[1683] in linux-net channel archive
Linux as a dial-up router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Danie Prinsloo)
Wed Jan 24 16:27:24 1996
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 11:13:07 +0100
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
From: dprinslo@ddafrica.didata.co.za (Danie Prinsloo)
Good evening,
My company has 14 offices in Africa and have a great problem in getting
communications going to all these different countries. We are trying to set
up VSAT links to all these countries but have emmense problems with
legeslation. We cannot get leased lines, if any, and if we can we can only
get 4800 bps and at VERY expensive prices. So, what I am trying to set up is
to configure my Linux server in my office in Johannesburg as a "gateway" to
the internet for all my remote offices. (This central server is currently
connected to the internet.) I would thus like my machine to dial all these
remote servers (Linux servers) at regular intervals and exchange e-mail
between my own server and the remote server, but also to pass the e-mail on
to the internet. I would like to avoid putting in multiple modems and I
would like the central machine to dial untill it makes a connection, as we
have poor voice lines. The dial connections have to originate from the
central server
I have read the NET-2-HOWTO and PPP-HOWTO, but they discuss more when you
have a remote machine and want to connect to internet via a service provider.
Could you please direct me to documents/discussion groups I can investigate
to find a solution to my problem.
Thank you in advance.
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Danie Prinsloo
(The Baron)
dprinslo@ddafrica.didata.co.za
