[83745] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: LAN to LAN dial solution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Crist Clark)
Tue Aug 23 16:09:13 2005
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:07:24 -0700
From: Crist Clark <crist.clark@globalstar.com>
In-reply-to: <30928.195.188.213.34.1124798478.squirrel@195.188.213.34>
To: sbrillus@blueyonder.co.uk
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: crist.clark@globalstar.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
sbrillus@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
> Can anyone suggest, other than using Cisco's a brand of UK-compliant boxes
> that effectively will perform a PSTN dial up function, so that when the
> two boxes are connected, the LAN's are effectively bridged together
>
> Basically what we want to be able to do is connect a PC on a LAN, so that
> at will, a number can be dialed and you can then telnet to the far end
You may be asking something else, but pretty much every PPP implementation
I've ever seen on a UNIX-like system or router has dial on demand
capabilities.
However, I do wonder if you are trying to express something unusual
about this setup by the use of the term "bridged" as opposed to normal
layer-3 routing.
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Crist J. Clark crist.clark@globalstar.com
Globalstar Communications (408) 933-4387
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