On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 11:03:05PM -0500, Tim Coleman wrote:
>
> >I dunno whose problem this is, it may be a weird interaction of several
> >different packages.
>
> >Sometimes (not infrequently) if you're not careful how you operate
> >the AOL client, it appears to spit out a packet destined for some
> >unnamed server at AOL (based on searches with nslookup and similar
> >tools) into the in-house network instead of sending it out over its
> >own dialup connection. This, of course, causes diald to pick up the
> >phone thereby disconnecting the direct dialup connection AOL has
> >established on its local modem.
>
> I'd suggest that you modify your ip masquerading rules to block
> these packets that bring up the connection. If you have a port
> number and a source/destination, it shouldn't be that hard to
> do.
>
> You could also put it into your diald filter and tell diald to
> ignore such packets.
OK, I'd love to do either of those things but am too ignorant to
know how to do it. Can you offer a suggestion? (Actually, I could
probably figure out how to change the masq rules, but I'd like to know
in general how to do it in diald and haven't a clue.)
>
> >This commonly happens because of a prompt for password that appears to
> >come from the SMB subsystem every time one fires up AOL. If you click
> >the CANCEL button on this dialog you get these stray packets that
> >cause diald to try to bring up the modem.
>
> This sounds pretty scary to me. Why should an AOL client prompt for
> a password from the SMB subsystem?
Good question!
>
> >One way to "fix" it is to reconfigure the AOL client so it uses a
> >TCP/IP connection to AOL (thereby forcing it to use diald to bring
> >up the link for its main connection). But the person who uses the AOL
> >client for some reason I fail to understand insists on using the local
> >modem instead.
>
> I can understand that. It's her/his modem, she/he has paid for it, why
> not use it? As well, she/he doesn't have to share bandwidth with
> the masqueraded connection.
Yeah. Instead, he/she hogs the only phone line in the building. I
think progress is being made on this particular front since it was
learned that AOL costs less if you provide your own transport.
Thanks for replying!
Fred
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