LAN to LAN dial solution

Tue Aug 23 20:07:24 UTC 2005

sbrillus at blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
> Can anyone suggest, other than using Cisco's a brand of UK-compliant boxes
> that effectively will perform a PSTN dial up function, so that when the
> two boxes are connected, the LAN's are effectively bridged together
> 
> Basically what we want to be able to do is connect a PC on a LAN, so that
> at will, a number can be dialed and you can then telnet to the far end

You may be asking something else, but pretty much every PPP implementation
I've ever seen on a UNIX-like system or router has dial on demand
capabilities.

However, I do wonder if you are trying to express something unusual
about this setup by the use of the term "bridged" as opposed to normal
layer-3 routing.
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