[1688] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Linux as a dial-up router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Janssen reading Linux mailingl)
Thu Jan 25 09:15:05 1996
From: linux@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen reading Linux mailinglist)
To: dprinslo@ddafrica.didata.co.za (Danie Prinsloo)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 09:54:27 +0100 (MET)
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
Reply-To: linux-vger@wab-tis.rabobank.nl
According to Danie Prinsloo:
> 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
This sounds like a problem that is more easily (and efficiently) solved
using UUCP than using dial-up IP. UUCP is a batch communication protocol
that was designed for situations like this.
Just setup a UUCP configuration between the central site and the offices,
and setup sendmail or smail to route the mail between the Internet and
the UUCP system.
Rob
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