The downside of your setup is that you have no firewall service capability. Using one linux box as a gateway would permit you have a firewall for your lan. I also set up a video conferencing reflector for a few cams around the hours, an in-house videoconferencing system (OK, I have a bit too much time on my hands...) and a test irc server for similar purposes (WAY too much time on my hands). Anyone know how to convince linux to make coffee? ;)
This is not to you in particular, but to those who are considering ISDN for a LAN and have some money buring a hole your pocket :-). Instead of dealing with a dialing server and routing and so forth with that, an elegant (though pricey) solution to this problem is a ISDN LAN modem. I chose this option, even though it was more expensive, because I screw around with my machines a lot (I run NT, linux, BeOS, FreeBSD and OpenBSD on one machine alone) and when I screw up the one that dials in, I have no net access under that OS (or sometimes, any). The LAN modem is OS agnostic and configured through a built in http server. I just use a web browser to configure and then leave it alone. Since I have several machines on my network, it's better for me because I only have to set the default gateway and the DNS server to the address of the modem (determined by me) on each of the machines and it simply works.
I know it's pricy and some people like the pain of setting up stuff like this, but it's an option. I work as a admin at work. When I come home, I just want it to work :-)
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