Or I could just have everyone manually disconnect the modem socket when going to use the phone, which is often what people do anyway (bastards :) - unfortunately however, this does not change the behaviour of IPCOP.
On Monday 08 September 2003 17:07, Col wrote: > >However - if someone picks up the phone, and the modem gets disconnected, > > it goes into "modem idle" mode. doh! It seems to think that the RED > > interface is still active (when it's damn well been disconnected), and > > won't go back to the "waiting for dial on demand" state until you first > > issue a 'disconnect' (so it thinks the RED interface is down) and then > > 'connect' from the web interface. This is most annoying, as it means > > every time we go to use it someone needs to manually put it into "waiting > > for dial on demand" mode before it can be used as "dial on demand" again > > - kinda defeats the purose, no? > > I recommend a telephone privacy adaptor. Basically it's a special > telephone double > adaptor that cuts off one socket when the other is in use. If you want > to see what one > looks like go to www.dse.co.nz and do a search on part F9772. > > > Col.
