- Anyone make an Ethernet/Dial-Up Modem (not cable or dsl)
- Posted by on December 24th, 2003
My firewall has a second interface that provides for fail-over. Normally,
the port would be connected to a second ISP connection, but I'd like to use
dial-up instead. Does anyone make a lower-cost Dial-Up Modem that has an
Ethernet RJ-45 port as opposed to a regular ol' serial port?
TIA!
- Posted by Tom Schmidt on December 28th, 2003
<nospamjunketc@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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I'm not aware of of any Dialup modems with an Ethernet connection. I use a
MultiTech RouteFinder broadband router to perform this function. The router
has both an Ethernet high-speed WAN port and a serial port for POTS backup.
I believe SMC and Ascente routers have automatic backup.
Assuming you don't want to change your Firewall get one of these routers or
any router designed to use a dialup modem. Connect it to the Ethernet backup
port and away you go. If the main WAN connection fails the firewall will
begin directing traffic to the aux port. The dialup router will connect to
the dialup ISP when the main connection is restored dialup traffic ceases
dropping the dialup connection.
The dialup router will perform NAT, this may result in doing NAT twice. This
is not a problem for outgoing traffic but will make it more difficult to map
incoming. But then so will the different IP address assigned to the dialup
connection.
/Tom
- Posted by leslie on December 28th, 2003
nospamjunketc@earthlink.net wrote:
: My firewall has a second interface that provides for fail-over. Normally,
: the port would be connected to a second ISP connection, but I'd like to
: use dial-up instead. Does anyone make a lower-cost Dial-Up Modem that has
: an Ethernet RJ-45 port as opposed to a regular ol' serial port?
:
: TIA!
:
The Actiontec Dual PC Modem is a router combined with an analog modem:
http://www.actiontec.com/products/mo..._overview.html
Product Info - 56K External Modem
"...Overview
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connected longer, and faster. Imagine two people online at the same
time, check email or just surf the web! With the Actiontec Dual PC
Modem, you can share your Internet Access with another member of the
family..."
--Jerry Leslie
Note: leslie@jrlvax.houston.rr.com is invalid for email
