Re: [hylafax-users] Can hylafax `proxy' to another hylafax server?

["Eric Wood" <eric@interplas.com>]

The Digi PortServer II can split its serial ports up to multiple servers
using its "realport" driver.  It's kind of like doing a VLAN but for serial.

For example, let's say you have a 16 port unit.  Port 1-4 could be dedicated
to an NT box. Port 5-12 could be for a linux/hylafax box.  Port 13-16 could
be for a novell.

So you can have two linux boxes "mount" their own set of "/dev/ttyPSxx"
serial ports.   This consolidates phone lines to one area. Thanks to the
"realport" driver.

This is how I got around the limitation of faxq not being able to hand a job
off to another hfaxd process and keep up with status.
-eric wood



----- Original Message -----
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:43:59AM -0700, Lee Howard wrote:
> > > 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?
>
> umodem.  It makes a program that *wants* a serial port talk through a
> telnet connection instead, eg:
>
> ATDT"remote.example.com:236
>
> You have to run the program as a child of umodem, though, so I don't
> know how easy it would be to make faxgetty use it.


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