The Rocketport is a multiport serial card that will support
4, 8, 16, or I believe they have up to 32. I used to use it
for dialin for an ISP I once ran but in your case you can
use your internal modem as long as it is supported by RH
6.0. Just use inittab that I mentioned in the first e-mail I
sent. Need to find what serial port you are on and get
inittab to respawn the modem with the:
s0:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -D /dev/ttyS1
or whatever serial port it is on. Configure your
/etc/mgetty+sendfax/login.config as I mentioned and also you
options
files as I mentioned and it all should work. The options I
mentioned and also ones I missed that you will need are
these:
asyncmap 0
netmask 255.255.254.0
proxyarp
lock
crtscts
modem
I think I missed the netmask 255.255.254.0 option. login is
ok to add but is repetitious as it is included in
login.conf.
Check this site out as it covers the basics behind the setup
of a ppp server.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO/ppp-server.html
The rocketport card can be obtained at www.rocketport.com or
I still
have my old ISA one that attaches to a 16 port board, (I
have both the card and the 16 port board) if you want them
send me an email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can get them for
you cheap. You attach your external modems with DB25 male to
DB25 male connectors. Let me know if your interested. It
works fine. I used it with RH 6.0 and setup was very easy
compared to the cyclades that we obtained later with
required kernel recompile. Here is a pic of the actual card:
http://www.comtrol.com/maps/boardmap.htm
and on the right hand side of this page is an example of the
16 port
board:
http://www.comtrol.com/gfx/rprmfam.jpg
(These are comtrol products...)
So the key files to setup are:
/etc/inittab
/etc/mgetty+sendfax/login.conf
/etc/ppp/options
/etc/ppp/options.ttySx
This should get you started. If you have any trouble throw
me an e-mail
and hopefully I can help.
Eddie Strohmier
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Ted Hilts
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 1:36 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Dial Up to a Linux Box
>
>
> 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-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [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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