Tripp Lite B097048INT Owners Manual for B093- B097- and B098-Series Console Se - Page 79
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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