Eddie Strohmier wrote:
>
> As far as hardware how many modems do you plan on running?
> Multiport cards like Rocketport are easy to configure and
> then there is cyclades but requires to the kernel to be
> recompiled. I have used both and the Rocketport ISA seems to
> be the more stable but cyclades PCI seems to have better
> port speeds.
>
> Eddie Strohmier
>
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> > Ted Hilts
> > Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 12:13 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Dial Up to a Linux Box
> >
> >
> > 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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Eddie:
The old compaq computer comes with a modem fitted to a special slot.
You mentioned "Rocketport ISA", could you give me specifics regarding
how to obtain this card.
I'm a bit confused, do I need a special card for this purpose (don't
plan on having multiple lines right away anyway) or will the existing
modem card on the old compaq work. I've got 4 of these old compaqs and
one is running Linux Red Hat 6.0 so I know that the modem on these old
machines works under Linux and so also do the network cards. So I
figured I could do a similar thing with another compaq - basically the
same hardware. Regarding the modem card - or that's what you did. You
seem to be suggesting I could use the single existing modem card. I am
hoping to use the compaq as a network front end for dial in purposes. I
already have a firewall and internet access gateway Linux machine. I
decided to use a separate machine like the compaq because I was told
that PPP can only work well on Linux from one physical port. I am told
there are problems having two simulaneous PPP sessions on two different
ports. The slowest port dominates the rate of both. So, I figured,
since I can't simultaneously use the same physical port to both connect
to the interenet via a dial up line and to a separate telephone
connection for dial into the network, then a separate telephone line is
required for both. One for internet connection via dial up to the ISP
and one for dial into the network. My choice was to either have a dial
in and an internet connection dial out to ISP on the same machine or to
have the internet connection on one machine as it now is and the dial in
on a separate machine to avoid problems with PPP operation. Physically
I could have both the internet telephone line and the dial in telephone
line going to two separate modems on the same machine but this looked
like it would bring on other problems. That is why I settled for 1
telephone line for the Internet Gateway machine that allows all local
network machines to access the Internet through the gateway machine
using a single telephone line, and a second (the old compaq) with a
another telephone line and modem that would be used to accept local
network dial in from a remote location. Does my reasoning make any
sense?
If I go ahead and use the existing modem card on the old compaq (I am
planning to use for dial up functionality) then I guess I would not have
to pursue the "Rocketport ISA" solution but then I would be limited to 1
dial in access. For comparison purposes I looked at the compaq running
Red Hat 6.0 as it is used as a software evaluation machine and it could
not handle any more loading as it is very slow dealing with modem
activity with all the existing software running on it. I figured that
the other compaq machine that I will set up for dial in network access
will be limited to just software that deals with that functionality as
well (of course) as accesss to the other network machines. So with a
separate dial in machine which I know will run under Linux the load
should be light if I keep the software installation down to a minimum.
Any further comments would be appreciated. If you feel I have missed
something here or have misinformation I would appreciate your input.
Bye-thanks_TED
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