Re: [hylafax-users] Outgoing fax routing

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daryl Sayers wrote:

> I am interested in doing outgoing fax routing for my small faxing system. I
> have several hylafax servers set up in different states and one or 2 overseas.
> Each server may have 1 or 2 modems connected. My ideal setup would be an
> application would send a fax into the fax system and the 'system' will
> determine the correct fax server to send to. By interrogating the number and
> checking for national or international dial codes one could determine a valid
> destination to make the fax a local call. I am able to do most of this via a
> script. Now the tricky bit: I would also like an automated fallback system so
> if a fax server has more than, say 50 faxes then it will divert to a fallback
> or alternate host. The fallback would also be initiated if the site is down or
> modems offline etc. I believe hylafax does not (and probably should not ?) do
> any of this so has anyone put together a wrapper on top of hylafax that could
> do some/all of what I want.

You are correct.  HylaFAX server involves handling jobs assigned to the 
configured modems on that specific system.  There is no elegant way on 
the server-side of the equation to handle least-cost-routing (or 
whatever) across multiple servers.

What you're describing to me is an "intelligent" client behavior.  
Assuming the client can communicate to all of the servers, it is 
technically capable of finding out the queue size and handling whatever 
intelligence that you can give it for your routing methods... and then 
make appropriate decsions.

Thanks,

Lee.

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