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6.1.2 Accessing Remote LANs Using a Service Provider
Figure 176. Connection Using Service Provider
The easiest way to use the Internet access facilities is to use an Internet service
provider, for example, CompuServe. These service providers give you with an
official Internet address for your workstation, which may be used to access your
local managing workstation. See the information below for an explanation. You
may get access to the Internet on either or both sites using a service provider.
This means that you can define the access to the Internet using for example,
CompuServe for the managing workstation as well as for the managed
workstation.
1. All workstations have at least one supported network device driver installed.
2. All workstations connected to the remote LAN have the TME 10 NetFinity
Services installed.
3. One system, which is also connected to the remote LAN, has been
configured to access the service providers network (such as logging on to
CompuServe) and activated the Internet access using this service provider.
4. The gateway system also has established the Internet connection through
the service providers network. In some cases this workstation has to have a
specific software configuration. The different service providers will give you
the appropriate configuration details, which may also be different depending
on the software product being used to connect to the service providers
network.
Please be aware that the Internet TCP/IP address provided by your service
provider might change every time you log on to your service providers
network. We experienced this symptom when for example, logging on to
CompuServe and accessing the Internet using CompuServe. Every time we
got a different TCP/IP address. There is a possibility to define a specific
TCP/IP address for your connection to your service provider. This depends,
of course, on your service provider. In some cases the service provider will
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