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Date:      Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:29:04 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Mills <jmmills@telocity.com>
To:        Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: testing modem
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0206171525100.12142-100000@otter.mills-atl.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20020617120919.0095b400@pop.netzero.net>

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Yer Lardship, Sare -

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Lord Raiden wrote:

> 	What I want to do is to have the modem on the computer to be tested hook 
> directly into the testing computer.  Then when I activate the modem to be 
> tested I want the testing computer to fake dialtone and then take over and 
> pretend that it's the actual modem being dialed into.  Then I want it to 
> collect info and pretend to be connected for a bit then hang up.

Your objective makes sense, but are there any commands by which a
'vanilla' modem can generate a dialtone, a ring, detect 'off-hook', etc? I
would suppose that a consumer modem would depend on the telephone system
to perform these functions.

DISCLAIMER - That's just a wild-a** guess.

 - John Mills


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