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On 2002.09.25 20:48 B. Watson wrote: > > Hi. I'm setting up a send-only hylafax server, with 4 modems, > eventually > to be upgraded to 8 if all goes well. This will be a pretty busy > server, > with hundreds of outgoing faxes/day. > > I've been reading over the FAQ and HOWTO, and am slowly picking my way > through the mailing list archives. So far I haven't found an answer to > this question, hopefully it isn't a dumb question: > > Can Hylafax use another Hylafax server to send faxes? Yes, but not well and not "as designed" or "out of the box". > Here's the situation: I have a fully-functional Hylafax server with > 4 modems, and a spare PC I can attach 2 more modems to (or 4, for the > price of an add-in ISA card (probably free, if I look through my parts > bin)). I'd like to have the existing server send its excess traffic to > the second server, which will then use its locally-attached modems to > send out those faxes. You'd have to write a faxsend wrapper that did all of the dirty work for you and then either called on faxsend.orig to send the faxes locally or on 'sendfax -h' to send them remotely. Ultimately it wouldn't be a very pretty arrangement because you'd probably have to play a million tricks to keep faxq happy and notify sensible. > I realize there would be the issue of error reporting (if server #2 > can't send the fax, it should really have a way to let server #1 know, > so all the errors can be logged in one place).. but that concern > aside, > is what I want to do possible, perhaps with some clever scripting? Has > anyone on the list ever done such a thing, or tried to? It's been done before. However, the better thing at the moment is to get your client to support muliple servers rather than trying to proxy-fy a HylaFAX server. > Basically I'm trying to recycle existing equipment (the old PC in the > corner) instead of having to buy a multi-port serial card with 6 or > 8 ports. The multiport is the way to go, though. ;-) > I've also thought of running a daemon on the second server that > listens > on a TCP port and acts as a TCP <=> serial port pass-through. On the > first server, I would have a client for this that listens on a FIFO, > and configure the FIFO as a `modem' for Hylafax to use. In this case, > there wouldn't need to be a Hylafax server running on the second box > at > all. Has anyone had any experience with a setup like this? (I realize > it's a dirty hack, but it should be at least possible, right?) This would be a very cool arrangement... if it worked. What package would do the TCP <=> serial port pass-through? Lee. ____________________ HylaFAX(tm) Users Mailing List _______________________ To subscribe/unsubscribe, click http://lists.hylafax.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi On UNIX: mail -s unsubscribe hylafax-users-request@hylafax.org < /dev/null *To learn about commercial HylaFAX(tm) support, mail sales@hylafax.org.*