Questions:

[Nev]

Hi all,

Two things:

1\ How can I prevent NAT activity from holding a connection, one site has a 3 minute timer on the dial up and without any clients connected or applications open, _JUST_firewall_traffic_ it can sit for hours without disconnecting.

I thought the answer was to apply a minimum security policy to the dialer 'User must be assumed' but this had no affect on this site at least, whereas in others that have a 'public' interface taking web hits all the time it stopped the random dialing problem 100%. The system in question is WinMe WG 5.22 & KAV 1.2x.

2\ A new customer has an old ISDN which the clients accross offices access a intranet somewhere. From initial testing the clients can use both IE for the old intranet with Netscape / Messenger they also have simultaneous WWW / eMail respectively via Wingate, despite the gateway pointing to the ISDN router it works well [so far].

However the Wingate machine uses the web / eMail via proxy / Wingate aok, until IE attempts to access the old ISDN / gateway, then all ISDN traffic is halted but WWW traffic / eMail via Netscape is aok.

The ISDN login fails as it attempts to socket the active internet connection on Wingate [not via Wingate but directly to the active connection], ignoring the ISDN gateway. As the supplier stipulates the properties 'automatically detect' proxy settings _must_ be checked and of course it's DNS servers are elsewhere in the organisation and not on the internet at all.

Would it work if I pointed IE at the gateway / router 192.168.??.97 and ignored port?

Help very appreciated.

Thank you.

Nev.

[Pascal]

1\ How can I prevent NAT activity from holding a connection, one site has a 3 minute timer on the dial up and without any clients connected or applications open, _JUST_firewall_traffic_ it can sit for hours without disconnecting.

Idle traffic on the dialer might affect this. If you look in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Qbik Software\WinGate\Dialer there should be a value for "IdleTrafficLevel".

'Keep alives' and misc traffic might keep the link up. The Dialer takes the idle traffic over the timer interval into consideration when it checks if the connection is active or not. Setting the idle traffic level higher would mean more 'idle' traffic would be necessary to keep it alive.

Note, all usual warnings apply to editing the registry, etc. It will need a restart of the WinGate Engine.