Disabling Automatic Internet Dialup
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Microsoft Windows operating systems offer a networking feature that is convenient for users who use a modem to connect to the Internet: any TCP/IP request that occurs on the system activates an automatic modem dialing program. This is helpful for users who want to connect quickly as they launch a web browser or email client application.
This convenience feature is unnecessary on systems that use a client/server application to access an InterBase server on a local network. The TCP/IP service request that the client invokes triggers the Windows automatic modem dialer. This interferes with quick network connections from client to server.
This section describes several methods to suppress the automatic modem dial feature of Windows operating systems. No more than one of these methods should be necessary to accomplish the networking configuration you need.