> On Thu, 12 Nov 1998 17:23:38 -0500 (EST), Edward Doolittle
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> >On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Cary B. O'Brien wrote:
> >
> >> 3) As an aside, I may have a requirement for dial-out to
> >> several hundred sites. I can't imagine several hundred
> >> slip interfaces and several hundred diald processes.
> >> Any ideas about how to set this up? Diald would need
> >> to select from a pool of modems, and then pick the chat
> >> and pppd config files based on IP address of the target.
> >
> I would suggest putting a server at a colocation and having people
> dial into the internet to contact you.
>
Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear about the requirement. This is for an
um-er- data aquisition network with hundreds of remote sites. Once in
a while the sites need to call in (ok, should work fine -- they login and
start pppd as their shell), but the kicker is sometimes the hub needs
to call out.
The customer has um-er- a big program that doesn't know about dialing
modems. It wants to send a request to ip address a.b.c.d and get
a response back. So I need to set up a box as a gateway to some subnet
that can dial out and set up a ppp link to any one of the hundreds of
sites that the control guys want to talk to. Hence diald handling
many, many possible target sites. Note that each remote site is a small
subnet in itself.
We are starting to do this with a Cisco RAS. It seems to work, but
I would like to have a Linux solution as an alternative.
-- cary
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