[1687] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Linux as a dial-up router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Thu Jan 25 08:56:08 1996
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: dprinslo@ddafrica.didata.co.za (Danie Prinsloo)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 12:16:33 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199511120053.CAA10335@ddafrica.didata.co.za> from "Danie Prinsloo" at Jan 24, 96 11:13:07 am
> 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
If you are just trying to exchange email, especially over very bad phone,
vsat or radio links then take a hard look at uucp. If you keep the times right
on the machines and plan call in times you'll only need one central hub
modem + your link to the internet. UUCP software is basically free for every
system on the planet and you can run uucp software on anything from CP/M
upwards. Internet is probably overkill.
See and ask on comp.protocols.uucp
Alan
