Re: flexfax: sharing a modem with pppd

[Helen Birkmann <hbirkmann@mkl.com>]

On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Nico Garcia wrote:

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> On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote:
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> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'd like to know if it's possible in hylafax to send a fax through the
> > modem being used by pppd.
> > 
> > I mean: if I can turn of pppd, send a fax, and turn pppd on again.
> > 
> > I tryied doing this, but seems that the hylafax server insists on
> > resolving my machine's name when it gets a requisition, so that, when
> > I try to use "sendfax" when pppd is off, I'll get a message:
> > 
> > 
> > Service not available, remote server closed connection
> 
> Hmm. Sounds like PPP and HylaFAX are not (directly) the problem, but
> rather your domain name resolution when you don't have PPP running. Do
> you have a default fax server set up with FAXSERVER somewhere? Try
> killing the PPP, and seeing if you can run "faxstat -v".
> 
> If that doesn't work, try setting your FAXSERVER to "localhost" and see
> what you get....
> 
> 			Nico Garcia
> 			Engineer, CIRL 
> 			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
> 			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu
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We are using BSDI 3.0 and the instructions read specifically that the
getty daemon should NOT be used on the same modem that you are setting up
for hylafax.

Regards
Helen
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