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Re: [hylafax-users] Fax routing




That sounds pretty cool, but does such a thing exist right now?

                           Matt Sorah
                               MIS
                  Eagle Equipment Corp.



hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/09/2004 03:02:07 PM:

>
> 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.
> > >
> [attachment "attcgpgk.dat" deleted by Matthew Sorah/EAGLEQUIP]


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