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Posted by on October 19, 2006, 8:10 am
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options > Hi kingthorin,
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> Oh my. Yes. Finally. You are someone who helps answer the question.
>
> Instead of a cheap off-topic editorial on paranoia, you bared your brains
> and bothered to come up with a possible answer to what amounts to a very
> simple on-topic technical question. Thank you so very much. It's people
> like you that make the Internet so helpful to everyone!
No worries.
> I found all the settings you spoke of in my router.
> - I aimed the browser at the router's IP address
> - I logged in as the administrator of the router
> - I went to "Setup" "Basic Setup" and switched the default from
> - "Keep Alive: Redial Period = 30 sec"
> - to the new setting of:
> - "Connect on Demand: Max Idle Time = 1 min"
You may want to increase the Max Idle Time a bit. It's pretty simple to
be idle for one minute while you read a web page, news article, if you
answer the phone etc. You don't want to be hammering your ISPs
authentication server everytime you're idle for 1 min.
> Hopefully, a positive result of this technical test of your hypothesis will
> answer the question of how to force the router to dial into the PPPoE
> account when I power the modem back on after an evening's shutdown.
>
> I'm not quite sure if I fully understand this setting though.
> Is this a correct explaination of the "Connect on Demand" setting?
>
> - Assume the DSL modem is shut down for, say, overnight.
> - Assume the router was left powered on; as was the computer.
> - The goal is to power the modem and attempt a web connection on the
> computer and the hope is that this will cause the router to re-initiate the
> PPPoE connection to the ISP.
No it has nothing to do with powering down the modem, you can leave the
modem up. Your router will only be assigned a IP address by your ISP
when it has a valid PPPoE connection. The "Connect On Demand" and "Max
Idle Time" settings tell the router to well simply connect when there
is demand (ie: PPPoE connect/authenticate....which results in you
getting an IP) and then drop the connection (ie: PPPoE disconnect)
after your connection has been idle for x number of minutes. Everything
can remain powered on, if you have no "demand" overnight then you
should exceed the time you've observed and when you establish "connect
on demand" in the morning should attain a different IP. Make sense?
> I'm confused about the "max idle time" though. Does that mean that it could
> be as long as one minute (given a max idle time setting of "1 min") before
> the router initiates the PPPoE connection?
No, Max Idle Time is going to be the time the router takes before
dropping the connection. Like this:
1) Set down at your computer, open IE and try to hit
http://www.google.com, the router sees this as a request for something
outside of your local network and therefore initiates your PPPoE
connection to your ISP and gets you a public IP address.
2) You can now surf, email, etc at your leasure.
3) Once you stop surfing etc (no further request to things outside your
local network) the router will wait for a full minute of inactivity and
then disconnect (drop your PPPoE connection).
Note: Windows Update, MSN Messenger (any instand messenging program)
etc will likely cause a steady stream of traffic and never let you
become "Idle", you'll need to make sure they are disabled when you're
done online or configured so that they aren't doing their own 'keep
alive' functions, etc....
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