andrew clarke wrote in a message to Scott Little:

 ac> Tue 2005-05-10 05:07, Scott Little (3:712/848) wrote to andrew
 ac> clarke: 

 ac>> Well, I have mgetty receiving faxes now!  I don't have any easy way to
 ac>> test whether the front-end mailer (ifcico) works though.  If anyone
 ac>> has any free time on their hands, and can afford the cost of the call,
 ac>> could they netmail 3:633/267 at +61-3-9787-8373, ie. poll via dialup.

 SL> I get CONNECT 14400/ARQ and then garble.  The modem port might need
 SL> some setserial action... even though it claims it's not
 SL> necessary/obsolete, I find setting it manually to 38400 or 57600
 SL> fixes this most of the time.

 ac> Hmm, well there's no setserial in FreeBSD.  I have "speed 38400"
 ac> set in mgetty.config though.  I managed to find an old Swann V34
 ac> modem and my very first modem, a Telecom TEL 424.  The best I could
 ac> get was a 2400 baud connect. 

 ac> I tend to think the answering modem is faulty or that the line
 ac> quality is so bad that the modem can't deal with it.  Sending a fax
 ac> to it has been perfect though, so the line is probably not too bad.
 ac> It's a Genius GM56flexE-G2, set to factory defaults (AT&F).  I
 ac> might need to hunt around for another modem I think. 

 ac> The Swann V34 was useless on the answering side as it hangs up
 ac> shortly after the CONNECT FAX when being called from a fax machine
 ac> (newish Samsung). 

Is this mgetty thing what I'd need to be able to send faxes?  I suppose I'd
need to install it on the firewall/router box where the modem is actually
connected,  then?

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