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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
