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Local Networking with Users can share simultaneous access to both the Internet and a remote private Shared Access to the network while they continue to network locally, as shown in Figure 3.

Internet and a Private

Network

Internet

OfficeConnect

Dual 56K LAN Modem

		Public telephone
MODEM 1MODEM 2	LAN Status	network
		Two analog POTS lines

Private network

Figure 3 Local Networking with Shared Access to the Internet and a Remote Private

Network

Combined Dial-in and Users can share access to the Internet or a remote private network and continue to Dial-out Access network locally, while a user dials in for access to a server or servers on the LAN, as

shown in Figure 4. (Other dial-in scenarios are possible. Refer to Chapter 8 for specific applications.)

	Internet
	or
Workstation	private network

Workstation

Public telephone

OfficeConnect

network

Dual 56K LAN Modem

Workstation

Dial-in modem user

Two analog POTs lines

Server

Figure 4 Local Networking and Dial-out Access with Dial-in Support