From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 9 17:38:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D3A16A41C for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 17:38:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@philip.pjkh.com) Received: from zhonka1.zhonka.net (zhonka1.zhonka.net [66.228.195.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30C9A43D1D for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 17:38:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@philip.pjkh.com) Received: from wolf.pjkh.com ([66.228.196.74]) by zhonka1.zhonka.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-58414U4500L450S0V35) with ESMTP id net for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:38:22 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wolf.pjkh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 032ED58C9 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:38:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wolf.pjkh.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (wolf.pjkh.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 89493-07 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:38:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wolf.pjkh.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C286258C8; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:38:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wolf.pjkh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEE4856BB for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:38:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:38:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050609103010.V89816@wolf.pjkh.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at pjkh.com Subject: Outsourcing a modem pool for dialup? Any advice? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:38:29 -0000 Hi all - Our company has a product such that a small server is installed at each customer site. This server dials up to the Internet every night and exchanges some content with a central server in our data center. Total transaction takes about 5 minutes. Customers can have multiple sites. Our largets to date has three, but some potentials have several hundred. In the cases where the site does not have an existing Internet connection we currently use dialup via a major ISP. This works for now, but won't for the long haul for a couple of reasons: - they all are all sharing the same username and password (yes yes, I know...) - we're moving into canada and this ISP doesn't have many local numbers up there. - Dealing with local numbers and their somewhat frequent changing is a real headache. What I want is a modem pool with one local number (tied into an 800 number) where I can create as many username/password pairs as needed. I want that local number to never change :-) Now... to make it fun... - No, I can't install a dialup server in our corporate datacenter. - No, I can't setup a freebsd server in satellite office. That leaves me with an outsourced solution that needs to work with FreeBSD's PPP. Anyone know of anyone that does this sort of thing? Or an ISP that has a service geared towards this (our current one does not). Thanks! -philip