[109458] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do dialup ISPs allow multiple clients under one access number?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (TSG)
Mon Nov 24 11:12:34 2008
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:12:18 -0800
From: TSG <tglassey@earthlink.net>
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0811241044350.16392@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
Cc: John Musbach <johnmusbach1@gmail.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
OK - great timing on this -
So I need to hire a consultant who knows PATTON 2900 series RAS systems
and managing them - i.e. someone with RADIUS experience.
Anyone here with that ability who wants to help setup a set of access
points. One in NYC and one in SJ California? Contact me offlist
TGlassey@Certichron.com
Todd Glassey
Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> 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
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