Re: Help: Gnome Generated Network Traffic?

["Jesse D. Sightler" <jsight pair com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: George <jirka@5z.com>
To: gnome-list@gnome.org <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Date: Sunday, October 04, 1998 12:16 AM
Subject: Re: Help: Gnome Generated Network Traffic?


>On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 06:03:27PM -0700, Ryan Ware wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I appologise if this is a FAQ or in the mail archives, but I searched
>> through both.
>>
>> When panel starts up, it generates network traffic.  It also seems to do
>> this intermitently after start up.  (Is this due to CORBA?)  In any
>> case, is there a way to shut this off?  I use the demand feature of pppd,
>> so while I have panel running, pppd never disconnects.  I'm using Gnome
>> .30 compiled from source rpms.  TIA.
>
>network needs to be used ... but I think I know what the problem is ...
>Orbit is probably talking to the ip of the machine instead of using
>localhost/127.0.0.1 ... I can't remember any reasoning why one should not
>use localhost ... but I think connecting to the network ip is pretty bad
>(what if I disconnect and connect again)
>
>maybe I'm wrong and orbit does talk to localhost ... I dunno ...


I think you are probably wrong, as I use diald for demad dial and GNOME
panel never forces a connection here.