network configuration problem

Brent Harding bharding at ufw2.com
Thu Oct 12 22:20:23 EDT 2000


Is there modem router combos, where I can have two machines connected by
ethernet with one using ipmasking over a dialup link? I mean, a modem that
dials up, but also has an ethernet jack to easily share the connection
among several machines?
It'd be where I'd telnet to this device, tell it the info to dial the isp,
and it would take care of that and I could have more machines with less
phone lines, sharing one ip address.
At 12:13 PM 10/13/00 +1100, you wrote:
>Wow! A volume knob on a modem would be a good idea but over here in
>Australia we don't get that option. I have used many modems;
>Netcomm banxia dynalink rockwell based noname us robotics and sadly none of
>them have this feature.
>
>Another note:
>Never never never add &w to theinit string of a modem.
>Why? because over time the nvram will fail they only handle 10,000 writes and
>if you &w every time you init hte modem that limit can come up.
>
>Regarding the &f1 cludge; There is a far better way to handle this on
>most modems.
>Check your manual. You will find that there is an option to tell the modem
>what profile to load at powerup. &y does it on one of my modems.
>Then simply set modem to &d2 (dtr drops line but does not load profile) and
>whenever you power cycle the modem it will reload the profile. If you set &d3
>(reload profile on dtr drop) mgetty will break and bad things (tm) happen.
>
>My preferred solution to the modem has brain damaged defaults for hw flow
control
>is to find the command to set hardware flow control often &k3 or similar,
>run that and at&w the setting back into profile zero. This means you don't
>have to change the default powerup profile and the default profile should be
>the one you use on most equiptment anyway in my not so humble opinion.
>
>Regards, Kerry.
>On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 06:37:24AM -0500, Kirk Wood wrote:
>> Chuck,
>> 
>> Most externals have a knob on the outside to adjust volume that way at the
>> amp side. Then you can adjust from nothing to the loudness dictated by the
>> l instruction.
>> 
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