Using many modems

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On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Oliver Sturm wrote:

> > You need one phone line for each modem.  If you want them
> > to answer on the "same" number, tell your phone service you
> > want "hunting".  With hunting, if a phone line is busy, an
> > incoming call will be routed to the next line in the "hunt"
> > group.
> > 
> I think I wasn't precise enough... I have all modems attached to a
> telephone system which already takes care that the modems can all be
> reached via the same number from the outside. What I want to do is
> configure the server as a fax-system which can receive a great number of
> faxes at the same time. But I don't want to tell everyone who is going
> to send me a fax several different numbers. 
> 
> What happens now is that all modems receive a ring signal in exactly the
> same moment. What I would like to have is some configuration option that
> can tell mgetty (or the several separate instances, that is), that if
> several calls arrive in the same <amount of time, maybe half a second>,
> only one of the modems receiving the RING should answer the call, not
> all at the same time (that's what happens now ;()

Well it seems to me that u can't fix in mgetty (actually you could with
some work (at least i think so)) something that is broken somewhere else.
It seems to that it's "the telephone system" that u refer, take takes care
of "this thing" is broken, since i should only assign the call for a
certain phone, instead of all of them.

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