Dear GroupStudy, Here is my interesting dilemma. I hope someone can lend some insight...
1 - I only have dial-up (no cable modem - i.e. no constant connection to Internet). 2 - I travel for work, so I'm not home very often. 3 - I have a lab that I would like to use rather often. 4 - I do not want to spend a lot of $$ on long distance to dial up my lab. 5 - I also do not want to spend a lot of $$ on electricity if the lab is not in use. 6 - I have (will have) an APC MasterSwitch PDU that I know can be used to remotely power up/power down the lab. 7 - The lab consists of all 2500 series routers (7 of them). I do not know if I can dial in to the PDU in order to power up the lab (this I can figure out). Once the lab is powered up, is there a way to have one of the routers dial up my ISP? But then, how would I know what the IP address of the router is (since the ISP uses DHCP) in order to telnet to the lab? One of the solutions I have thought of is to dial up my PC (with wake on LAN - if that works on the modem), disconnect. Then the dial up connection would be in my startup folder so the PC would dial the ISP automatically. Then I would dial up the ISP from wherever I would be. Then I still have the problem of knowing my IP address. A friend said to use ICQ. I don't know how that works, but will try it. I think I have covered everything. Thanks in advance for any help. Jake Secrist Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=54768&t=54768 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
