unmotivated hang-ups with vgetty

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Hi!

Michael Witschke wrote:
> I use vgetty from the mgetty-1.1.18 package with a USR Sportster
> Message Plus modem. From time to time the modem just stops 
> recording the incoming call and hangs up the line, while the
> caller is still speaking.
[...]
> What did happen here, that made my modem hang up the line?

Impossible to say, because the log level was too low.

> I tried "rec_silence_len 200" and "rec_silence_threshold 30" in
> voice.conf, cause I think it must have something to do with silence 
> detection. 

I would guess too, that the problem is with the silence detection.
Unfortunately not all modems implement the option to set the
sensitivity, which means, that you can't do anything against it,
except telling the callers in the greeting messaege to speak loudly.

Bye,
Marc
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