> By "dual connection" I meant dual simultaneous connections. E.g.: > dialing up from my laptop while my desktop is already connected to my > ISP. Rather than blocking this action, Earthlink charges $1/hr for the > simultaneous connection.
I see. I remember seeing some 56kx2 modem (by diamond) for windows and ISP service to use them as a bundle to get ISDN like speed. I remember seeing Netcomm being one of the supporting ISP. I thought you found a way for Linix to bundle 2 dial-up connections. Oh well. > > My reminder for people using multiple ISP is to make sure to use SMTP > > relay provided by the ISP for sending mail. Most ISPs started blocking > > SMTP connection to outside last 12 month. This is true for MSN, AOL, > > Earthlink, ... etc. This is a good policy to prevent some SPAM. > > Earthlink was allowing my mails sent from other ISPs to be relayed > through the Earthlink SMTP server while I was travelling earlier this > year. It looks like, whatever From address we use, as long as we are in their dial-up IP range, they seem to relay any mail. Very weak SPAM retardant. > Naturally, once you're on the wild, you may be able to transmit > mail either directly from your system's MTA, or through the smarthost > for the network you're currently active on. Yes if you use ssh to get outside of Earthlink dial-up network. I do this with my home system on [EMAIL PROTECTED] cable and Earthlink. But Earthlink has some packet filter on their network to prevent dial-up hosts to transmit mails directly to outside through SMTP. POP3 ports are open. This is very standard process for any dial-up SMTP conection these days. (It was not like this about year ago.) > My usual practice is to keep a system online and ssh into it for mail. Yes for Linux. But I sometimes need evil OS software. > Agreed. There's also an 800 number locator service that can be used > within the US, and possibly Canada / Mexico. Also you can call California using ATT calling card using expense account if it is for work. It is noisy and slow but works with minimum hussle. Time is money :-) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + My debian quick-reference, http://qref.sourceforge.net/quick/ +
