[Gllug] Server setup

[Jack Bertram]

* Martin A. Brooks <martin at hinterlands.org> [041213 08:15]:
> George Wright wrote:
> 
> >What would be the best way to set this up? Will it render the phone line 
> >useless for incoming voice calls or faxes?
> > 
> >
> 
> pppd will give you a dial-in server. All voice calls will be picked up 
> by the modem.  I seem to recall that there's some magic way of 
> distinguishing an incoming fax call.

You probably want to check out mgetty + vgetty.  I've used this successfully
for voicemail + fax.  I'm not sure you could pass voice calls through for
normal answering, but check the vgetty documentation

j

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