From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Oct 30 06:42:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA12210 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 06:42:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from wicked.eaznet.com ([206.62.254.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA12203 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 06:42:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eddie@eaznet.com) Received: from eaznet.com (as1-27.eaznet.com [206.62.254.235]) by wicked.eaznet.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA19089; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 07:45:03 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <34589DB9.E97EA59E@eaznet.com> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 07:46:17 -0700 From: Eddie Fry X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Barry Pool , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multi Pathing References: <3.0.1.32.19971030080752.007c3cb0@wico.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well, I called the Corporation Commission (that's the "PUC" in AZ) and they said they'd look into it. It was kind of strange, I didn't have to wait on hold and the lady looking into it even asked for my e-mail address. I'm kind of wondering if I really called a "government" agency! Thanks for everyone's reply. I'll let you know what happens. Eddie Barry Pool wrote: > We do something similar to this except we are going through sites that are local to our area and another that is not. Basically, we are using call forwarding to route calls to us and avoid long distance. > > The phone company was the one that put me on to the idea. When I questioned if a local phone company, also a competitor, would do this or deny they could, the guy from GTE said, "If they were tariffed to do it, they could not say no." > > Not sure how you would find out that kind of information, but it might be worth doing some checking. > > Also, when I did call the local company, I did not tell them what I was going to do with the lines. Only that I had a business that needed a single phone number and that I want to use one number with multiple paths for data entry in a remote area for multiple users. > > Hope some of this helps. > > Good Luck! > > Barry > > Barry Pool > Wings Communications > 765-364-1877 > barry@wico.net -- Eddie Fry eddie@eaznet.com EAZNet Internet Services http://www.eaznet.com 220 West 7th Street Safford, AZ 85546 EAZing you into the future...