On Wed, 14 May 2003, Mike Cisar wrote:
For various reasons I'm thinking that now might be the time to retire the external router and rather than go out and pick up a new one, it might be best to just use the Total Control to perform that function... if it'll work. So that's the "can I" part of the question... will the routing capabilities within in the TC work to serve both the servers on the LAN, and the dialup users connecting to the chassis?
The question really is "do you want to". If it were me, no. The Netserver is barely a router. Also having your points of failure spread out is better than betting the farm on a Netserver. I wouldn't. I'm not even sure it can do HDLC or PPP, I seem to recall it only does Frame Relay... Just my $0.02. Charles
The second part of the question, "how do I". From the sparse documentation we have around I can see the "set wan0 address" and "set wan0 netmask" to set the upstream IP for the router. I've got "set net0 address" and "set net0 netmask" to change the LAN IP of the TC to match that formerly used by the external router (saves reconfiguring the gateway on all the servers). Now... the ones I'm not sure about... "set net0 routing" "set wan0 routing" "add wan0 <dlci #>" ...what are going to be the proper settings for these in this configuration. The only other info about the configuration of the existing router that I can think might have some bearing is that it is connected to the CSU/DSU via a V.35 cable, and the protocol on the WAN port is specified as PPP, speed of 1544000.
And finally routing... we have 3 address blocks... lets say 1.2.3.x, 4.5.6.x and 7.8.9.x The existing router currently responds as IP's 1.2.3.1, 4.5.6.1, and 7.8.9.1 The 1.2.3.x and 7.8.9.x blocks are just routed out to the lan port and service various servers and workstation, whereas the 4.5.6.x block is routed to 1.2.3.5 (which is the LAN ip of the TC) and is used as the address pool for the dialup clients. Now assuming that I change the LAN IP of the TC to 1.2.3.1 (or do I need to leave it at .5 ??), how do I go about setting up the routing to act the same as my existing setup, how do I configure the TC to respond to the other two .1 addresses, and are there any other configuration changes that I'll need to make.
Thanks in advance for any assistance you may be able to provide.
Thanks,
Mike <<<<<
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