On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 03:29:43PM +0200, Brandon Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks > > I am looking to start a discussion about dial-up on SME. As some you > have found out (the hard) - SME dial-up seems to be irratic!
No, it's not erratic. It is doing exactly what is being requested (and checking the log files will confirm this). Your machines are looking to make external connections and the SME server is set for dial-on-demand. As Charlie and I have both stated, dial-on-demand is not ideal for countries which have flagfalls on dialouts. There is no model which satisfies all charging regimes and there is certainly work which can be done to improve it for flagfall charging areas. > [...] > The problem as I understand is not just from SME side but client side > you have problems (Windows 98 dns queries, Antivirus updates, etc) - how > can we control these apps from triggering dial-ups? Your best approach is to tune diald. There are four examples in the existing configuration (continuous, long, medium, short). You can extrapolate from those to build any behaviour you desire. One behaviour which may be appropriate is to always keep the link down and only bring it up at scheduled intervals. I did something like this with Stephen Noble some time back. All of this is possible with diald. To state the obvious "RTFM" :-) Also, are all of your Win98 boxen configured with DHCP so that they use the SME Server as their nameserver? If not, you are asking for extra dialouts - we _strongly_ recommend DHCP configuration (as does Microsoft). Gordon -- Gordon Rowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Director, Engineering Network Server Solutions Group http://www.e-smith.com/ Mitel Networks Corporation http://www.mitel.com/ -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
