I am wondering if this may be a use for Linux at work...

The scenario: Where I work, we receive a lot of faxes. Many times 
our customers receive busy signals when trying to send their fax to 
our fax machine. We are currently using a service from our local 
telephone provider which redirects a fax call to a receiving server 
somewhere, when our line is busy. It then waits until our line is not 
busy and calls our fax machine and sends the fax to us. The 
service works fine, and is very handy for our customers. The 
problem is that we are charged 25 cents per page. This adds up to 
quite a sum for us.

We want to retain a single number for our fax number. We have 
other lines available, and could put in a second telephone line 
which rolls over from one number to another when the first one is 
busy. However I haven't seen any two-line fax machines on the 
market, and we just don't want to have additional fax machines 
around that people have to check when expecting a fax coming in.

I do have extra computers around that I could make use of.

My question: Would it be a plausible idea to put Mandrake on a 
computer with two fax/modems in it, and have the computer receive 
faxes on both lines at the same time, then print them out on a 
printer? I am not concerned with sending faxes, only receiving 
them. I am interested in knowing if anyone else has accomplished 
this, how tough it would be to set up the software without having it 
fight between the modems, etc.

Any comments would be appreciated.

Bruce Endries
Systems Manager
The Daily Star, Oneonta, NY
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