distinguished ring question

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Hi,

I'm getting a bit confused about distinguished ring, hope some one can update 
me a bit

I'm living in canada, and Bell-canada has a feature they call 'Ident a call', 
here is it the confusing
already strarts... is 'Ident a call' the same as distinguished ring ? At this 
moment i have one line with 2 numbers. The difference when you call the second 
number is not the tone of the ring but it rings twice shortly after the first 
ring.

Both my modems (a US robotics and a Generic Rockwell) detect 2 rings shortly 
after each other.
When i look in the code of mgetty i find the ring_chat_action table, this 
table maps, as far as i can see, the modem results to an internal action. In 
this table are 5 different result codes for the different types of rings. 
Looking at this table i suppose my modem must be able to see the difference 
between the types of rings already and will return a different result code for 
the different types of rings .

Did i oversee something, is 'Ident a call' not the same as distinguished ring ?

If 'Ident a call' is not the same as distinguised ring, is there a possibility 
to configure mgetty (or vgetty) in such a way it will make a difference 
between the 2 types of ringing ?





Cor


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