On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Brandon Friedman wrote:
> I am looking to start a discussion about dial-up on SME. We've had it before. > As some you have found out (the hard) - SME dial-up seems to be irratic! You didn't present evidence for that before, and you haven't done it now. > Firstly I would like to find as much as possible about diald? > Also are there any alternates? We've been there before too. No, there is no real alternative, other than a permanent connection, or a periodic connection at regularly scheduled intervals - and diald can handle those just fine as well. > To give you an idea of the problem, here is a report from our > dial-up/auth server on 1 of hour SME server: > > Calls = 639, Time online = 51:20:50, 55MB in, 13MB out > Cnt Dialed From Cnt Dialed From Cnt Dialed From > 639 > > As you can see there have been 639 calls in the last 8 days!!!! Seem > excessive? No, it is probably doing exactly what it is being asked to do. -- Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lead Product Developer Network Server Solutions Group http://www.e-smith.com/ Mitel Networks Corporation http://www.mitel.com/ Phone: +1 (613) 592 5660 or 592 2122 Fax: +1 (613) 592 1175 -- 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