Feature request for vgetty

• Messages sorted by:[ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 03:30:49AM +0200, Kurt Fitzner wrote:
> On 07-Oct-98 Gert Doering wrote:
> > I'm not sure whether this will work.  Usually, modems do not answer
> > "silently", but start sending their own answering tones quit quickly
> 
> I was thinking of putting this in vgetty, not mgetty.  Any voice modem can
> pick up the line and just listen - no tones sent.

Hmmm.  You could do it with the voice mode (just listen and throw
everything away, except for the <DLE> code for "fax"), this is true.

> > In addition, I don't think this is a feature that should go into mgetty.
> > It will mainly be useful in shared-phone-line scenarios, which isn't
> > really what mgetty was designed for, but will make maintenance harder.
> 
> Shared phone lines may not be what mgetty was made for, but it seems to me
> that it is ideal for vgetty.  I have a small consulting business that runs
> off a single phone line.

For vgetty, it sounds reasonable...

> > The "RING handler" code is already quite messy, and needs rewrite these
> > days, which is hard because of all the stuff that's already there
> > (ringback, nologin, caller ID, vgetty's dynamic change of the number of
> > desired RINGs, ...).

... but we'll have to see how it can be cleanly integrated.

> True.  I'd be willing to write a patch, but if things are going in for a
> rewrite in that area anyways, it might not be the best time.

Please wait for 1.1.19, and then let's see how it will work out.

gert
-- 
USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW!
                                                           //www.muc.de/~gert/
Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert@greenie.muc.de
fax: +49-89-35655025                        gert.doering@physik.tu-muenchen.de