Does WinGate 6.0.1 use internet without permission?

[S. Konin]

I am using WinGate 6.0.1 trial. When Engine is running on the server I see the slight but permanent net activity (packets exchange) on external net. I mean standard Windows icon in task bar "with two computers". I see this activity even all WinGate services are disabled (and I see nothing about this activity in WinGate information windows - no active clients, no firewall messages in that time!). There is no net activity only when WinGate Engine is not running (stoped). What is the reason? Our firm pays for internet traffic and if we purchase WinGate license we shell pay for internet more then before!

[erwin]

Hi there

Try turning off the Monitor for Dead Gateways option on the general tab of the ENS config to see if this will stop this activity from happening on the external NIC.

This will not affect the ability to connect to the Internet, but will hopefully stop this activity you see.

Regards
Erwin

[S. Konin]

Exactly so!
Thank you very much.

From Russia - with gratitude!

Sergey Konin

[adrien]

More information on this.

Monitoring for dead gateways works in the following way.

1. once per second an ARP lookup packet is sent to each known gateway (provided such gateway is accessed through an interface which is an ethernet adapter, e.g. not dialup)

2. If no ARP response is received within 2 seconds, then the gateway is deemed unavailable.

If gateway monitoring is disabled, all gateways are deemed available.

This then flows through to how connections are made (specifically dialups).

For instance if you have dialups enabled, but also a default gateway out a LAN adapter (maybe you have a dialup as backup), then if the main gateway becomes unavailable, the dialup will be used.

If a service in WinGate specifies that gateways be used in priority order as failover, then WinGate will use the first available gateway in this list.

In this way you get a default failover behaviour in the case where services do not specify gateways, and a specific failover behaviour where specified in a service.

Adrien