RichardV
06-25-2004, 11:35 AM
Hello.
Does anybody know how to programmatically disable the WINS client under Windows CE?
We use RAS to dial into the public GPRS network using internal or external GPRS modems or mobile phones.
When I monitor the serial traffic between my Pocket PC and my GSM/GPRS modem I see a lot of UDP packets sent by the Pocket PC trying to find a WINS server after successfully dialing and connecting to the public GPRS network.
If the Pocket PC finds a server also the system time of the Pocket PC is synchronized.
We would like to disable this because we use only static IP addresses in our applications. So we don't need any DNS or WINS to resolve symbolic adresses.
We could ignore this traffic, but GPRS traffic is still quite expensive, and paying money for things you don't need (and don't want) is a bad thing.
I tried several settings in the RAS entry parameters, but none of these settings stopped the Pocket PC from sending the UDP packets to find a WINS server.
On Pocket PC 2003 there is additional traffic produced by IPV6 specific stuff (ISATAP, Teredo). I managed to stop this by looking what the IPV6tun tool changes in the registry and doing these patches programmatically.
But I still have no solution for stopping the WINS client.
I can not find any hints in the Internet or in the online help.
All information I found was related to the desktop versions of Windows.
Any ideas?? Thanks.
RichardV.
Does anybody know how to programmatically disable the WINS client under Windows CE?
We use RAS to dial into the public GPRS network using internal or external GPRS modems or mobile phones.
When I monitor the serial traffic between my Pocket PC and my GSM/GPRS modem I see a lot of UDP packets sent by the Pocket PC trying to find a WINS server after successfully dialing and connecting to the public GPRS network.
If the Pocket PC finds a server also the system time of the Pocket PC is synchronized.
We would like to disable this because we use only static IP addresses in our applications. So we don't need any DNS or WINS to resolve symbolic adresses.
We could ignore this traffic, but GPRS traffic is still quite expensive, and paying money for things you don't need (and don't want) is a bad thing.
I tried several settings in the RAS entry parameters, but none of these settings stopped the Pocket PC from sending the UDP packets to find a WINS server.
On Pocket PC 2003 there is additional traffic produced by IPV6 specific stuff (ISATAP, Teredo). I managed to stop this by looking what the IPV6tun tool changes in the registry and doing these patches programmatically.
But I still have no solution for stopping the WINS client.
I can not find any hints in the Internet or in the online help.
All information I found was related to the desktop versions of Windows.
Any ideas?? Thanks.
RichardV.