On Wed, 02 May 2001 23:44:03 Ted Hilts wrote:
>Part 2:
>Does anyone know of or has used a hardware solution that will
>automatically handle 2 to 4 dial up connections and route them to a
>network hub or LAN connection point so the dial up connection occurs
>transparent to the network (LAN) computers. This means that if a dial
>up occurs to this device the entire process of interconnection to the
>local network is transparent to any other machine on the network and so
>connected there these remote dial up machines become part of the network
>collection of machines?????
A Linux box configured as a PPP server equipped with a multiport serial card
should do the trick. A Google search for "multiport serial card Linux" might
be a good place to start. Cyclades cards seem to be mentioned in any of the
search results.
>Part 3: (two questions)
>Where is recent HOWTO information on configuring a Linux machine, both
>hardware and software to be the kind of interface as explained in Part 2
>above and does this require more power than available in a dedicated
>486x66 machine configured just for that purpose????
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO/index.html
Tony
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