You can also block these from your firewalling rules if you want to. This would keep the burden down on diald. I'm not sure which way is more "kernel friendly" but I block 'em in the firewall. If you're using ipfwadm (or the ipfwadm "conversion" script for ipchains) the commands would be: #Block Windows housekeeping traffic from triggering autodial etc. /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a deny -P tcp -S 0.0.0.0/0 137:139 /sbin/ipfwadm -F -a deny -P udp -S 0.0.0.0/0 137:139 Just add 'em to your existing firewall script. Note, this keeps 'em from going out on the ppp connection too and eating up valuable bandwidth there. They should be dropped at the first internet router in any case though I'm not sure how IP Masq would deal with them. Guru's please speak out on these issues. Would these windows housekeeping traffic be Masqueraded to the Internet? Which block would be more kernel friendly? peace favor your sword ---------- From: K.A. Steensma Sent: Thursday, March 04, 1999 8:01 AM To: LKLawson; 'LINUX-DI@SMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Subject: [Fwd: I never thought that I would be on Original Subject: [Fwd: I never thought that I would be one too -] TO: Anssi Sallinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This message (from Matt Kressel) solved all my problems. But it looks like you have already done this. But have you 'included' the correct filter file? Matt Kressel wrote: > "K.A. Steensma" wrote: > > > > I (guess) that I am (to dumb) not understanding the how and where of the fix. > > I did go throught the man pages for diald and diald-examples but I only caught > > a short half paragraph about netbios-ns. Can you give (a dumby) some more > > help. TIA Keith > > > > > > Every 10 minutes or so Win 95/98/NT sends out netbios-ns requests to say > > > "Anybody out there?". Just disable ports 137,138, and 139 from bringing > > > up the link in your standard.filter file. > > > > > Add the following to the standard.filter file and use the "include" > directive in the diald.conf to include the standard.filter file: > > ignore udp udp.source=udp.netbios-ns > ignore udp udp.dest=udp.netbios-ns > > You may have to do this with netbios-dgm and netbios-ssn as well and > perhaps tcp as well as udp. This is to make sure all Windows traffic is > essentially ignored. > > -Matt > > -- > INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Matt Kressel > "And you run, and you run to catch up with the Sun, but its > sinking. Racing around to come up behind you again." -PF - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-diald" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-diald" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
