Blocked by concurrent calls

[Tim Boyer]

I've got three modems, all of which are available for calling out. To make
sure everything was working, I sent three separate faxes to an outside fax
machine, like so:

sendfax -d330675xxxx filename

As the first one started out, I sent the second one; as it started, I sent
the third one.

The first fax went out just fine. The next two just sat in the queue with a
message 'Blocked by concurrent call'.

I _thought_ that HylaFAX would modems added by faxaddmodem, and use them as
necessary. Apparently, I'm wrong. What do I need to do to use more than
one fax?

Thanks,

[Lukas Gradl]

Check MaxConcurrentCalls in your etc/config.

regards
Lukas

Post by Tim Boyer
I've got three modems, all of which are available for calling out. To make
sure everything was working, I sent three separate faxes to an outside fax
sendfax -d330675xxxx filename
As the first one started out, I sent the second one; as it started, I sent
the third one.
The first fax went out just fine. The next two just sat in the queue with a
message 'Blocked by concurrent call'.
I _thought_ that HylaFAX would modems added by faxaddmodem, and use them as
necessary. Apparently, I'm wrong. What do I need to do to use more than
one fax?
Thanks,

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[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Tim Boyer typed (on Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 04:15:36PM -0400):
| I've got three modems, all of which are available for calling out. To make
| sure everything was working, I sent three separate faxes to an outside fax
| machine, like so:
|
| sendfax -d330675xxxx filename
|
| As the first one started out, I sent the second one; as it started, I sent
| the third one.
|
| The first fax went out just fine. The next two just sat in the queue with a
| message 'Blocked by concurrent call'.
|
| I _thought_ that HylaFAX would modems added by faxaddmodem, and use them as
| necessary. Apparently, I'm wrong. What do I need to do to use more than
| one fax?

If you send N faxes to the same destination, Hylafax will send
sequentially, no matter how many modems you have.

Another call to the same number is "Blocked by concurrent call" because
Hylafax knows what it is doing; specifically it's calling that number
right now, so how could the remote machine answer another call?

Modems 2 and 3 are quite free to call any number except the one being
dialed by modem 1.

[Tim Boyer]

Post by Jean-Pierre Radley
| I've got three modems, all of which are available for calling out. To make
| sure everything was working, I sent three separate faxes to an outside fax
|
| sendfax -d330675xxxx filename
|
| As the first one started out, I sent the second one; as it started, I sent
| the third one.
|
| The first fax went out just fine. The next two just sat in the queue with a
| message 'Blocked by concurrent call'.
|
| I _thought_ that HylaFAX would modems added by faxaddmodem, and use them as
| necessary. Apparently, I'm wrong. What do I need to do to use more than
| one fax?
If you send N faxes to the same destination, Hylafax will send
sequentially, no matter how many modems you have.
Another call to the same number is "Blocked by concurrent call" because
Hylafax knows what it is doing; specifically it's calling that number
right now, so how could the remote machine answer another call?
Modems 2 and 3 are quite free to call any number except the one being
dialed by modem 1.

Hah! So you're saying HylaFAX is smarter than I am, then. :)

Makes sense - I'll try sending on different phone numbers.

(Jean-Pierre Radley? I assume this is the CompuServe JPR? 20 years later, and
I'm _still_ asking you for help?)

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Tim Boyer typed (on Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 06:00:52PM -0400):
| On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:42:47 -0400, Jean-Pierre Radley <***@jpr.com> wrote:
| >Tim Boyer typed (on Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 04:15:36PM -0400):
| >
| >| I've got three modems, all of which are available for calling out.
| >| To make sure everything was working, I sent three separate faxes to
| >| an outside fax machine, like so:
| >|
| >| sendfax -d330675xxxx filename
| >|
| >| As the first one started out, I sent the second one; as it started,
| >| I sent the third one.
| >|
| >| The first fax went out just fine. The next two just sat in the
| >| queue with a message 'Blocked by concurrent call'.
| >|
| >| I _thought_ that HylaFAX would modems added by faxaddmodem, and use
| >| them as necessary. Apparently, I'm wrong. What do I need to do to
| >| use more than one fax?
| >
| >If you send N faxes to the same destination, Hylafax will send
| >sequentially, no matter how many modems you have.
| >
| >Another call to the same number is "Blocked by concurrent call"
| >because Hylafax knows what it is doing; specifically it's calling
| >that number right now, so how could the remote machine answer another
| >call?
| >
| >Modems 2 and 3 are quite free to call any number except the one being
| >dialed by modem 1.
|
| Hah! So you're saying HylaFAX is smarter than I am, then. :)
|
| Makes sense - I'll try sending on different phone numbers.

OTOH, some other folks pointed to you to MaxConcurrentJobs. It is useful
to set this to a number higher than 1 only if your destination has a
pool of modems which will answer the same telephone number.

It isn't globally useful, since 97.42% of the fax numbers in the world
surely do NOT stand for a pool of modems. -:) But if you know one of
your destinations is such a pool, than read the man page for destctrls.

| (Jean-Pierre Radley? I assume this is the CompuServe JPR? 20 years
| later, and I'm _still_ asking you for help?)

...your humble servant. :-)

N.B. I've been hanging out in this newsgroup since before I ever dialed
up CompuServe.

[Lukas Gradl]

Check MaxConcurrentCalls in your etc/config.

regards
Lukas

Post by Tim Boyer
I've got three modems, all of which are available for calling out. To make
sure everything was working, I sent three separate faxes to an outside fax
sendfax -d330675xxxx filename
As the first one started out, I sent the second one; as it started, I sent
the third one.
The first fax went out just fine. The next two just sat in the queue with a
message 'Blocked by concurrent call'.
I _thought_ that HylaFAX would modems added by faxaddmodem, and use them as
necessary. Apparently, I'm wrong. What do I need to do to use more than
one fax?
Thanks,

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