Re: [hylafax-users] Can hylafax `proxy' to another hylafax server?

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:43:59AM -0700, Lee Howard wrote:
> > I've also thought of running a daemon on the second server that
> > listens
> > on a TCP port and acts as a TCP <=> serial port pass-through. On the
> > first server, I would have a client for this that listens on a FIFO,
> > and configure the FIFO as a `modem' for Hylafax to use. In this case,
> > there wouldn't need to be a Hylafax server running on the second box
> > at
> > all. Has anyone had any experience with a setup like this? (I realize
> > it's a dirty hack, but it should be at least possible, right?)
> 
> This would be a very cool arrangement... if it worked.  What package 
> would do the TCP <=> serial port pass-through?

umodem.  It makes a program that *wants* a serial port talk through a
telnet connection instead, eg:

ATDT"remote.example.com:236

You have to run the program as a child of umodem, though, so I don't
know how easy it would be to make faxgetty use it.

This is all, I'm betting, HylaFax 5.0-ish stuff.  We're starting to
outgrow outselves.  Time to start doing design work, guys?  Or has it
already started, and no one told *me*?  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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