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Date:      Tue, 19 Aug 1997 02:22:06 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
Cc:        scott@statsci.com, vas@vas.tsu.tomsk.su, questions@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd questions mailing list)
Subject:   Re: current ppp sources 
Message-ID:  <199708190122.CAA15949@awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 Aug 1997 10:04:45 BST." <199708020904.KAA11535@awfulhak.org> 

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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 :-)

It's in -current and available from http://www.freebsd.org/~brian.  
Check out the 970817 archive (or any subsequent ones).

> > Scott Blachowicz  Ph: 206/283-8802x240   Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div)
> >                                          1700 Westlake Ave N #500
> > scott@statsci.com                        Seattle, WA USA   98109
> > Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org

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Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....





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