Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 10:04:45 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: scott@statsci.com Cc: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, vas@vas.tsu.tomsk.su, questions@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd questions mailing list) Subject: Re: current ppp sources Message-ID: <199708020904.KAA11535@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Jul 1997 21:51:02 PDT." <199708010451.VAA04884@knife.statsci.com>
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> Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> wrote:
>
> > Won't
> >
> > set phone "111111:222222:111111:333333"
> >
> > solve this ?
>
> How? Isn't it just cycling to the next number every time it tries to dial out?
> What I was thinking of as a normal mode when everything is working right would
> be that the first number is the only one that ever gets dialed. The remaining
> numbers would be fallbacks in case there was some sort of error getting
> connected to the first one. (note that I'm using the -auto flag, so the
> connection times out and gets re-established frequently while the system is
> up).
>
> Maybe it could be a different syntax to denote fallback numbers like this:
>
> set phone "100|101|102:200|201|202"
>
> to use ":" to separate numbers that should be used in sequence. Use "|" to
> separate primary numbers from their fallbacks. So, in the above, if all of
> the phone numbers are successfully connecting, it would alternate between
> "100" and "200". It would only try "101" if "100" failed.
Sounds reasonable. I'll put it on my ever-increasing list :-)
> Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div)
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