stupid...you don't have Outlook
> automaticlly checking for email do you ? (And
> loose real audio applet)

I do have Outlook check regularly, and that happens with my knowledge and
consent. But 98% of the calls happen when both Daniela and I are out of the
house, and we always take our computers with us.

So the only two things running are a Win2K server--which ought to connect
once every 9.3 hours to send a SETI@home work unit--and the Qube. And to
make it even more interesting, the Win2K machine doesn't see the Qube on the
network and can't even ping it (though it gets its IP address from the
Qube's DHCP), so I have it set to autodial its own modem (!) when it needs
the Internet.

So what is connecting... I dunno.

> if you can find tcpdump you can watch all IP traffic tho i
> dunno if you can put it on a qube..

A little more detail... are you implying that there is software I can get
that will let me see which computer requests what connections to where on
what port? Cool... (yes, I'm truly ignorant of some things.) So where would
I get such a thing? And since you fear it may not be possible to install it
on the Qube, where could I install it? Is there a Windows version? (The Qube
is my only Linux box.)

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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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