Re: flexfax: Volume questions

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, David Birnbaum wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> We're getting ready to deploy a rather large fax application...I was
> wondering, does anyone have any practical experience with the Hylafax
> software and how much it can handle?  We're looking at a four-CPU SPARC
> machine running Solaris, with potentially 96 modems attached to it, and
> potentially several of these machines.  We're looking to use Hylafax,
> since it gives us the source to put in our own hooks and enhancements, but
> I haven't heard of anyone using it with more than 8 modems attached to it.

Bless you! What a wonderful use of freeware! Have you looked into what
brand of modem you will use?

> Any comments before we get started?  As a side effect of doing this with
> Hylafax, we'll probably have some nifty features of our own to release
> back into the Hylafax community, but it it would be nice to hear of others
> treading some of this ground in the past.

Are you supporting dial-up modem use, or fax service only? I assume
that you are running Solaris 2.6: be aware that the asppp
implementation under Solaris was famous for difficulties in previous
versions of Solaris.  You may want to proceed directly to ppp-2.3.5,
at ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp/.

Also, if you want to explore how to answer the modem directly as fax
or PPP or data, look into using mgetty.

			Nico Kadel-Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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