Re: Linux support for voice modems?

From: Joe Beanfish (joebeanfish_at_nospam.duh)
Date: 05/03/05 

Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 13:33:17 -0400

On Tue, 03 May 2005 16:07:00 GMT, Haines Brown <brownh@teufel.hartford-hwp.com> wrote:
> I've had some difficulties stringing together various kinds of
> hardware on my phone line, and so wondered about the following:
>
> At present I have:
>
> outsidePhoneLine->FilterForDSL->DSLadapter->hdwrFirewall->computer
> ->phone
>
> Would a mgetty-sendfax solution find its way through this chain? Would
> incoming faxes be routed by the DSL filter to the computer without
> ringing the phone?
>

Not entirely clear about diagram but I would say doubtful. The faxmodem
should be connected directly to the outside phone line, possibly through
a dsl filter.