Re: (PM) remote monitoring

Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com)
Fri, 10 Jul 1998 13:44:17 -0500 (CDT)

On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Jon Lewis wrote:

> > similar problems? I'm also consideringas an alternative to a dedicated box
> > siting a linux box with a modem and a 4 port serial card at each location,
> > but thats getting more and more pricey...
>
> You could probably do it with PM11's, but I'm leaning toward doing it with
> Linux boxes. That way, that Linux box can be a caching DNS server, act as
> primary or secondary radius server for the remote POP, and act as your
> backdoor for dialing in when there's a problem.

If you already have a linux box, then that is okay but I wouldnt set up a
linux box JUST to do that because it is more complex, hackable, etc...

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