Re: flexfax: Hylafax Installation -- A Plea for Help

[Darren Nickerson <darren@hylafax.org>]

>>>>> On 29 May 2000, "Dmitry" == Dmitry Bely wrote:

  Dmitry> Darren Nickerson <darren@hylafax.org> writes:

  +> USRs are OK in Class1. Sometimes.

  Dmitry> ... because of Class1 bugs in Hylafax (seems to be fixed). I don't
  Dmitry> know any firmware related problem for USR Class1 implementation.


You keep talking about these Class1 bugs you have fixed, but the -devel list 
has yet to see the patches! ;-)

  +> IIRC most of the personal (Windoze) fax apps drive modems in Class1, the
  +> simplest and most reliable way to operate in a low-latency, high resource
  +> setup such as a single workstation.

  Dmitry> Class 1 is also the reliable way for heavy loaded server. Have you
  Dmitry> read Class 2/2.0 vs Class 1 discussion in hylafax-devel?

Of course I have. It was hardly a conclusive discussion though. Harald felt 
that timing issues in Class 1 were not so important, because the tolerances 
were on the order of seconds. I've had a server go busy up for a few seconds . 
. . have you? ;-)


  Dmitry> Actually *not* *needed* (all this Class2* stuff and useless modem
  Dmitry> init string in existing configs ...) Almost all modems will work fine
  Dmitry> with the default settings (as soon as my changes is applied). You'll
  Dmitry> see ... :-)


Promises, promises ;-)


  +> and we'd be driving them in Class 2 as well!

  Dmitry> Not neccessary. I'm quite happy with Class 1 now (and need not to
  Dmitry> thing about Class2 firmware specifics, i.e. bugs). Now it's time to
  Dmitry> implement ECM :-))) (impossible for Class 2/2.0)

Have fun!

-Darren