From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 31 10:34:24 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA23525 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 31 Jan 1995 10:34:24 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA23517 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 1995 10:34:22 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA27632; Tue, 31 Jan 95 11:27:50 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9501311827.AA27632@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Call-back software for FreeBSD To: marques@vax.ox.ac.uk (Jose Marques) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 95 11:27:50 MST Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: from "Jose Marques" at Jan 30, 95 01:13:45 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Does anybody know of, or can recommend, any software to do callback. I > have two modems with which I would like to use this facility. > This is a hairy problem. Security is related to the current state of SIO signal processing, which is not ideal for this, or for bidirection line use via mgetty, or, more ideally, a working package that does what mgetty is supposed to do but is designed correctly to also allow callback. This is one of the things I planned on working on eventually. If you plan on hacking it, there has been significant discussion on the topic on the lists, so check the archives. Or I have copious notes, but you'd have to wait for me to transcribe about 1/3 of them. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.