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blase · Jan 19, 2003, 02:54 PM

Ever since installing Jaguar I've noticed a lot of chatter in the logs of my firewall. A picture is below. Is this the rendezvous networking trying to discover devices? How do I turn this off?

BTW: the iBook sits on a switch just in front of the firewall and thus receives a public IP, just as the red port of the firewall does. Occasionally devices from behind the firewall will talk to the iBook (on Web, Samba, FTP....) but this communication doesn't seem related to the chatter generated by the laptop.

Millennium · Jan 19, 2003, 03:20 PM

I'm not sure if this is actually Rendezvous, but if it's not then it's something very similar. It's definitely something called the Service Location Protocol, which sounds like a Rendezvous thing (though in the things I've found on the Net I have seen no mention of it). However, I have a little trouble believing that Apple would be boneheaded enough to not let Rendezvous through its firewall, as it does for things like DNS. Particularly since, if I'm not mistaken, Rendezvous piggybacks on DNS, and DNS does not use that protocol.

Something doesn't smell right, but I wouldn't go disabling Rendezvous just yet.

blase · Jan 19, 2003, 03:31 PM

Appreciate the response with the service information...

The thing is I don't need any of the rendezvous "tech" on my iBook. Internally I run my own NAT, DHCP, etc and externally my ISP is going doing the same via DHCP. As far as network services and assignment this just needs to be a client. I understand rendezvous to be some sort of device self discovery and network conf protocol and that's not needed here.

Man I hate typing "rendezvous"

legacyb4 · Jan 20, 2003, 12:57 AM

10:1 says you have either Apple or Windows filesharing on...

Turn both of them off and see what happens.

Cheers.

Originally posted by blase:
Ever since installing Jaguar I've noticed a lot of chatter in the logs of my firewall. A picture is below. Is this the rendezvous networking trying to discover devices? How do I turn this off?

BTW: the iBook sits on a switch just in front of the firewall and thus receives a public IP, just as the red port of the firewall does. Occasionally devices from behind the firewall will talk to the iBook (on Web, Samba, FTP....) but this communication doesn't seem related to the chatter generated by the laptop.

blase · Feb 2, 2003, 10:51 AM

I turned off all services on the iBook yet it persists. I was using Windows File Sharing, Web Sharing and FTP.

The previous poster mentioned that under 10.1 it would probably fix it. I never saw this behavior in the firewall logs when I was running 10.1....this seems like some sort of 10.2 thing...?

BTP · Feb 2, 2003, 11:26 AM

He wasn't saying 10.1, he was saying 10:1, as in odds are 10:1 (ten to one).

If Appletalk was/is on I have read that it is a very "chatty" protocal and will do this. Double check the Appletalk tab in Networking if you are still getting a lot of traffic.

Aslo, 10.2 won't be the cause of the traffic, but some serive that may have been turned on or that didn't exist pre-10.2.

blase · Feb 2, 2003, 01:04 PM

I see now what that poster was referring to. I checked the Appletalk and it is not active.

My install of 10.2 was clean, I did not do an upgrade I wiped the drive first.

Don Pickett · Feb 2, 2003, 02:41 PM

Same issue here with 10.2.3. Appletalk and Windows file sharing are all off. I haven't been able to track it down and have come to accept that it isn't doing anything nasty, even if it is weird.

blase · Feb 17, 2003, 01:25 AM

ARGH!!!! My new Powerbook G4 is doing the same thing. I also noticed that the pic I linked in the first post doesn't work anymore I'll get another one up, as it's less obvious what is going on without an example from the log.

Why does my laptop hit my firewall so much?????? Leave the poor old Aptiva alone little thing.

Now running 10.2.4, and said I didn't want to use Rendezvous under iChat. Is there a place I can turn Rendezvous off???? Or is it just always there?

rytc · Feb 17, 2003, 02:45 AM

Originally posted by blase:
Why does my laptop hit my firewall so much?????? Leave the poor old Aptiva alone little thing.

Maybe the Aptiva is giving him **** and OS X won't stand for it......or maybe you've discovered life in silico - once life evolves it can be pretty impossible to get rid off. However ever since humans evolved destroying other life forms has never been difficult......
cheers Ry

blase · Feb 17, 2003, 02:53 AM

But the Aptiva is running the goodness of Linux. Isn't that supposed to provide good computing karma and ward off weirdness?

jaxxe · Feb 17, 2003, 06:41 AM

I was wondering if unchecking everything in directory access which is not pertinent might do the trick.

blase · Feb 18, 2003, 09:43 PM

Where is this directory services setting to be found?

dreilly1 · Feb 18, 2003, 09:47 PM

I only notice this when I try to connect to a server. Apparently, whenever that dialog box is up Rendesvous goes nuts.