On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I cannot figure out how to configure ppp on bearing or dachstein for my > situation. > > the scenario: > > 1) one head office and 10 very small branch offices (they all have ISDN > lines, no xDSL available) > 2) during night, the head office should call one by one every branch office > to move some data (with demand dialling). > > Note: actually 11 cisco routers do the job. > > I think it is possible to create 10 ppp0...ppp9 links in head-linux each > with one subnet to route to. When there is data to move, pppd should call > the right tel. number and estabilish the connection.
I don't think pppX interfaces work that way... you only get ten pppX interfaces if you have ten simultaneous connections. You have an issue with contention for the data path to these ten places... only one at a time. This is not a common networking configuration these days. I did a google search and found http://www.methods.co.nz/connect/ and on freshmeat found http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=connectd§ion=projects, but I haven't heard of either variant of connectd being packaged for LEAF yet. (Not clear why freshmeat described altconnect as shareware... it says GPL though not in the legally correct fashion.) Another solution would be to simply have all offices dial into the internet at predetermined times and let the data transfer take place through the internet in those intervals. Might need a dynamic dns for each site, but that is not so hard. Have to be more concerned about security during the transfer, but scp is very nice for that. > I can install a leaf in each office, but i've very little knowledge in ppp > but i don't know how to configure it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Caffeinated soap. No kidding. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
