RE: (PM) Another Q on PM3
Beth Montes (bmontes@iland.net)
Thu, 29 Jan 1998 22:02:08 -0600
At 11:15 AM 1/30/98 +0800, Chen Shiyuan wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Chad Scott wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, January 29, 1998 11:42 AM, Chen Shiyuan [SMTP:csy@hjc.edu.sg]
>> wrote:
>> > I would like to be able to "reserve" the last two ports on my PM3 for
>> > "special" users such that in the event that all the modems is used up,
>> > these users will still be able to dialin.
>> >
>> > Is there any simple way to do it? I think one way would be to use RADIUS
>> > to control who can login to the last two ports. But is there any other
>> > simple way? I know by doing so, some other problems may crop up such as
>> > normal users getting login incorrects and so on when the modem pool is
>> > full or some ineffcient use of the modem pool when the special users are
>> > using some other ports.
>>
>> Have the telephone company put all the channels except the last two in the
>> hunt group. Give the last two channels their own phone numbers and give
>> those numbers out to your special users.
>
>Hmm... interesting...
>
>But in this case, how would the PM3 know that which tel number is
>supposed to be on which NAS port?
It doesn't have to. The telco points the 2 phone numbers
down channels 23 and 24, and your 23rd and 24th modems
on that span will answer. You could also do the RADIUS
thing for additional security, in case the 2 "private"
phone numbers became common knowledge.
Beth
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