Re: [hylafax-users] Fax routing

[Matthew Sorah <matthews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That sounds pretty cool, but does such
a thing exist right now?

           
               Matt Sorah
                    
           MIS
                   Eagle Equipment
Corp. 



hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/09/2004
03:02:07 PM:

> 
> I think the proper way to do this is to put a "hylafax"
proxy infront of
> multiple fax servers.
> 
> Clients use only a single FAXSERVER.  It's simply a "fixed"
hfaxd that
> accepts the jobs, and instead of submitting it to a local faxq fifo,
> re-submits it to a another hfaxd, based on some sort of least-cost
> routing engine.
> 
> If the proxy is intellegent, and uses triggers, it could always present
> a  unified view of the multipe servers without having to continuously
> poll them all.
> 
> a.
> 
> * Matthew Sorah <matthews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [040309 14:56]:
> > Much appreciated, don't exactly have time to do it now but will
put 
> > research to do list.
> > 
> >                  
         Matt Sorah
> >                  
              MIS
> >                  
 Eagle Equipment Corp. 
> >  
> > 
> > 
> > hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/09/2004 02:29:48
PM:
> > 
> > > On 2004.03.09 10:50 Matthew Sorah wrote:
> > > > >From looking at the archives. I know that Hylafax
can not route
> > > > outbound
> > > > faxes to a server is local to the phone number needed
to be dialed.
> > > > (ie a
> > > > fax queued to a Hylafax server can be routed to another
Hylafax server
> > > > 
> > > > based on area code, load on server or whatever.) Is
this a planned
> > > > feature
> > > > for the next major release?  Just thought I ask.
> > > 
> > > It's on the wish-list.  But I don't think that anyone
is seriously 
> > > undertaking it yet.
> > > 
> > > You can get similar results now, though, by creating a "faxsend
> > > wrapper" (search the archives for it).  It doesn't
offset the faxq 
> > > load, but it would offset modem load or facilitate least-cost-routing,
> > > etc.  So basically to offset faxq load it would require
a faxq rewrite.
> > > 
> > > Lee.
> > > 
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