Thu 2005-05-05 18:19, Scott Little (3:712/848) wrote to andrew clarke:

 ac>> Possibly opening a can of worms, but can anyone here recommend some
 ac>> free software for Linux (or FreeBSD) that will set up a fax modem to
 ac>> answer fax calls, but if the call was not a fax, fall back to a
 ac>> FidoNet mailer, to work as a FidoNet node?

 SL> mgetty-fax to handle the modem/fax, and ifcico, qico, etc. for Fidonet.

Excellent.  I've installed the FreeBSD port of mgetty tonight (built from
source with Fido support) but have run out of time to play around with it. 
I ended up just installing it on to my main BSD machine instead of using a
separate machine for it.  Then I can basically remove a PC from my network
(yay!).   Hopefully I'll get to finish the install some time this week...
it looks simple enough.  I already have the modem working with WinFax so
I'd be surprised if it won't work with mgetty, and I've already set up
ifcico for FTS-1 over telnet so it should be easy to get that working over
dialup too, then set mgetty to fall to a login prompt if it's not fax/fido.
 My days of wanting to run a BBS are long gone.  :-)

Thanks to all who replied.

Regards
Andrew

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