Re: configd and ppp
Re: configd and ppp
- Subject: Re: configd and ppp
- From: "Duane Murphy" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:13:39 -0800
--- At Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:20:16 -0500, Peter Lovell wrote:
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hH folks,
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I have a puzzle with regard to "configd" daemon and PPP. It works OK - no
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problem there - but there's a puzzling piece I need to understand better.
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When PPP is dialed-up (using standard Apple internal modem) there's a UDP
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socket generated by configd once each second. I don't yet have details on
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what data, if any, might be sent or received and I'm about to look into
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that. But it creates and closes the socket once each second.
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Does anyone have any idea of what this might be doing ?? I tried turning
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off PPP LCP echo and that made no difference. It doesn't happen except
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when PPP is dialed up. And it's coming from configd, not lookupd.
LCP is not UDP, so that wont be it.
I expect it's related to the reachability parts of configd. Maybe it's
trying to make sure the connection is still there.
I would really like to know what the packet looks like. Where it's
addressed and what the payload is.
...Duane
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