Re: Soundmodem - suppresing initial xmit

["J. Lance Cotton" <joe@lightningflash.net>]

on 11/16/2007 10:48 AM Curt, WE7U said the following:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, don wrote:
> 
>> When I start soundmodem, it sends out several transmissions.
>> They are addressed to "QST-0" and identify my workstation.
>>
>> Is there a simple way to suppres these?  They are fairly long
>> and sometimes I just want to listen to packets (like on an APRS freq).
> 
> Just a guess (and I'm probably totally wrong on this), but do you
> have Samba configured on that machine?
> 
> I remember some people ended up with SMB broadcasts going out on
> that interface.  The fix was to tweak the Samba configuration so
> that it didn't use that networking interface.  By default Samba
> broadcasts on all interfaces as I recall.

That's right. Also, on many newer distributions, I've also found that the 
mDNS service (the generic name for Apple's "Bonjour" auto-discovery 
protocol) broadcasts on all interfaces, too.

-Lance KJ5O

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