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Rebecca and Rowland wrote:
> 
> Alan Guest <alan@macropolis.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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> [snip]
> > Well, after all this discourse, I tried switching it so that it didn't
> > just load when needed and it caused all manner of problems. I'm not
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My 8100 will similarly go through PPP dialling during start up if I have 
had a lost connection or needed to reboot BEFORE re-establishing my 
normal network connections (I am not allowed by my employer to be 
simultaneously connected to company network AND the internet - so I am 
regularly changing TCP IP address and network protocol).  Several 
applications can make TCP/IP calls to the operating system and if ANY of 
these loads early during startup, the TCP/IP stack is forced to make an 
"enquiry" of the network.  Itn my case at least, is these so-called enquiries 
that causes PPP to dial out.  I have found that if I time it right I CAN close 
the dialling out PPP connection by hitting the cancel button as soon as PPP 
starts to dial.  However the only way I have found to prevent the PPP 
dial-up occurring at all, is to hold down the space bar during start-up and 
use extensions manager to disable any extensions or applications which 
make TCP/IP calls.  (I believe Appletalk itself goes out over TCP/IP with 
sys 8 so YOU might need to disable the appletalk control panel as well as 
any e-mail programmes - which often sit in backgound looking out for 
incoming mail and regularly setting TCP IP calls off)

Better still is to start up with all extensions off and make your config 
changes to the appropriate control panels (these panels will tell you 
changes won't work until after re-boot but will usually still allow you to 
make them).

If this don't help - I tried!

Steve Parker
 steve@parkfish.demon.co.uk