Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucla-cs!ucla-se!watson!weiss
From: weiss@watson.seas.ucla.edu (Michael Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Gatorbox v Fastpath
Message-ID: <2515@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
Date: 24 Apr 91 17:41:29 GMT
References: <1991Mar5.220625.6493@cns.umist.ac.uk> <1991Mar6.142114.27729@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <20838@imag.imag.fr>
Sender: news@SEAS.UCLA.EDU
Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles
Lines: 20

I'm looking for some help with boxes of that sort as well (routers of sorts).
I'm helping Palm Springs Fire Department set up an AppleTalk WAN.  There are
5 stations.  Station 2 houses the administration as well as firefighters, and
already has a LAN that I set up for them using AppleTalk on PhoneNet.  Works
like a charm.  Now they want to hook up the remote stations (4 of 'em) to the
server (and network) at Station 2.  D1 lines are out, since Palm Springs has
no digital lines.  We will have to go with voice lines.  Therefore, the next
question I have (the one I'm presenting to you) is, how can I hook up 4 modems
to the network so that someone could call in and hook up with the network from
outlying stations?  We have looked into using Liaison, and have even been
testing it, but the problem is that you can only have one modem hooked up per
machine.  This would mean that four machines at Station 2 would have to be
kept on 24 hours a day.  For the server, this is fine, but you know you can't
rely upon users in a network to NEVER make the mistake of turning off their
machines.  Is there some sort of box that will effectively do the same thing?
My preference would be a box that could have 6 modems attached to it, but
certainly we would want one that could at least have two.

Replies sent through E-mail should be directed to IZZYDP5@oac.ucla.edu.
THANKS!