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Re: Diald dials all the time



On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Will Lowe wrote:

 : On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote:
 : 
 : > Do you have any Windows stations on your LAN?  What happens when you click
 : > "network neighborhood?". It is probably Win95 doing it. Block the netbios
 : > traffic from the outside world with ipfwadm rules.
 : 
 : Hmm.  Yes,  this is part of the problem.  "man ipfwadm" lists the "-P
 : protocol" option,  where the supported protocols are "icmp,  tcp,  udp,
 : or all".  Doesn't netbios use ipx?

NetBIOS can use NetBEUI, TCP/IP, or IPX.  On Win95 boxes it defaults to
using NetBEUI, but may use IPX if the IPX stack is installed (which it
is by default)

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