Re: [hylafax-users] EOP failures

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2005.02.10 09:49 Tanel Kokk wrote:
> Lee Howard wrote:
> > On 2005.02.10 09:07 Tanel Kokk wrote:
> >
> > > # try transmitting every page three times, continue
> > > # if 3rd try fails as well
> > > max-tries 3
> > > max-tries-continue y
> >
> >
> > I assume that "continue" means disconnect, redial, and transmit the 
> > next pages.  Does this actually help anything?  Do the next pages go 
> > through without any error?  I would worry about this kind of fax 
> > behavior because "no response to EOP" is indicative of a problem - 
> > and we don't know what it is - sometimes the receiver gets the page 
> > still.  So if this error happened on every page of a 30-page fax 
> > then they would get 90 pages total faxed to them in 90 calls, taking 
> > up probably more than two hours of modem time.
>
> As I have understood, it does'n mean redialing. It just ignore errors 
> of "end of page handshaking" and will continue with next page.

Well, first of all, "EOP" means end of page and no more pages to 
follow.  So with what I said above I meant to say "no response to MPS" 
instead of EOP.  So if you're seeing a no response to EOP error, then 
there are no more pages to send anyway.

So if you get an error of no response to MPS... then if you don't 
disconnect and redial... well, trying to send the next page without 
getting the page confirmation from the receiver is like shooting in the 
dark.  You may hit something, but you certainly couldn't aim for 
anything.

> From mgetty manual:
> ------
> max-tries-continue y
>
> After the maximum number of tries for one page are reached, sendfax 
> can report an error and abort (max-tries-continue no), or go on with 
> the next page (yes).
> ------

This seems to be an RTN related thing, not protocol error.

Lee.

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