> Ian,
> Did you dial to another Livingston from your portmaster or did a
> Linux user dial into your Portmaster to do this?
>
> On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Ian McLaughlin wrote:
> > We're doing it here, thanks to some support I got from the mailing list.
> > I am using 4 US Robotics Courier 33.6 modems at each end to supply approx
> > 128kbps to the top of a ski hill. There is a tech note at Livingston
> > that talks about setting up dial-on-demand connections. This is where I
> > started, but I put the threshold at 0 so all lines come up at the same
> > time, instead of lines going up and down as badwidth is needed. Of
> > course the latentcy is still there (smae ping times for a 33.6kbps link
> > as for one with 4 modems), but throughput is excellent, considering the
> > costs of leased lines up here! In fact, I'm on site right now setting up
> > a conference as I type this. If you need more info, email me.
I am using two portmasters - one at the remote pop (on top of the
mountain) - this is the unit doing the dialling - and one at our office.
The one at our office is a PM2E-30, with four ports dedicated to this
project, and the rest are regular dial-in lines.
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