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76CHAPTER 7: ADVANCED CONFIGURATION

Adding a Private To add a service provider profile for connection to a remote private network, Network Service follow the instructions provided in Chapter 6, “Configuring the Dual 56K LAN

Provider Modem for Private Network Access.”

Editing Service

The following steps allow you to edit a previously configured service provider

Provider Profiles

connection.

1From the Main Configuration Home Page, click the Service Providers image.

A drop-down list box appears which contains the names of your configured service providers.

2Select the name of the service provider connection profile you wish to edit. The connection profile page appears.

3Edit the fields as desired.

For more information on the particular fields, refer to the configuration instructions for the appropriate type of service provider (ISP or Private Network), or refer to the online help located in the bottom frame on the page.

4When finished, click Submit.

Restricting Access to

If you wish to restrict a particular workstations’s access to one or more service

Service Providers

providers, refer to the instructions under “Associating Service Providers with

 

Workstations on the LAN.”

 

If you wish to password protect the configuration profile of the Dual 56K LAN

 

Modem, refer to “Locking and Unlocking the Configuration.”

 

 

Associating Service

When you configure a Service Provider on the Dual 56K LAN Modem, by default

Providers with

that connection is made available to every workstation attached to the LAN. If, for

Workstations on the

example, you set up an Internet connection through an ISP and have 25

LAN

workstations attached to the LAN, all 25 users will be able to access the Internet

 

through this connection. The ISP is, by default, “associated” with each user’s

 

workstation.

 

You can change these associations through the Workstation Parameters page. For

 

example, if you want only authorized workstations to have Internet access

 

through a Service Provider connection, you can associate that Service Provider

 

exclusively with those workstations. This would all only authorized users on the

 

LAN access to the Internet from their computers.

 

To change the association between service providers and specific workstations on

 

the LAN, follow these steps.

1From the Main Configuration Home Page, click the Workstations icon. The Workstation Parameters window appears.

2Modify the associations for each listed workstation by leaving the box under each listed Service Provider checked to allow the association, or by clearing the box to disallow the association.

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