[109456] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do dialup ISPs allow multiple clients under one access number?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Mon Nov 24 10:49:09 2008
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:52:17 -0500 (EST)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: John Musbach <johnmusbach1@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <17c8e29e0811232314x144f0103m493d452b59d1c348@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, John Musbach wrote:
> I'm interested in figuring out how dialup ISPs work and have found
> plenty of info on dialin server setup but not much on how ISPs allow
> multiple clients under one access number, how do they do it?
That depends on what you mean by multiple clients. If you mean multiple
customers of a single ISP, you would provision serveral PRIs through a
telco, and assign a phone number that will hunt down through all of PRIs
to find an open port.
If you mean multiple clients in the sense that you're a dial wholesaler
and you're providing service to multiple ISPs, you'd still do hunt groups
as mentioned by other posters, plus you could also assign each wholesale
client a unique RADIUS domain to allow for client-specific attributes to
be applied to dialin sessions. For example, this could be used to control
the IP addresses that are assigned a given ISP's customers.
jms
