PM2ER and multiple ISP (fwd)
Brian 'MegaZone' Bikowicz ((no email))
Wed, 18 Oct 1995 13:20:25 -0700 (PDT)
Once upon a time Pat McClanahan shaped the electrons to say...
>(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??
I don't think this can be done:
1. PMs only have *one* dynamic address range.
2. We only contact the primary RADIUS server, if it answers yes *or* no, we
don't try anyone else. So we won't ask the other server.
3. You might hack Radius to maintain an address pool on it's end and use
Framed-Address = to feed it to the PM - but back to problem 2.
4. Your routing is going to get weird.
If you can use one Radisu server for both ISPs, fine (if #3 is hacked). But
who is going to run the Radius server? And who is going to maintain the
routing on the PMs?
They weren't designed for this kind of thing.
-MZ
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