RE: mgetty counting rings
Here in the US, the ringing signal (what the receiver hears) and the
ringback
signal (what the caller hears) are completely separate signals. The
signals
are put on the line by the local central office serving each phone. They
are
completely independent signals and not necessarily in sync. It's quite
common
for one more (or one fewer) rings to be heard by the receiver than the
caller.
I would suspect that this is what is going on in NZ too.
Tony Richardson
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Beattie [SMTP:mickyb@es.co.nz]
Sent: Friday, May 08, 1998 8:36 AM
To: David Wright
Cc: Debian User List
Subject: Re: mgetty counting rings
On Thu, 7 May 1998, David Wright wrote:
> On Thu, 7 May 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to have mgetty (or something else) counting the number
of
> > RING's it receives on the modem line? I want it to write the results
with
a
> > timestamp in a logfile, if possible.
>
> Every ring of my phone is timestamped in /var/log/mgetty/mg_ttyS1.log
thus:
>
> 05/07 09:17:38 yS1 waiting...
> 05/07 09:46:19 yS1 waiting for ``RING'' ** found **
> 05/07 09:46:19 yS1 waiting for ``RING'' ** found **
> 05/07 09:46:22 yS1 waiting for ``RING'' ** found **
> 05/07 09:46:25 yS1 waiting for ``RING'' ** found **
> 05/07 09:46:28 yS1 waiting for ``RING'' ** found **
> 05/07 09:46:31 yS1 waiting for ``RING'' ** found **
> 05/07 09:46:34 yS1 waiting for ``RING'' ** found **
> 05/07 09:46:37 yS1 waiting for ``RING'' ** found **
> 05/07 09:46:40 yS1 send: ATA[0d]
>
> Or is it the precise number of rings that's important to you?
> I'm not convinced that the number of rings I hear in the earpiece
> precisely matches what's being "heard" and logged at the other end.
In New Zealand, the system is thus:
One end : RING RING RING RING RING RING
Other end: RING RING RING RING RING RING
So that the same number of rings is not always heard at both ends. It is
never more than one either side though.
Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)
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