Re: (PM) SLC's, PM-3's, and GTE

Jacob Suter (jsuter@intrastar.net)
Tue, 18 Nov 1997 17:17:46 -0600

> What sort of hardware are you suggesting to use? Pm equipment could not do
> this unless you were using TCPIP based communications between both
> parties. Then if you did that, youd need to set up many many dial on
> demand locations for EACH customer's STATIC ip number so that the
> portmangler would dial any customers that were not already on the 'net.
> Or I guess you could use dynamic if you kept some sort of internal table
> but Ive never set up a dialing location with dynamic address allocation
> and I dont know that you can even do that.

Technology isn't here yet... For basic services (over pots) you could
put a DA/AD converter on each of the serial ports on a PM2E and assign
them do different 'attachment' ports (ie dial-out-pm.isp.net:6000,
:6001, etc).. tho I'd really think a whole new box would be in order for
sanity's sake...

JS
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