Re: [hylafax-users] Limiting concurrent calls via DID?

["Jonny Berthiaume" <jberthiaume@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

In this particular case, the best solution would be to implement this
behaviour in your phone system. I know you can program something like
this in a PBX (which might be very old by the way), so I guess you can
do it with the new stuff too.



2007/6/29, Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> newsgroup wrote:
>
> > I am wondering if it is possible to limit the number of concurrent
> > calls placed to a single DID?
> >
> > I have an Eicon PRI fax card, so I have 23 lines of fax available. If
> > I want to give a certian fax number two lines, and no more than two
> > lines, can I limit that someway with the DID ( DAD: ) information?
> >
> > Right now, we're doing an ugly method of setting individual TTYs to
> > listen to a specific number. That only works well if you have less
> > than 23 DIDs that you care about. Until recently, that was the case.
> > Now we have more than 23 DIDs, some of which only need 1 line
> > available, some need more than 1 (if it is available)... So, we're
> > trying to figure out a way to limit based on that info. I'm pretty
> > sure I could use some part of the dynamic config to do this, but I
> > didn't want to write a daemon or some other app to check for
> > concurrency if someone else had already done it, or if there is a
> > mechanism within Hylafax designed for this already.
>
>
> There is no mechanism in HylaFAX already for this kind of thing.  You
> easily could do it with DynamicConfig and HylaFAX+'s extended "faxstat"
> display capability.  (Just call faxstat from DynamicConfig, check to see
> how many DID:some_number lines you already have going, and use
> RejectCall accordingly.)
>
> > Also, I've looked through the handbook and searched the archives, but
> > I'm not finding alot of information about routing faxes based on the
> > DID (DAD) info either. Currently, with each TTY bound to a specific
> > number, it was easy to just set each faxgetty to a different
> > directory. How do I do this with the DID info?
>
>
> You route based on $CALLIDn (where "n" is a number based on the
> placement of the matching CallIDPattern found in your modem config file)
> instead of $DEVICE in your FaxDispatch file.  There is a small snippit
> of information on it here:
>
>  http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/howto/tweaking.php#ss6.10
>
> More here:
>
>  http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/man/faxrcvd.php
>
> Lee.
>
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