Re: demand dial question

Michael J. Hartwick (hartwick@primeline.net)
Tue, 17 Sep 1996 17:53:48 -0400 (EDT)

If I understand what you are after correctly you could write the number
that you need to dial into the modems NVRAM my modem uses at&z0=5551212.
Then as the command to dial use atds=0, this way the PM only needs to
dial one number and it will connect to two seperate lines.

On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Jim Bender wrote:

>
>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
>

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Michael J. Hartwick, VE3SLQ
Hartwick Communications Consulting
hartwick@primeline.net