Subj : syncWXremix and Dial-up
To   : KenDB3
From : echicken
Date : Thu Jan 07 2016 01:42 am

  Re: syncWXremix and Dial-up
  By: KenDB3 to echicken on Thu Jan 07 2016 01:11:30

 Ke> According to DM, user.connection should return a connection speed for a
 Ke> dialup user (e.g. "28800") rather than a protocol string (e.g. "Telnet").
 Ke> So the > 0 made sense. I gave it some mock data, and it returned "true" if
 Ke> I fed it 28800, and "false" if I fed it the word Telnet. 

Yes - I was wrong, and that makes sense.

 Ke> I don't know SEXPOTS (or any dialup to telnet bridge) well enough to know
 Ke> if the Caller ID was going to come back with 10-digit (4162737230),
 Ke> 11-digit (14162737230), +1 format, or even the short 7-digit pattern. So,

It depends entirely on what caller-ID data the modem gives to the BBS, if any. 
There may also be international numbers, which would be entirely different. 
Not worth trying to do a pattern-match, I wouldn't think.

 Ke> I was avoiding testing the user.ip_address field even though the phone
 Ke> number was ending up there. I'm not sure if that behavior is predictable

I think that's where I got confused (I forgot you were using user.connection.) 

 Ke> across the board. If the sysop had dialup but not Caller ID from thier
 Ke> telco, what does SEXPOTS drop into the user.ip_address? Does it work in

I think that DM mentioned that the fallback user.ip_address for SEXPOTS
connections lacking caller-ID info would be the SEXPOTS proxy's IP address. 
This won't always be on the local network - in my case, I run SEXPOTS at home,
but my BBS is elsewhere.

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