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Subject: Re: current ppp sources 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 31 Jul 1997 21:51:02 PDT."
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> Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> wrote:
> 
> > Won't
> > 
> >   set phone "111111:222222:111111:333333"
> > 
> > solve this ?
> 
> How? Isn't it just cycling to the next number every time it tries to dial out?
> What I was thinking of as a normal mode when everything is working right would
> be that the first number is the only one that ever gets dialed. The remaining
> numbers would be fallbacks in case there was some sort of error getting
> connected to the first one. (note that I'm using the -auto flag, so the
> connection times out and gets re-established frequently while the system is
> up).
> 
> Maybe it could be a different syntax to denote fallback numbers like this:
> 
> 	set phone "100|101|102:200|201|202"
> 
> to use ":" to separate numbers that should be used in sequence.  Use "|" to
> separate primary numbers from their fallbacks.  So, in the above, if all of
> the phone numbers are successfully connecting, it would alternate between
> "100" and "200".  It would only try "101" if "100" failed.

Sounds reasonable.  I'll put it on my ever-increasing list :-)

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