> 3. on the PM, create two modem pools (one for the unix boxes (in.pmd) and one
> for the Win95/Nt machines.
>
> NOTE: YOU CAN NOT USE THE SAME MODEMS FOR BOTH in.pmd AND dialout/ip. THAT IS
> WHY I WANTED YOU TO CREATE TWO MODEM POOLS.
This is good news. It is not perfect by any means. I don't like two
modem pools. But this is pretty close. I will try it.
Thanks for the quick response.
> P.S. Cisco can not do this! the only thing you can do on a cisco is to
> reverse telnet to a port and dial out charactor mode (not packet
> mode (i.e. ppp))
This is what I thought. But as I said, one cannot always tell what is
possible by noting the omissions on a marketing blurb.
Back to the modem pool issue. I wonder if it is understood why it
matters that two modem pools are not desirable? We are not a large
company. Every modem line is an additional cost. Not a lot, but
still who needs to be throwing money at Bell? They certainly do not
need it!!
In our case, 5 modems would probably do nicely for the Unix group.
Another 5 for the Windows group would be appropriate. But we don't
really need 10. Probably 6 or 7 would do, since both groups will
almost never need all 5 of "their" modems at the same time. There is
a lot of quite time
I am going to experiment with this software from Tactical Software.
It maybe that with our constrained requirments, I can do some thing
abou the separate pools, (ie. have them hunt for modems from opposite
ends?) I dunno know. We will see.
Kind regards,
Larry