Caller ID (was telephony)

[Logan Kennelly]

On Monday 10 June 2002 12:57 pm, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:42:59PM -0700, Bryce C. wrote:
> > I don't think that it's slow.  I heard somewhere the the Telco sends
> > the info after the second ring.
>
> No it's after the first ring.  My standalone caller ID box and the
> Audreys both receive it much sooner than the mgetty mod.  It's just
> that mgetty wasn't designed for that; so far it uses caller ID to
> decide whether to answer the phone or not, and speed isn't very
> important for that purpose.

The caller ID information wait times out after the second ring.  Perhaps the 
information is being sent on the timeout rather than when the checksum byte 
is received?

Something to look at.

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						Logan Kennelly
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