Tripp Lite B0930082E4UV Owners Manual for B093- B097- and B098-Series Console - Page 79

5. Firewall, Failover and OOB Access 5.2.4 Set Up Earlier Windows Clients For Windows 2000, the PPP client set up procedure is the same as above, except you go to the Dial-Up Networking Folder by clicking the Start button and selecting Settings. Then click Network and Dial-up Connections and click Make New Connection. Similarly, for Windows 98, double-click My Computer on the Desktop, then open Dial-Up Networking, double-click Make New Connection and proceed as above. 5.2.5 Set Up Linux Clients The online tutorial http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialPPP.html presents a selection of methods for establishing a dial-up PPP connection: • Command line PPP and manual configuration (which works with any Linux distribution). • Using the Linuxconf configuration tool (for Red Hat compatible distributions). This configures the scripts ifup/ifdown to start and stop a PPP connection. • Using the Gnome control panel configuration tool. • WVDIAL and the Redhat "Dialup configuration tool". • GUI dial program X-isp. Download/Installation/Configuration. Note: For all PPP clients: • Set the PPP link up with TCP/IP as the only protocol enabled. • Specify the Server will assign IP address and do DNS. • Do not set up the console server PPP link as the default for Internet connection. 5.3 Dial-Out Access The internal or external attached modem on the console server can be set up in either: • Failover mode, where a dial-out connection is only established in event of a ping failure or • With the dial-out connection always on. In both of the above cases, during a disruption in the dial-out connection, the console server will work to re-establish the connection. 79