[1694] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Linux as a dial-up router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Thu Jan 25 22:33:46 1996
To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Date: 25 Jan 1996 12:06:51 +0100
In article <199511120053.CAA10335@ddafrica.didata.co.za>,
Danie Prinsloo <dprinslo@ddafrica.didata.co.za> wrote:
>Good evening,
>
>My company has 14 offices in Africa and have a great problem in getting
>communications going to all these different countries.
>[...]
>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
You don't want to use SLIP or PPP for this. UUCP is really
what you want. It is not showing it's age yet, and it
was developed for exactly the kind of thing you want to do.
Mike.
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