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The Port Server and Rotaries

Create raw rotaries.

Force a binary mode connection.

Conﬁgure port selection.

For a description of ﬁle parsing and creating rotary entries in the conﬁguration ﬁle, see Parsing

the Conﬁguration File on page A14-3 and Creating rotary Entries in the Configuration File on page

Conﬁguring Rotaries

Conﬁguring rotaries includes the following options:

Deﬁning multiple rotaries with one ﬁle entry.

Assigning rotaries auxiliary Internet addresses.

Using the DNS server to deﬁne multiple rotaries.

Assigning rotaries TCP port numbers.

Conﬁguring visibility.

Conﬁguring camp-on.

Conﬁguring the protocol.

Conﬁguring port selection.

Deﬁning Multiple Rotaries with One Entry

You can include more than one Model 5390 server in a single ﬁle entry in the rotary section of the

Model 5390 server configuration file by separating the ports@locations field with semicolons. The

following entry defines a rotary named modems that resides on two different Model 5390 servers.

The rotary on 5390_01 has seven ports; the rotary on the Model 5390 server with the Internet address

132.245.6.15 has one port.

modems: 1,4,7,13-16@5390_01; 10@132.245.6.15

NOTE: In earlier software releases, rotaries is an individual ﬁle. The

ﬁle syntax has not changed. Using %include statements in the conﬁgu-

ration ﬁle incorporates ﬁles from earlier releases.