vgetty - off hook after 1st ring

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Hi Yenya!

Jan Kasprzak wrote:
> 	I wonder why the vgetty refuses to pick up the phone before
> the second RING. Is this for the CallerID service? In our phone network

Yes.

> there is no CallerID and I want to have my voice application as

It's impossible to tell, whether a user gets caller id or not, so I
assume the worst case.

> fast as it can be. I need to make vgetty to answer the call after
> the first RING. I need to answer ~2000 of phone calls on the six
> modems, it means ~333 calls per modem in 1 or 2 days. I want this
> system to have maximum throughput and dont want the caller to wait
> for another ring.
> 
> Of course, I can edit the appropriate place at the end of
> voice/vgetty/rings.c file. But I wonder whether there is anybody

Please do so, if you need this.

> else with the same problem. I think it would be wise to turn the
> overwriting *rings_wanted to 2 into a warning message, which will
> tell that you vgetty will not be able to receive the CallerID. I
> don't like programs that tries to be more clever than they can be
> - if I write "rings 1" to the config file, it means _I_ want the call
> to be answered after the first ring.
> 
> Or is there any reason for that other than the CallerID service?

Vgetty allowed to set the number of rings to 1 for quite a while, but
after I got twenty or so complains, that vgetty dosen't work (because
the users had caller id and set rings to 1), I decided to allow only
2 or more rings. I have to maintain vgetty in my free time and it
didn't help to write, that you need at least rings set to 2. Users
set rings to 1 and complained. I was tired of this, it just costs me
time, so I decided to force a minimum of 2 rings. Sorry for you in
this case, please edit the source code, but my experience was, that
it is necessary to have this check.

Bye,
Marc
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