[H-GEN] smoothwall - dial on demand

[Hilton Travis]

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On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 19:30, Hilton Travis wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 17:11, Mick Howe wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 13:57, you wrote:
> > > Hi Mick,
> > >
> > > I believe (not being a modem user myself) that the DoD function disables
> > > the "Connect" button, and relies on users generating traffic that will
> > > cause the dialup to be automagically started.  There are a few settings
> > > related to DoD (such as "Idle Timeout" and "DoD for DNS") that you may
> > > want to take a look at as well.
> > 
> > when dial on demand is ticked theThat is correct.  "Waiting" would be when XXX.  "Idle" will be when XXX. CONNECT/DISCONNECT buttons switch between 
> > waiting/idle.

:)  Oops - clicked on send before I checked this email!  :)

K.  When DoD is waiting to make a connection because the last "Idle
Timeout" expired, that button will display "Waiting" to indicate that
SmoothWall is waiting for traffic to cause the dialup to happen.  It
will then say "Connected" (or similar) when connected.  The only time
that "Idle" should appear on a DoD connection is if the "Maximum
Retries" has been exceeded.

If the modem config works normally without DoD, then bOrks when you
change to DoD (with the rest of the details unchanged), I'd suggest
checking the MD5 checksum of the downloaded ISO image and re-downloading
the SmoothWall GPL 0.9.9SE ISO if it is not correct.  Also, try a HTTP
install instead of a CD-install (have a look at
http://quarkau.go.dyndns.org for some info on this, and some other
stuff) in case the CD itself has karked it.

Regards,
HiltonT


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