[geeks] What would cause this

[Big Endian]

>I am looking for a no fuss way to stop my machines on my home LAN from
>smacking the gateway and bringing up a link.  Right now I am using ICS
>from Win2K.  The Mac only brings up a link during the boot of OS X (no it
>isn't NTP... it's probably a Netinfo broadcast of some sort), but
>otherwise the Mac and PC behave.  I have just added a Quadra 840AV running
>Debian 2.2r3 and a Sparc LX running Sol 7.  I have isolated most of the
>spurious dial requests to the 10baseT portion of the network containing
>the two last machines.  I tried shutting off sendmail on the Sparc... no
>dice... still getting dials.  I shut down the Quadra... no dials.... so I
>know the Quadra is doing it.  I removed apache and also samba from the
>Quadra in the hopes it would just sit there idle... it still wants to
>connect every once in a while... any other things I should look for.  Yes
>I know ideally I should have an older Cisco and define interesting
>traffic, but I'm sort of unemployed.

take the 2k machine, throw linux/bsd/solaris/etc on it and include a 
local caching name server.  This should help cut down the spurious 
dials.

daniel
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