[1693] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Linux as a dial-up router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Cameron)
Thu Jan 25 21:33:50 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 22:18:08 +0200 (GMT+0200)
From: Andrew Cameron <andrew@andy.alt.za>
To: Danie Prinsloo <dprinslo@ddafrica.didata.co.za>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199511120053.CAA10335@ddafrica.didata.co.za>
On Wed, 24 Jan 1996, Danie Prinsloo wrote:
> 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.
>
> --------------------------------
> Danie Prinsloo
> (The Baron)
> dprinslo@ddafrica.didata.co.za
>
>
>
All you need to do is to configure your Linux System to talk UUCP to the
remote systems. This is fairly easy to do.
Have a look at the UUCP Howto.
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