dial-out routing on PM3

Richard_R.Moore (MOORERR@msu.edu)
Sun, 27 Jul 97 00:13 EDT

> To: portmaster-users@livingston.com
> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 18:25:01 -0700 (PDT)
> From: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>
>
> 2. The catch is you can't have it use ports across chassis. on-demand routi
> is done with a location table in *one* unit. So I'd advise putting this in
> say, the last box in your huntgroup - or whatever one has the least number
> of lines in use.
>
> -MZ

The problem with this is that it is much better to have your phone lines on a
UCD (uniform call distribution). This prevents your entire dial-up service
from going "in the tank" when you have one modem that answers, but does not
pass data. ( I know that the livingston modems won't fail in this manner, but
still weare paranoid). The UCD will distribute calls amoung ALL your lines,
so there would be NO "last box" like there is in a trunk hunting situation.
So if you have a heavy dial-in load, but still want to use some lines for
dial-out as well as dial-in, you meed to have dial-out routing work accross
ALL of your boxes. Please consider this a request for enhancement. Thanks.