Using many modems

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Hi Oliver,

Standard phone lines can't be configured to do what you want.  ISDN lines 
can be configured to handle multiple devices but each device has a unique 
SPID to identify it, and require ISDN capable equipment.  Standard modems 
on regular phone lines can not do this.  

Steve

> 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
> 
> -- 
> MfG, 
> 
> Oliver Sturm
> 
> <sturm@ost1.ping.de>
>