On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:18, I. Forbes wrote: > > I have been thinking of implementing a way of telling Portslave to pass > > the port to another program to allow minicom or a FAX transmission to > > take the port. > > I think the answer lies in by-passing radius. If we had a facility like > mgetty's "login.config" file which could decide whether to run a > radius based program, or a local one instead, the flexibility would > go up by an order of magnitude. It would also make hacks like my > UUCP one work. > > Perhaps the same or a similar configuration file could tell portslave > how to handle incoming calls detected by the modem as being > voice or fax as opposed to data calls.
Sure, I could add that. Write a spec. > > > Is it possible to call up the patched pppd from mgetty and use > > > radius authentication and accounting? > > > > Sure you could have the mgetty detect the PPP frames and run pppd with > > appropriate parameters to load the Portslave library. > > Is there a documentation for the new options on the patched pppd? There is in the latest version which was uploaded to Debian and Sourceforge last night. > In my opinion Hylfax is by far the best fax package. It allows Class > 1 or Class 2 modems to be used. Mgetty's fax facility only allows > Class 2. As over 90% of domestic quality 56k modems either have > no Class 2 support, or Class 2 that is so buggy that it is not worth > using this is a big plus factor. (Almost all Windows faxing software > uses Class 1 mode.) > > Hylafax has a "faxgetty" program that answers the modem. It allows > dial-out like mgetty, but it also communicates with the hylafax > daemon to report on the status of the modem. It has facilities for > calling alternate programs for voice and data calls. I am not sure if > it can detect ppp frames. It shouldn't be that difficult to write some code that can recognise FAX as well as PPP, they are very different... -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
