[ILUG] Why is Indigo sending me igmp packets ????

[Niall O Broin]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 12:34:13PM +0000, Glen Gray wrote:

> Seems that the dial-in server for indigo is sending me multicast
> broadcasts. I don't know much about igmp data but I presume it's router
> specific stuff. Why are they sending this info to me.
> 
> This is basically why my ppp connection no longer times out on idle.
> It's never idle anymore. Every 30 secs or so I receive igmp data from
> ts11.dublin.indigo.ie (or what ever server I've dialed into).

FWIW a friend of mine had the same problem last week with Indigo using ISDN
- when he used the 1891 the server kept sending him LCP packets so the link
never came down from idleness. When he used an 01 number that Indigo support
gave him he didn't get the problem.


Niall