To establish a connection to a remote station via the modem connected to the serial interface, a corresponding entry in the remote site list (ISDN/serial) must be generated. The remote sites list (ISDN/serial) contains the following information:
- Name: Name of the remote site
- Telephone number: Telephone number that reaches the remote site. The field can be left empty if calls are to be received only.
- Hold time: This time defines how long a connection is kept active even if no more data is being transferred. If a zero is entered, the connection will not be interrupted automatically. A hold time of "9999" means that the connection is permanently held open. If it is interrupted, then the connection will be actively opened up again. This behavior is known as keep alive.
- 2. Hold time: Is ignored.
- Layer name: The layer 'V.24_DEF' is selected for the connection over
the serial WAN interface. The layer is preset and does not need further
configuration. The layer 'V.24_DEF' uses the following settings:
- Encapsulation: Transparent
- Layer 3: APPP (asynchronous PPP)
- Layer 2: Transparent
- Options: none
- Layer 1: SERIAL (shows that the serial interface is being used for connections via the layer 'V.24_DEF')
The remote site list with the remote sites for the modem at the serial interface can be found under the following paths:
LANconfig: Communication / Remote sites / Remote sites (ISDN/serial)
WEBconfig: LCOS menu tree / Setup / WAN E Dialup-Peers
Once an entry in the remote site list has been generated for the WAN interface, this remote station can be used just like any other for routing and WAN connections.