In article , [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > Dear GroupStudy, > > Here is my interesting dilemma. I hope someone can lend some insight... > > 1 - I only have dial-up (no cable modem - i.e. no constant connection to > Internet). > 2 - I travel for work, so I'm not home very often. > 3 - I have a lab that I would like to use rather often. > 4 - I do not want to spend a lot of $$ on long distance to dial up my > lab. > 5 - I also do not want to spend a lot of $$ on electricity if the lab is > not in use. > 6 - I have (will have) an APC MasterSwitch PDU that I know can be used > to remotely power up/power down the lab. > 7 - The lab consists of all 2500 series routers (7 of them). > > I do not know if I can dial in to the PDU in order to power up the lab > (this I can figure out). Once the lab is powered up, is there a way to > have one of the routers dial up my ISP? But then, how would I know what > the IP address of the router is (since the ISP uses DHCP) in order to > telnet to the lab? > > One of the solutions I have thought of is to dial up my PC (with wake on > LAN - if that works on the modem), disconnect. Then the dial up > connection would be in my startup folder so the PC would dial the ISP > automatically. Then I would dial up the ISP from wherever I would be. > Then I still have the problem of knowing my IP address. A friend said > to use ICQ. I don't know how that works, but will try it. > > I think I have covered everything. Thanks in advance for any help. > > Jake Secrist I set a similar thing up at home although it doesn't answer all of your questions it may give you other ideas. Try www.no-ip.com. For simple dynamic DNS they offer a free service. It seems to work fine for me. I use Windows XP remote desktop to a home PC and connect to everything else from there. Bit of a strange set-up, but I use Internet Connection sharing on the XP box and all the routers sit behind that. I suppose the security may not be wonderful?? but to be honest I don't care. The XP machine can be re-built in minutes (ish).
I don't have the problem of remote power on, as I have a much more complicated and infinitely more expensive device which powers everything on when needed. Unfortunately she's not always in when I call, but you can't have everything :-) Gaz Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=54836&t=54768 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
