MAX 6000/3000 Network Configuration Guide 4-1
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Configuring Individual WAN Connections
Most of the parameters for configuring WAN connections are in the Answer profile and
Connection or Names/Passwords profiles. Most of the decisions you have to make depend on
which protocol you choose for encapsulating data transmitted over the connection. Point to
Point Protocol (PPP) supports dial-in connections between the MAX and modems or ISDN
devices. Three variants—Multilink Protocol (MP), Multilink Protocol Plus (MP+), and
Bandwidth Allocation Control Protocol (BACP)—support multichannel connections. If your
network supports AppleTalk, you can configure AppleTalk R emote Access (ARA) connections
to asynchronous modems, or you can enable AppleTalk clients to use PPP for dialing in. The
MAX terminal server provides a command-line interface for administrators, and can provide
access to local and remote users through a terminal-server interface.
Combinet bridging links two LANs so that they appear to be a single segment. EU is a type of
X.75 HDLC encapsulation commonly used in Europe.
Introduction to WAN links. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2
The Answer profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3
The Connection profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-17
Configuring Names/Passwords profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-42
Configuring PPP connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-43
Configuring MP, MP+ and BACP connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-46
Configuring bidirectional CHAP support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-63
Enhanced support for MS-CHAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-72
Configuring dial-in PPP for AppleTalk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-72
Configuring AppleTalk connections from RADIUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-74
Configuring ARA connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-75
Configuring terminal-server connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-77
Configuring a Combinet connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-91
Configuring EU connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-93
Configuring DHCP services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-96
Configuring POTS capability on the MAX 6000 and MAX 3000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-100