Re: flexfax: Problem with HylaFax

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

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Petr Novotny wrote:

> On 14 Oct 99, at 9:29, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> > HylaFAX *really* requires faxgetty to be running for full functionality.
> > With anything else, you'll get varied results, including what you're
> > experiencing.  What you can do is to set up faxgetty so that it will spawn
> > mgetty when you get an incoming data-call.
> 
> Is that true also in case that incoming calls are data-only (ie. no 
> inbound fax allowed) and HylaFAX serves only outgoing faxes (in 
> case line is not busy with a PPP call)?

That's not "full functionality". It's still a good idea to do: let the
HylaFAX decode the incoming call and decide whether it is a data call
and start getty, which starts PPP in the standard dial-up ritual. This
keeps your modems in the correct configuration more reliably than
trying to somehow use the split-device trick with one device for
dial-in and one device for dial-out on the same physical modem, which
never worked well, or any of the other multiple-programs/one-modem
techniques.

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

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: 2.6.2

iQCVAwUBOAsiEz/+ItycgIJRAQEWtwP9H/XTxcjOPICxAgMvy29i6CyGEmTMX1e8
OTf0KZiGCw6FntmkjPg92z0j8qUPsKo1iHDctOTcfqHg56uDblMWQZnX0dHqUkh0
qFc+Qwm73oWV4VTX28slnFekvNsFSPB2lYgEHhb4B7n9OuxZx267OsmwbWpgs92A
7oRYRca5gUA=
=31KG
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----