Charlie Brady wrote:
> 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.
Yes and it's still a problem!
>>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.
>
Ok Charlie I will send you log files if you like? Offlist?
>>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.
The problem is that diald is being triggered by every DNS request on the network....
Now you can't tell that I need to configure 100 odd workstation to make Norton and
Windows behaves?
This sort of control must come from the gateway!
>>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.
No.....definately not...what I have done now is disable after-hours and
weekend internet/e-mail retrieval...will see how it goes!
We have implemented dialmon, the monitor the connections, we are also
logging the dial-up session at our ISP!
If we could control dial-on-demand DNS requests, that would be useful!
BTW What is the diald website?
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