Re: flexfax: No response to MPS with old fax machines..

["Mark Wilson (P. Kay Associates)" <percy@woodrow.demon.co.uk>]

Hi,
Try tying down the speed for this particular destination by prefixing the
speed line in /var/spool/fax/info/phone_no (phone_no being the
destination no.) with an ampersand, and reducing the actual BPS mentioned
there; f'rinstance, change maxSignallingRate:"14400" to
&maxSignallingRate:"4800"

This cured similar problem for me; I guessed that the remote fax was
lying about how fast it could go.

Mark Wilson
P. Kay Associates Ltd.

On Mon, 15 Jun 1998 harris@hightide.net.au wrote:

> 
> Mornin' all..
> 
> We've got a redhat 5.1 box (kernel 2.0.33) running Hylafax 4.0pl2, it was
> working fine for
> quite some time until we decided to tempt fate and change modems. We
> dropped in an US robotics Sportster voice Rev. 10.1.67.
> 
> Everything works absolutely perfectly for sending and receiving faxes,
> until we send to one particular fax machine when it sends one page, fax
> machine and modem have a stare off for a few seconds and then the modem
> times out waiting for a response to the MPS (Logs at tend of message.) it
> works fine with newer fax machines though.
> 
> I've seen some refrences to problems with sportsters while looking through
> the documentation but haven't been able to find something which lists the
> actual symptoms and workarounds, if anyone could aim me in the right
> direction I'd be a very happy boi..
> 
> Congrats and kudos on hylafax to all the developers btw, the old 486 we
> were using to just to check it out has worked so well even for our
> largish office worked so well it's been moved into production. Great
> program ;).
> 
> Jun 11 05:03:23.19: [ 1504]: <-- data [384]
> Jun 11 05:03:23.19: [ 1504]: SENT 12672 bytes of data
> Jun 11 05:03:23.19: [ 1504]: SEND 1D RTC
> Jun 11 05:03:23.19: [ 1504]: <-- data [9]
> Jun 11 05:03:26.01: [ 1504]: SEND end page
> Jun 11 05:03:26.01: [ 1504]: SEND send MPS (more pages, same document)
> Jun 11 05:03:26.01: [ 1504]: <-- data [2]
> Jun 11 05:03:42.92: [ 1504]: --> [7:+FHS:52]
> Jun 11 05:03:42.92: [ 1504]: REMOTE HANGUP: No response to MPS repeated 3
> times (code 52)
> Jun 11 05:03:42.92: [ 1504]: <-- [5:ATH0\r]
> Jun 11 05:03:43.05: [ 1504]: --> [2:OK]
> Jun 11 05:03:43.05: [ 1504]: SESSION END
> 
> 
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> 
> Harris Vaegan-Lloyd     ~HIGHTIDE~      Hightide Internet Pty Limited
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