Re: [hylafax-users] Faxgetty + pppd

[Giulio Orsero <giulioo@pobox.com>]

On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 14:51:13 -0400, "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
wrote:

>> If you faxes are outgoing only, then the best thing, in my opinion, is not
>> to use faxgetty (use faxmodem with appropriate params) and leave modem to
>> mgetty for pppd; this way you handle pppd like you do normally.
>
>But there are differeing opinions on this point.  :-)
>I personally prefer to use faxgetty even on outgoing only modems,
>because it gives you positive status indication about the modem's

Yes, but this is not just an outgoing only modem, it will get incoming pppd,
hopefully at 115200, while faxgetty defaults to 19200 to be safe, then
there's adaptive answer which may or may not work reliably depending on
modem firmware... This is why I'd consider using faxmodem.

-- 
giulioo@pobox.com

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