Constant Broadcast Traffic using Wingate VPN 2.0

[trioptek]

Hello,

My business associate and I just recently upgraded and started testing Wingate VPN 2.0. We used the previous 1.2 version with much success, but the version 2.0 seems to have a very strange issue. Once installed, we have noticed a non-stop amount of broadcast traffic coming from the machine in which WingateVPN is installed. There appears to be no way to stop this traffic - even turning off all services has no effect, it continues to cause traffice. The only way to solve this issue is to uninstall Wingate VPN 2.0. I would like to find a resolution to this because other than this one problem, the software seems to work well. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have tried disabling just about every feature in Wingate VPN with no luck.

Thanks in advance.

[genie]

What kind of traffic did you see there?

[trioptek]

Genie,

It is hard to tell what kind of traffic - I haven't put a sniffer on it yet. It just appears to be similar to the way the old NetBEUI protocol used to constantly broadcast address information, but it appears to be much more frequent (about once per second). As I stated above, the traffic ONLY appears when Wingate VPN 2.0 is installed, and there appears to be no way to stop it, except to uninstall Wingate VPN 2.0. The number of bytes transmitted from the server over about an 8 hour period was over 1.5MB of "something".

[genie]

Well, connected VPN tunnel does transfer quite a lot of info - keep-alives for the tunnel itself, broadcasts from the connected networks, etc - can you capture the traffic and see what kind of data is being transferred?

[Pascal]

If you open Extended Networking you will see an option called "Monitor for dead gateways". This is ticked by default. It checks to see if your default gateway is available, so it can drop back to alternative gateways if one becomes unavailable.

If you untick this option, that traffic should disappear.