Re: Hylafax and PPP?

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

At 08:45 AM 7/29/97 -0500, Leslie Mikesell wrote:
>> At 09:33 AM 7/29/97 +1000, Robert Colquhoun wrote:
>
>> >
>> >Get hylafax to look at mgetty for its getty and egetty programs
>
>> I was looking at doing the same thing but ran into an unanswered question;
>> Does this mean I'd have to disable mgetty's FAX recieve abilities? I was
>> thinking to run mgetty instead of faxgetty, would this not work?
>
>That should work, but you'll lose a little on the outbound side since
>faxq won't know the state the modem unless faxgetty is running and
>it won't be able to detect the 1-D vs. 2-D encoding capability of
>the modem.  Why would you prefer mgetty's fax reception over faxgetty's
>anyway?  

It's not a preference, just that I've been running mgetty for some time now
and I  new to HylaFAX. However, I am using mgetty to process dial-in, PPP,
and FidoNet calls, AWA, FAX. My concern is that ALL these call types get
processed correctly.

If I can get a confirmation;
I run faxgetty on the port, in inittab.
This hands the call off to mgetty if it's not a FAX call.
mgetty can then handle the dial-in/PPP/FidoNet call as normal
mgetty's FAX capabilities are disabled.

>I always thought someone should glue a 'built-in' getty
>for data into faxgetty (keeping the external one as an option) since
>there is next to nothing involved when the modem speed is locked and
>it already knows about utmp entries.  Then it could do the same trick
>as mgetty to auto-detect PPP without having to exec an intermediate
>program.  (Of course I've been too lazy to try this myself...).

It's a little more complex than that. PPP isn't the only thing folks dial
into a Unix system for. There's normal shell dial-in, FidoNet mailer
support, PPP (of course), RADIUS server support., UUCP (still around
folks), plus proprietary/custom special purpose program support (weather
station, data logging support, etc). 

I do most of the above. I might be a good point that I'm over-working my
poor modems <grin>.

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Roeland M.J. Meyer (RM993)                                  
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