I have been working with a consortium of ruarl telephone companies around
South Dakota. I have been allowed to provide local dial access to their
customers. They bought and installed a PM2ER thats connected to our ISP
via frame relay.
The inevitable has happened - one of my competitors has figured out that
this consortium has to provide equal access under the regulations of the
states Utilities Commission. This other ISP now wants to be able to
market their services to the customers of these rural telcos.
(Put on my consultant hat - I consult for the consortium of telcos)
As I see it the other ISP should be able to simply connect to the frame
relay switch and if the PM2ER is configured correctly then any customers
that they sign up should be routed to their location. It seems so easy -
but thats what routers are for right? Anyone see any problems or
conflicts that might arise here with the addition of a totally seperate
bunch of IP addresses?
The PM2ER is currently using Radius and doing dynamic addressing -
using a DEFAULT entry in the users file. If this other ISP wants to
do dynamic addressing is there any way to set it up so that they have a
DEFAULT entry of thier own so that their users are routed to the right
frame connection??
Pat McClanahan pat@sodak.net
SoDak Net info@sodak.net
South Dakota's Largest Internet Provider www.sodak.net