Optimizing External Network Detection

To set fast detection, in the Location Awareness Settings window, click Advanced. The Location Awareness - Fast Detection of External Locations window opens.

These settings are optional. Their only purpose is to identify external networks quickly (queried locally before contacting a remote service).

• Regard wireless networks as external - Wireless networks you define here are internal. Of the client's wireless IP address is from one of these networks, it is considered internal. All other wireless networks are considered external.

• Consider DNS suffixes which do not appear in the following list as external - Define DNS suffixes that Remote Access Clients identifies as internal. If you select this option, make sure to define all internal DNS suffixes.

• Remember previously detected external networks. Networks previously identified by the client as external can be cached (on the client side), so future encounters with them result in immediate detection.

Selecting one or more of these options enhances the performance of location awareness.

The location detection mechanism will go through the different settings and stop once a match to "external" is found; otherwise it will move on to the next setting, until eventually it reaches either of the last two decisive tests (RAS or DC), the only reliable tests on the basis of which to conclude "inside."