Re: Help needed with NAT on Winroute Pro

["Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

> Hi Guys,
>
> I have Winroute Pro installed on my PC at home and it is configured to
Dial
> On Demand to BTI Surftime at the times that Surftime is available and
> disconnect after 10 mins of inactivity.

Great, isn't it :)

> This works fine from any other PC on the LAN including the iPaq.
However,
if
> I am using my main machine (the one with the ISDN card and Winroute
Pro)
it
> doesnt dial on demand.

This is because the machine you are cannot have a default gateway set of
itself, and therefore traffic cannot "route" into it.

The best way around it is to configure the main machine's internet settings
to "use a dial-up connection" and "connect
automatically", and set it to the
same DUN connection that is used for the Surftime Connection.

WRP is smart enough to spot the connection lifting, and flag the interface
as "up" within seconds.

> Whenever any machine causes it to connect the dial log shows....
> UDP packet 192.168.0.1:53 -> 192.16.20211:53 initiated dialing
> ...which I understand is the DNS lookup being passed to the nameserver
> (ns.EU.net).
>
> What really confuses me is why MY machine doesnt fire up the dialer,
(is
it
> because I am using the Winroute PC as a normal machine as well?) and
why
> does my machine sometimes connect with the same message even when
no-one
is
> using any of the PC's in the house. When it does this it stays online
for
> 10mins then drops the connection (although one time it was on for 34
mins).

You can define a rule for the outgoing side of the interface which is set
to
"allow" all traffic, but "log to file, log to window"
should give a bit more
info about what is lifting the line, and why.

> Does Winroute keep a local copy of DNS on the machine and periodically
check
> for updates?

It has a built in DNS, which will be refreshed every now and then.

Ian.