Distinctive Ringing

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Hi,

On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 01:50:38PM -0400, Marc Howard Zuckman wrote:
> ring service on my sole POTS line.  The idea is to
> receive voice on one ring/number combination and
> data/fax on the other.  I want my conventional answering
> machine to handle the voice part, not vgetty. Despite
> several attempts at defining ring_type and rings
> in the voice.conf file, I have been unsuccesful in
> discriminating between calls received with one ring type
> vs the other.  The modem either always answers or
> ignores incoming calls, irrespective of the ring_type.

I think the first step should be to make sure that the modem recognizes
distinctive RINGs at all.  Please switch it on, call in (with both RING
types), and then show us the mgetty/vgetty log file showing those two
calls.  (ONLY those two calls!).

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> While I'm sure this must have been covered in the archives
> previously, my searches of them for distinctive ringing 
> always turn up empty.

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gert

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