You can get most of what you need to know from the PPP HOWTO:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO/
It's been a while, but last I knew there were vendors still selling ISA
multiport serial cards. I recommend Cyclades for a start, their Linux
support dates back several years now and I had very good luck with one
of their cards after struggling for ages with a competing product.
Any standard modem should work just fine. I like U.S.Robotics (now
owned by 3com) but probably any reputable analog modem will work; just
be careful not to get a WinModem by mistake.
I don't know what you want Radius or Portslave for; can't comment on
those.
Ted Hilts wrote:
>
> I've just downloaded Portslave (from the original Portslave site) and
> Radius (from Livingston ftp site). Apparently, once Portslave is up and
> running it will set up the hardware to detect a ring, and then respond
> by getting user ID and PASSWORD and service required, after which it
> will pass this information on to a Radius daemon (which is apparently
> supposed to activate the requested service like ftp, telnet, etc.).
> This is all new to me (setting up a dial up server operation). Before I
> get started I would like opinions regarding the best way to do this
> whole thing. Also, does anyone know about the hardware side of this
> whole thing and which hardware for this purpose will run on Linux. I am
> thinking of setting up an old compaq i486 DX66 as the server for this
> whole thing (in which case the I/O cards will probably be older (ISA)
> and maybe not available?). Anyone know anything at all about any of this
> stuff? I'm open to alternative solutions. Also if there are HOWTO's
> (covering the complete scenario) on this subject would someone be kind
> enough to point me in their direction.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Bye-thanks_TED
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