From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 9 18:10:09 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 B40F516A422 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 18:10:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 667B743D48 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 18:10:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 9so281280nzo for ; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:10:05 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=KMQnU4f7UXrft54WTYV06I0VeINne7F/aTX5PjCQ3RrOalaPLHTMqpnoptzD+kKGoemuZXKwtRdkPdaVo8H4PAWSWXHEa17DGpbb4iuY2WSuI0I2ACdCM11Tk+JRCHtszBZvyllJ1jItyp8VPa2wCiILSAezL83c+8jnv56Ge/4= Received: by 10.36.46.15 with SMTP id t15mr552505nzt; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:10:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ringworm.mechee.com ([4.28.64.41]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 20sm1240524nzp.2005.06.09.11.10.04; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:10:05 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael C. Shultz" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 11:10:12 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20050609103010.V89816@wolf.pjkh.com> In-Reply-To: <20050609103010.V89816@wolf.pjkh.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506091110.12782.ringworm01@gmail.com> Subject: Re: 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 18:10:09 -0000 On Thursday 09 June 2005 10:38, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > 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 You may not like the price but the local phone company likely provides this service. -Mike