On 9 Jan 2005, at 00:11, Martes Wigglesworth wrote:
From: Martes Wigglesworth <martes.wigglesworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Christian Hiris <4711@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "heath, Chia Hui Chen" <heath0504@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Viable FreeBSD Network Access Server projects...?
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 00:59:56 +0300
Also, to supply, 56K service, would I be able to use the multi-modem
approach, or do I need to have the DSL with digital "modems" and all
that jazz? I am reading about the digital "RAS" setups, and all the
info sites that I am using seem to fall off, just after the analog
explanations. They seem to have a good definition of the RAS system
however, they fail to demonstrate how one may build one, using the
digital cards, to service analog dialup traffic.
It's perfectly possible - in fact I did exactly this at my first ISP,
Pavilion Internet in Brighton, 10 years ago. Multiple serial boards are
available, and just look like several /dev/tty connections. Set them up
to run PPP, and put a modem on each of them and you're going. It looks
ludicrous (we resorted to velcro-ing the dial-up modems to the wall of
the machine room), but yes, it does work.
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