Re: flexfax: End Of Page error (EOP)

[Damian Ivereigh <damian@cisco.com>]

Hi Steve,

Send a patch to the list. It'll then get archived by the kind soul who
does this (Phil Watkinson).

Damian

Steven Pham wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have made a small change in Class20.c++ to
> ignore hangup code from the remote fax when sending
> EOP.
> 
> It's working now but not sure if it has any side effect !
> 
> Steven
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ulrich.Eckhardt@transcom.de [mailto:Ulrich.Eckhardt@transcom.de]
> > Sent: Monday, October 26, 1998 11:41 PM
> > To: flexfax@sgi.com
> > Cc: Steven Pham
> > Subject: Re: flexfax: End Of Page error (EOP)
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > this is a common problem with HylaFAX and some broken fax
> > machines which does not implement the fax protocol correctly.
> > I have here an failure rate at approximately 1%-2%. This
> > problems happens always to the same customers. These gets the
> > faxes 3 times and they aren't very happy about this.
> >
> > Can't we change the behaviour of HylaFAX that it ignores
> > when EOP failed after the last page ?. If someone knows
> > a good documentation about the fax protocol on the web,
> > so that i can dig through the source and try to find a
> > solution (help appreciated).
> >
> > Uli
> >
> > Steven Pham wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I've installed Hylafax 4.02 on Solaris with USR Sporter Fax modem x2.
> > > Everything seems to work fine except one error at the end of
> > each session
> > > when Hylafax trying to tell the fax machine that this is the End Of Page
> > > (EOF) but the fax modem either doesn't understant the command of decide
> > > to hangup. So Hylafax think the session is not ended properly.
> > >
> > > Here is the log:
> > > Oct 26 18:01:49.37: [  661]: SEND end page
> > > Oct 26 18:01:49.37: [  661]: SEND send EOP (no more pages or documents)
> > > Oct 26 18:01:49.37: [  661]: <-- data [2]
> > > Oct 26 18:02:05.52: [  661]: --> [7:+FHS:54]
> > > Oct 26 18:02:05.52: [  661]: REMOTE HANGUP: No response to EOP
> > repeated 3
> > > times (code 54)
> > > Oct 26 18:02:05.52: [  661]: <-- [5:ATH0\r]
> > > Oct 26 18:02:05.65: [  661]: --> [2:OK]
> > > Oct 26 18:02:05.65: [  661]: MODEM set DTR OFF
> > > Oct 26 18:02:05.65: [  661]: STATE CHANGE: SENDING -> MODEMWAIT
> > (timeout 5)
> > > Oct 26 18:02:05.65: [  661]: SESSION END
> > >
> > > Any help is appreciate.
> > >
> > > Thank you
> >
> > --
> > Ulrich Eckhardt                         Tr@nscom GbR
> > http://people.frankfurt.netsurf.de/uli  http://www.transcom.de
> >                                         Lagerstra_e 11-15 A8
> >                                         64807 Dieburg Germany
> >

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