Using many modems

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Gert Doering wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 07:57:39PM +0100, 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.
> 
> This is very easy: make sure that your "telephone system" sends RINGs

Well, what's "Telefonanlage" in english?? Until someone tells me, I'll
still call  it telephone system ;)

> only to *one* modem at a time.  If that one is busy, use the next one.
> 
> Having all modems RING at the same time is a bad idea for obvious reasons
> (locking, lots of failed calls, modem reinitialization dead time, etc.).
> 
> Effectively, make your telephone system view the modems as a "hunt group"
> 
Well, I didn't really have the idea of configuring my telephone system
to do that work for me... seems pretty easy that way. Anyway, the
problem is still the same to me, because I know lots of people who have
a telephone system that doesn't have such a function (my small company
included). What's more, people might be attaching up to seven (or was it
eight) modems (or terminal adaptors) to an ISDN-line without any
telephone system, so all these devices continue to get the RING at once. 

Gert, no offense ment, but the behaviour of mgetty, if it gets several
rings at once coming from the same call, isn't plausible. I'll have to
see if I still got those old logs where you can see that two running
mgetty-instances kind of "take away" the call from each other.


Thanks very much for the useful advice anyway.

Oliver

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