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Prestige 128MH PSTN Router/Hub

Chapter 4

Telecommuting

You can configure your Prestige to receive calls from Remote Dial-in Users (for example, Telecommuters) and Remote Nodes. There are several differences between Remote Dial-in Users and Remote Nodes, as summarized in Table 4-1.

Table 4-1. Remote Dial-in Users/Remote Nodes Comparison Chart

Remote Dial-in Users	Remote Nodes
Your Prestige will only answer calls from Remote	Your Prestige can make calls to or answer calls from
Dial-in Users.	the Remote Node.
All Remote Dial-in Users share one common set of	Each Remote Node can have its own set of
parameters, as defined in the Default Dial In Setup	parameters such as Bandwidth On Demand,
(Menu 13).	Protocol, Security, etc.

Remote Dial-in Users are individual users who dial in to your Prestige directly from their workstations.

Remote Nodes represent networks and are used for LAN-to-LAN connections.

This chapter discusses how to setup Default Dial-in parameters for both Remote Node and Remote Dial-in Users. The following sections give two examples of how your Prestige can be configured as a dial-in server for either or both.

By default, your Prestige allows information for up to eight users to be kept. If more than eight remote dial-in users can access your Prestige, you can use a separate RADIUS server to provide remote authentication services. For details on using a separate RADIUS server, see the Using

RADIUS Authentication section in Chapter 11 - System Security.

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