Beth- Yes. You can use the 804 in the fashion you ask. In fact, that's what it is designed to do... if you want it to perform as if it were routing traffic in a "nailed-up" state, you just set the dialer timer to an infinitely high value... and then it'll never hang up, unless you kill the power, or circuit (of which, depending on your locale and provider, the circuit "flap" might occur more often than you desire :) ).
When you configure the Dialer idle-timeout paramater, you can set it for say 10 minutes, and then if no defined interesting traffic doesn't traverse the interface, it'll hang up. As soon as the 'interesting traffic' comes back across, it'll dial back out. If you don't have a lot of experience with it, you can Download the ConfigMaker 2.6 tool from Cisco (free), and use it to help generate your config with the required info. After that, if you want to control your dialer interface even further, such as to follow a time-table for allowing dial-up (such as to conserve telco dial costs), and deny certain traffic that would keep the idle-timeout parameter from ever being reached, you should consider creating some access-lists to deny ports 135-137 (Windoze NetBios broadcast traffic). Hope this leads you to your answers. See CCO for config samples. Good Luck, Mark -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of beth Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 4:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: quick question - router for regular dial in isp? [7:36006] Hello, i have a quick question. Can you use a regular 804 cisco router to dial into a regular dial in isdn isp account? not a dedicated account. Thanks! Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=36045&t=36006 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
