demand dial question

Jim Bender (jbender@bdsnet.com)
Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:49:47 EST

We have a situation where we need to have two ports connected in a
load balancing configuration. We have this up and running now, and
works well. At least bringing it all up manually works well. :-)

The question comes because of the way we had to set it up. In order
to get two lines up, the portmaster needed to dial two separate numbers,
rather than the same number twice. The only way we saw to make this
work was to use two locations, one for each number.

This seems to render the automatic load balancing inoperative. Or will
it still bring the second line back up if it goes down? We currently
have it set to not timeout, but we still need it to come back up if
it is disconnected for any other reason.

We have two ports on the PM set as dial-out, and both locations are noted
as "On-demand".

We don't want to have to watch this config continuously to bring down lines
back up if it can work automatically...

Any insight greatly appreciated...

Thanks!
Jim Bender
jbender@bdsnet.com