> I am in the process of getting ready to bring our first PortMaster on-line
> and have just started pouring over COM-OS documentation. Before I dig myself
> in right off the bat, let me say that the PM3 looks like an excellent
> hardware platform, but COM-OS looks to be pretty limited.
No ComOS was designed to do what it was designed to do and is the top of
the heap for that.
> So far I have run across a couple of things that we can do with our other
> NAS vendors OS. If anyone can give me some work arounds, it would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> 1) Is there any way to keep SMTP and POP3 calls from resetting the idle
> timer? Without this, a subscriber doesn't even have to get a keep alive
> program. They can just use their email client software to stay on line
> forever.
tsmon or hack something together yourself to check bytes sent/rcv'd on a
port per time period.
> I ran this one by tech support. Their answer was to use the Session Timer to
> bounce subscribers. This is tacky. Has anyone got a better way of doing it?
>
> 2) Multiple IP Address Pools looks like another problem area for us. We have
> several clients that we operate dial-up pools for. Presently our NAS has
> several IP address pools that it allocates from. If a dial-up user from
> company A dials in, radius tells the NAS to allocate and address from pool 3
> and the user can be routed to company A resources based on address. How do
> you do this with a PM3? I am afraid to try to look for VPN option.
?? they are dynamically applied from different pools? Nope it doesn't do
this.
> Has anybody else ask for these enhancements? Great hardware is fine, but
> without having a great OS to support it - is it great anymore? Please
> convince me that we are not making a mistake putting one of these boxes
> on-line.
Hmm, yes some have asked for these add-ons. but Lucent RABUs take is to
provide for the general rather than the specific. As such, you may have
purchased the PM3 for the wrong reasons and should have checked for these
features first...
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