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Title: Dialup Interval
Post by: CB_Onyx on June 21, 2001, 12:55:49 PM

E-Smith on a 64k ISDN line.
After fresh installation seems to make a connection through ISDN every 5 minutes,
even when there seems to be no activity on my internal network.

Does e-smith automaticly make a connection to internet and if so where can i set the interval. Or even better can i set it to make connection only on demand from my internal network.

I only want to use it as a gateway and proxy. for now that is  ;-).

Title: Re: Dialup Interval
Post by: Jonathan Allen on June 25, 2001, 06:32:23 AM

I've been having a similar problem, but with a normal V.90 line -- i can't seem to make it wait for a dial tone before it tries to dial.  I looked up the command in my modem book, and the command they say to put in the modem initialization string is just a 'W', so i tried to add that to the phone number, but e-smith-manager told me that was an invalid phone number.  My server was dialing so much I finally had to unplug it until I can find out how to make it wait for a dial tone.

Any ideas?

Jonathan AllenCB_Onyx wrote:
>
> E-Smith on a 64k ISDN line.
> After fresh installation seems to make a connection through
> ISDN every 5 minutes,
> even when there seems to be no activity on my internal network.
>
> Does e-smith automaticly make a connection to internet and if
> so where can i set the interval. Or even better can i set it
> to make connection only on demand from my internal network.
>
> I only want to use it as a gateway and proxy. for now that
> is  ;-).

Title: Re: Dialup Interval
Post by: Paul on June 26, 2001, 07:47:53 AM

CB_Onyx wrote:
>
> E-Smith on a 64k ISDN line.
> After fresh installation seems to make a connection through
> ISDN every 5 minutes,
> even when there seems to be no activity on my internal network.

What are your connection policies?

http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/4.1/configexternal.dialup.html
 
What email retrieval mode are you using?

> Does e-smith automaticly make a connection to internet and if
> so where can i set the interval. Or even better can i set it
> to make connection only on demand from my internal network.

Yes, e-smith will automatically establish connections to the internet for outbound (allowed) tcp/ip traffic from the e-smith server or local network.  

Are you running a ntp time server on your network? (Note that the e-smith server has the ability to be a time server client itself.)

You can determine if the outbound traffic is being generated by one of your workstations or the e-smith server by disconnecting the lan.

Paul