It's easy enough to have diald call many sites, you can even assign
each a different IP address by using ppp-options. But to do this
based on the IP address won't be too easy. You'd have to write a
program to used the 'diald-monitor' interface and have it interpret
the information between the 'QUEUE' and 'END' lines to actually find
the addresses (taking care to check _both_ addresses).
Not too simple, but doable.
--
Rob. (Robert de Bath <http://poboxes.com/rdebath>)
<rdebath @ poboxes.com> <http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Cary B. O'Brien wrote:
> > 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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