Hi,
the Internet only mode is currently a switch which has to be set clientside, manually. Would be nice, to include a server pushed setting, which allows central management of this switch.
Thanks 
Are you saying the setting is not being sent to the client via the server gui? Because there is clearly a separate setting if you specify the client in the settings. Ie, I tried changing one client to “Connect as Internet/active client if connected to as local/passive client” under Internet/active client menu and that setting stayed on that client only.
I dont quite understood.
I read, that you talking about the
Setting, right? But thats not the setting I meant.
This is used if I want local net clients act as internet clients if I get it right.
But not the setting I want
Is this not the behavior you want though? Force a client to run in internet mode even if its connected to lan?
@bedna I think in that case the client will still try to find a local server first, and only then after it fails it will connect in “internet mode”. You can force it to not even bother looking for a local servers, but you have to do it manually on each client AFAIK.
So I’m also interested in OP’s problem solution.
I checked some things.
The mentioned setting is called internet_connect_always. Looking at the client side, I found void InternetClient::operator()(void), which does:
- Checking
internet_only_mode(which is applied via the cmd parameter) - This is not enabled by default, so now the Client immediately starts to wait for local servers!
- After timeout or finding local server, it checks again if it should connect to internet server instead.
So, I am able to say: Connect to internet even if you find a local server.
But I want to skip local lookup completely and start internet mode asap, because I know, some clients NEVER will find local servers, they’re internet only (which currently only be can enabled manually).
Looking at the code, no config option allows that currently (2.4)