Re: [hylafax-users] Fax routing

[Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@xxxxxxxx>]

I think the proper way to do this is to put a "hylafax" proxy infront of
multiple fax servers.

Clients use only a single FAXSERVER.  It's simply a "fixed" hfaxd that
accepts the jobs, and instead of submitting it to a local faxq fifo,
re-submits it to a another hfaxd, based on some sort of least-cost
routing engine.

If the proxy is intellegent, and uses triggers, it could always present
a  unified view of the multipe servers without having to continuously
poll them all.

a.

* Matthew Sorah <matthews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [040309 14:56]:
> Much appreciated, don't exactly have time to do it now but will put 
> research to do list.
> 
>                            Matt Sorah
>                                 MIS
>                    Eagle Equipment Corp. 
>  
> 
> 
> hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/09/2004 02:29:48 PM:
> 
> > On 2004.03.09 10:50 Matthew Sorah wrote:
> > > >From looking at the archives. I know that Hylafax can not route
> > > outbound
> > > faxes to a server is local to the phone number needed to be dialed.
> > > (ie a
> > > fax queued to a Hylafax server can be routed to another Hylafax server
> > > 
> > > based on area code, load on server or whatever.) Is this a planned
> > > feature
> > > for the next major release?  Just thought I ask.
> > 
> > It's on the wish-list.  But I don't think that anyone is seriously 
> > undertaking it yet.
> > 
> > You can get similar results now, though, by creating a "faxsend 
> > wrapper" (search the archives for it).  It doesn't offset the faxq 
> > load, but it would offset modem load or facilitate least-cost-routing, 
> > etc.  So basically to offset faxq load it would require a faxq rewrite.
> > 
> > Lee.
> >

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