Re: Very Small ISP using Dial-Up

Philip Thomas ( (no email) )
Mon, 14 Apr 1997 14:43:13 -0700

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From: Humoud Otaibi <otaibi@sapic.com>
To: ntisp <ntisp@emerald.iea.com>
Date: Monday, April 14, 1997 2:35 PM
Subject: Very Small ISP using Dial-Up

Hi,
I'm trying to set up a very small ISP using NT server 4.0 for
testing purposes. I have only one machine (running NT server 4.0, BIND,
IIS 3.0) and 4 modems. I have a dialup connection to my provider using
one of my modems (33.6K). I got a fixed IP address for this connection
from my provider (for example 194.126.42.15).
Now my questions:

(1) Does RưAS handle all of these connections (one for dial-out to my
provider, three for dial-in users) ?

> ras can handle both your line to the ISP and provide dial in user access.
You may need to enable
>RIP on your server or you can use static routes through NT to your ISP.
But I believe with NT requires that IP
>address you will hand out to you dial in user will have to be on a
seperate subnet than your actual pipe to
>to the ISP

(2) What IP addresses can I give my dial-in users through RAS ? I do NOT
have any registered IP addresses and my provider is not giving me any.
Can I pick any random IP addresses (or use 192.168.x.x) ?

>you will need to get registered IP blocks from your ISP- you can't just
make them up, and you
>will need to configure DHCP to allow dynamic assignments of those address
to your dial users.

(3) How can I route my dial-in user's traffic through RAS to my provider
? I do NOT have router. Do I need SteelHead ?

> You might be able to use RIP or create static routes- really slow through
a 33.6 pipe.

Thanks for any help.
Regards,
Humoud.

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