On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Cary B. O'Brien wrote:
> 3) As an aside, I may have a requirement for dial-out to
> several hundred sites. I can't imagine several hundred
> slip interfaces and several hundred diald processes.
> Any ideas about how to set this up? Diald would need
> to select from a pool of modems, and then pick the chat
> and pppd config files based on IP address of the target.
Offhand I can't see how you'd do it without several hundred slip
interfaces. That's the way diald works. Several hundred dialds would
also be OK ... they wouldn't use much more memory than one diald.
The computer might respond somewhat slower, though ... you'd probably want
to have a dedicated machine for that. :-) And ps listing would look bad,
but hardly any worse than on a big multiuser site.
You might consider doing it with kerneld and module auto-loading instead
of diald, the way the isdn people(?) do it. I don't know much about it,
but it would probably be more manageable and less configurable.
Ed
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