User guide

Using Internet Setup
170 Check Point Safe@Office User Guide
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When no higher
priority connection
is available
Select this option to specify that the appliance should only establish a
connection in the following cases:
• When no other connection exists, and the Safe@Office
appliance is not acting as a Backup appliance.
If another connection opens, the appliance will disconnect.
For information on configuring the appliance as a Backup or
Master, see Configuring High Availability on page 281.
• When there is interesting traffic (that is, traffic for which no
static route is defined).
On outgoing activity Select this option to specify that the appliance should only establish a
connection if no other connection exists, and there is outgoing activity
(that is, packets need to be transmitted to the Internet).
If another connection opens, or if the connection times out, the appliance
will disconnect.
Idle timeout Type the amount of time (in minutes) that the connection can remain idle.
Once this period of time has elapsed, the appliance will disconnect.
The default value is 1.
Delay before
connecting
Type the amount of time (in seconds) that the appliance should wait to re-
connect to the Internet, if the connection goes down.
If you have an unstable Internet connection that tends to go down and
then return almost immediately, this setting allows you to avoid
unnecessary and costly dialing during outage periods, by deferring re-
connection for a few seconds.
The default value is 0.
Obtain IP address
automatically (using
DHCP)
Clear this option if you do not want the Safe@Office appliance to obtain
an IP address automatically using DHCP.