WinGate Timeline question

[2CTCSAOL]

Greetings all!

I am currently using WinGate 8.0.5.
My timeline is currently set up to record the last 30 days of activity and to purge activity older than 30 days each morning.
My DHCP server on the other hand is set up to expire leases every 7 days (see where I'm going?)

This results in each of my users showing up several times on the timeline under several different IP addresses.
What I'm wondering is if there is a way to group the timeline entries by user name rather than listing each IP the user accesses from.

This is not a show stopper by any means but it would certainly be convenient.

Thanks!

[adrien]

Hi

sorry, there's no way to change grouping in the timeline display.

I am curious as to why different IPs are actually handed out though. Even though the DHCP lease may be 7 days, windows DHCP clients (and most others I believe) will actually renew the lease at half the lease duration (e.g. after 3 1/2 days), and should be given a renewed lease with the same IP address. So actually it should be rare that an IP changes. Unless these machines are being turned off for long periods?

Regards

Adrien

[2CTCSAOL]

The majority of my clients are wireless users which take their laptops home every day.
I can only assume when they shut down their computers it releases the IP and they get a new one the next day.
Thanks for the reply though, it never hurts to ask :)

[adrien]

Hi

even releasing the lease it should still remember it in WinGate, and give the same one back the next day.

Do the leases in the WinGate DHCP tab show as expired, or just released?

You may need to increase the lease duration that you assign to cover the over-night when the clients are gone. Even then it by default remembers the lease for another 1 day (can be overridden in registry) before it is cleaned up.

it's in the registry

32 bit Windows: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Qbik Software\WinGate\DHCP
64 bit Windows: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\WOW6432Node\Qbik Software\WinGate\DHCP

the value name is "CleanupExpiredLeasesAfter" REG_DWORD, it's the number of seconds to retain the lease information after it's expired.

Regards

Adrien