Implementing Dial Services; Dialer Profiles - Enterasys Security Router X-PeditionTM User Manual

Implementing Dial Services

Implementing Dial Services
Dial services are provided by dialer interfaces, which are defined as any
XSR interface capable of placing or receiving a call. You can implement Dial Services by creating a
dialer profile.
Refer to
Figure 10-2
locations served by the XSR.
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Dialer Profiles

Dialer profiles are comprised of virtual and physical interfaces which can be bound together
dynamically on a per-call basis. Dialer profiles can also be configured as physical interfaces
separate from the virtual configuration required to make a connection.
This flexibility permits different dialer profiles to share XSR Serial interfaces. Dialer profiles are
efficient when physical resources number less than users because a pool of resources can draw on
the resources in the pool based on typical use. Be aware that all calls going to or from the same
destination subnetwork use the same dialer profile.
A dialer profile consists of the following elements:
• Dialer interface is a virtual WAN interface you can configure with data that defines
communications with destination sub-networks. The dialer interface is not constantly
connected to a remote device, but dials the remote device whenever a connection is needed—
on-demand. To dial up at the appropriate time requires configuring a dialer profile. It is
configured with the
10-4 Configuring Dialer Services
Figure 10-2 for a network perspective and
illustrates a sample Dialer Profile which defines interface dialers in five corporate
Figure 10-2
Dialer
Profile
Serial- Serial-
async sync
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interface dialer
Figure 10-3
- Dial Services - Network View
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XSR
Serial- Serial-
async
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command. The dialer interface is spoofed by default
for a logical view of Dial Services.
Serial-
sync async
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