I have linux RH6.0 with IP masq & dialondemand working.
>From a WFW3.11 workstation all is fine & the linux ppp link drops after
specified period of inactivity, & reconnects as needed.
When I add a W95 workstation net access works fine etc, but linux never
drops the ppp link, because tcpdump -i ppp0 shows that the W95 box
seems to keep on sending DNS requests about every 10 mins or so,
even when its doing nothing, browser shutdown, & screensaver on.
I think someone had this same problem & there was a W95 registry fix
to stop these repeated DNS requests preventing the idle timeout to work.
But I can't find the fix in SLUG mail archives or on search engines.
Does anyone recall either the W95 registry fix,
or perhaps a way to tell ppp's activity monitoring to ignore these packets,
or is this why caching name servers are recommended ?
TIA
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