I'm an old-timer, but I've been out of the major mailing-lists for some
time (too much volume, and we had a very low mail quota here). I'm back
now, so you can send your answers either to the list or just to myself.
I am looking for CURRENTLY ACCURATE pointers to these topics (see subject)
URLs, complete working programs or sample code are all welcome.
Basically, setting up an intermittent network connection over the phone
lines, because a reliable Internet is not readily available.
I need Dial-on-Demand because the calls are international, so I have to
use the minimum time on-line, but make the connections trasparent to the
networks behind the machines. Call-back to reduce costs by calling from
Canada only even for incoming connections.
Multi-link is my biggest question -- ideally I would like a variable
bandwidth made of one or more phone lines together as one virtual
conection. When required, additional lines should be used, and dropped
when not needed anymore to save phone costs.
Unless you suggest anything else, I plan on using mgetty, a recent pppd
with 2+ analog modems (either USR eh... 3COM's or Motorola's), and
anything else required to make it work. I have never done call-back in
linux before, but I'm used to regular (including multi-port boards)
dial-in/dial-out and pppd 2.2.0f.
The PPP-HOWTO is way out of date, so please point me to the URL where I
can get the latest pppd package (somewhere in Australia...?). It might
solve some of my problems, I remember from a long time ago that DOD was
being incorporated directly into pppd to make diald obsolete, but I don't
know the current status, whether done and/or stable. I just wanted to ask
before downloading anything old...
I also see apparently two versions of the Net-HOWTO on gatech/sunsite:
-rw-r--r-- 1 10248 1608 190993 Apr 27 18:33 NET-3-1.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 10248 1608 190995 May 10 01:26 NET-3-HOWTO
why is this so?
Thank you,
TP
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