My company has expressed an interest in setting up a dial-out port at work. They wish to have it set up so that a person sitting at their machine could just start up their communication program and dial their number. The port itself would select an open line and dial the number. Also, the machine would occassionally scan for lines that are open but have been idle for a set time and disconnect them. Right now, we have a manual dial-out port set up.
Every machine has a serial line attached to their computer.
Perhaps get a multi-serial port set up with all the modems attached to it and then somehow set it up to for this purpose. What we basically would like is dial-in lines in reverse. Instead of the machine picking the first available modem when an incoming call comes in, it would pick the first available modem when a call wants to go out. We already have a Linux machine on our network, running 1.2.13 as our internet server.