Portmaster PM2ER questions. (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Tue, 19 Nov 1996 16:55:46 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Andres Maduro shaped the electrons to say...
>1.- Can I configure the PortMaster for using 2 DNS Servers ? I can only see
>that one entry can be entered.

set nameserver 2 x.x.x.x

>2.- Since we are using the Portmaster as a router, how can I monitor the packe
>traffic entering the Modems and hardwire link.

If they are dialin/out links then RADIUS accounting with have input and
output octects.

If they are hardwired, all you can do is 'show s#' and do the math on the
counters. (I believe you can get it with SNMP too.)

>3.- If the machine that serves DNS requests for the Livingston dies, a user
>connecting by modem isn't able to receive DNS requests for the secondary
>server or other. Is this correct ? This sounds strange for me. When this

No. The PM's DNS setttings have nothing to do with the end user. You
can turn off DNS on the PM completely and the end user can still make DNS
requests on the DNS server (that's how I run my OR at home).

You need to configure the user's client to have a backup DNS in case the
primary goes down.

-MZ

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