ADSL

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Jul 8, 2002, 11:58:07 AM7/8/02

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Hi

I am currently running a Netware 5.1 Small Businees Server to provide
Internet connectivity and e-mail (using GroupWise) to 10 users on the
LAN. This is achieved using an ISDN card in the server with just a
standard dial-up connection to the ISP. We are looking to have an ADSL
line installed to replace the ISDN line due to excessive dial-up costs.
Is this possible? How do I go about configuring my Novell Server to work
with ADSL?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Richard Beilby (NNTP)

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Jul 8, 2002, 2:50:31 PM7/8/02

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You lucky ******, BT is enabling ADSL in Woking. We have been told that
there is no intention of enabling our exchange whatsoever.

You will probably be better off putting this post on the Groupwise
forum. You will probably need to set the IP address of the ADSL modem
within Groupwise.

Good luck.

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Richard Beilby.

Andy Thompson

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Jul 8, 2002, 3:00:38 PM7/8/02

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Are you getting a static IP address? Does your provider require PPPoE?

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Tim Scotland

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Jul 8, 2002, 4:27:47 PM7/8/02

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I assume that you have installed BM on the server?

You will need to add a second NIC that will connect to the ADSL
router. I have used the Zytel router successfully for this purpose.
The router has a fixed IP and subnet mask, and the BM (or in your case
single NW server) has another ipaddress in the same subnet. The you
set the Default route of the NW server to the ipaddress of the router.

The GWIA will answer on either IP. All you have to do is sort out you
filters.

Tim

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Richard Beilby (NNTP)

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Jul 9, 2002, 6:11:46 PM7/9/02

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Is a second NIC also needed for an ISDN router and is the IP
configuration similar?

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Peter Rowe

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Jul 10, 2002, 8:13:18 AM7/10/02

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This all depends whether or not you use the ISDN router to do the port
forwarding you need to reroute the SMTP traffic to the GWIA, and anything
else you need.

If you do this all you need is to have the default gateway on the server set
to be the private IP on the ISDN router, and therefore a 2nd network card is
not needed. Likewise for an ADSL router etc etc

if you are not for any reason using BorderManager then it's easiest just to
assign 1 public IP to your router and port forward to the Private IP on your
server as above. If you dont use BM/proxy, then you can also set the
clients default gateway to this as well, bypassing the server for internet
access.

Peter.

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Tim Scotland

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Jul 10, 2002, 9:20:31 AM7/10/02

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You can use something like an internal isdn card, but BM's filters and
proxies work best with two real NICs in the server.

So, Yes I use a second NIC and a crossover cable for an ISDN router,
and yes therefore the same setup works a treat.

Tim

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>Is a second NIC also needed for an ISDN router and is the IP
>configuration similar?

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Johan

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Jul 10, 2002, 8:59:34 AM7/10/02

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If you do use Bordermanager i would recommend to use a second NIC because
that is the only way to prevent users to bypass the server and do whatever
they want by setting the private IP address of the router as their default
gateway.

You can't image how clever people are when it comes to making their
favourite chat program, mp3 downloads and streaming video, etc work ....

Johan

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Stuart Robinson

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Jul 10, 2002, 1:32:38 PM7/10/02

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> You can use something like an internal isdn card, but BM's filters and
> proxies work best with two real NICs in the server.

I have not noticed any problem or differences between using BM on an ISDN
modem versus an ADSL router.

Stuart.

Richard Beilby (NNTP)

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Jul 12, 2002, 2:25:53 AM7/12/02

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Thank you to you all for your helpful replies.

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Norbert Exler

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Jul 31, 2002, 4:11:23 AM7/31/02

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hi,
i had some problems with the protocol used in austria and finally installed
a simple ADSL router (zyxel -my favorite, usrobotics, ...) which now does
the job very well.
it also has some other advantage: the internet still works when the server
is down for some reason (which does not happen very often but does). the
employees still can surf the internet and are happy ;-)

regards
norbert

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