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I'm having a problem getting incoming fax and outgoing PPP connections
on the same modem.  I can get mgetty to answer the fax, and I can get
outgoing PPP, but not both at the same time.  It seems that when
mgetty is watching the line, chat isn't able to dial out.  Seyon
can dial out while mgetty is running however.

If you have a clue, please send it my way.  I'm stumped as to what to
try.

Thanks,
Dave
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See the examples in ppp-2.2.0f.tar.gz.

The problem is that if you attempt to run chat first and then run pppd,
the lock will be incorrect. This will cause mgetty to think that the
lock owner has died and take over the serial port.

For what it is worth, we run mgetty and pppd for both dial-in and dial-out
modes. I don't have a need to receive faxes, but I trust that mgetty would
work with fax input.

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: >I'm having a problem getting incoming fax and outgoing PPP connections
: >on the same modem.  I can get mgetty to answer the fax, and I can get
: >outgoing PPP, but not both at the same time.  It seems that when
: >mgetty is watching the line, chat isn't able to dial out.  Seyon
: >can dial out while mgetty is running however.
:
: >If you have a clue, please send it my way.  I'm stumped as to what to
: >try.
:
: Run chat only from within the pppd process as a option to 'connect'.
: Then use the 'lock' option.
:
: See the examples in ppp-2.2.0f.tar.gz.
:
: The problem is that if you attempt to run chat first and then run pppd,
: the lock will be incorrect. This will cause mgetty to think that the
: lock owner has died and take over the serial port.
:
: For what it is worth, we run mgetty and pppd for both dial-in and dial-out
: modes. I don't have a need to receive faxes, but I trust that mgetty would
: work with fax input.

I run pppd with diald and uucp.  I can dial out and establish the ppp
connection to my ISP, I can dial out and esatblish a UUCP connection, and I
can also receive FAX transmissions via mgetty!  It's a matter to choosing
the correct device (ttyS1 in my case, the cua* devices are not even present
on my system!) and making sure that every process uses the same lock file!

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