Regarding the loggoff problem, it will probably stay whether sify client or not. It's due to the fact that their 'heartbeat' function - which is a signal the client sends to a server so you stay onlie. Kind of keep-alive - is implemented using UDP packets which are lossy. So if they are lost or corrupted you get logged off.[/b]
--cweihrauch
Most of us on this forum had either deleted the heart beat program, or renamed it or blocked it using our firewall, in short stopped it from accessing the internet. We did this because we thought it solved our Auto-Log off problems and it did seem to do that. However going by the way the heart beat program which is called hbsbeat.exe under
Windows works, it appears we wouldn't have been able to stay online for more than 5 minutes by blocking it. But we were able to. And here's how it happened I think. Some forum members here had also recommended placing the HBS Server IP in the Trusted Zone of our firewalls with Medium Security setting (or something similar for firewalls other than ZA) which would essentially have allowed things like pings from that IP address (which are blocked otherwise by default). So I think when the Heart Beat program wasn't able to access its server what the server used to do, and probably still does, is send pings or other kinds of communication (data packets) to our machines to check if they are online.
So those having troubles with auto-log off could check their Trusted Zone to see if they have the HBS server IP still there because it looks like I have lost mine after a ZA upgrade and have to now enter it again
😛.
Also here are a couple of interesting things I found in some files in the Sify folder:-
[HBS]
ServerIP=202.144.xx.xx
Port=6776
Frequency=5
Flag=N
....from the file BBand.ini.
And....
November 26, 2004 18 20 15 Getting Renewal Details
November 26, 2004 18 20 15 HeartBeat not enabled
November 26, 2004 18 20 15 Opening homepage
...from the file debug.log.
Does this mean the heart beat function has been disabled from the Sify end? Friends what do your files say ?