George,
I had exactly the same thing happen when a machine was left with an Alta
Vista home page in the browser. The banner ad keeps refreshing itself every
5 minutes or so. This kept the diald timers running and so diald didn't
shut the line down.
I don't think there are any diald filters or ipchains rules that can be
applied to overcome this situation other than preventing the banner ads in
the first place.
Unlike your experience I though that another couple of minutes on line
compared to the 50 hours already spent was worth using to investigate the
problem further. The diald monitor output showed that the line was being
kept up by one connection. I then used www.samspade.org to trace the IP
address and so discovered the banner ad site. I then went around the
machines to find the one still on with an Alta Vista home page. Shutting
this off allowed diald to time out the connection and the line dropped.
Maybe you should be looking for something similar.
HTH,
Andy.
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From: George Mailer[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 09 August 2000 13:37
To: linux-diald mailing list
Subject: diald quandery ???
I have been using diald-0.16.4-1 on a RedHat Linux version 2.0.32 system
for
several
years without problem.
I just came back after a day away to find it has been connected to my ISP
for over 30
hours ( at local telco rates in the UK !). ( It was running 'normal' and
not
'forced').
- the normal rules didn't apply and upon investigation I found that sl1 was
running - not sl0
as normal - I can't see why ???
- I tried restarting diald and it didn't clear the problem so for ease went
for the panic button
and did a reboot - all seems OK again now.
- there would presumably have been no traffic on the link for the majority
of this time.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what could have been wrong and how might
be
best to
prevent a re-occurance !
Thanks in advance - regards - George.
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