From: Lotas T Smartman (webmaster at domain lotas-smartman.net)
Date: Wed 29 Aug 2001 - 00:30:56 IST
emmm. would this be the right time to say i have a caller id thing connected
between my phone and PSTN line. Its now working with NTL, but did work with
eircom for about 3 months before we switched. Anyway, if im wrong, sorry. I
know there is an app for windows to do it. never tried it. Dont know about
linux.
Lotas T Smartman
www.lotas-smartman.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Niall O Broin" <niall at domain linux.ie>
To: "irish linux users group" <ilug at domain linux.ie>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 11:55 PM
Subject: Re: [ILUG] caller ID in Ireland
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:52:11AM +0000, Vincent Cunniffe wrote:
> > Ronan Waide wrote:
> >
> > > some time back when I was busy trying not to delete the Tech TV
> > > website, I asked on its bulletin board if anyone had the specifics of
> > > eircom's caller ID implementation. The approximate answer I got
> > > revealed that that wasn't really the question I wanted to ask; what I
> > > meant to ask was, is there a modem available that understands
> > > eircom's CID implementation? It seems to defeat pretty much anything I
> > > have available to me, presumably due to it not being adherent to
> > > standard XYZ. Pointers appreciated, thanks.
> >
> > Dunno about 56k, but standard ISDN cards seem to pick up Eircom's CID
> > scheme easily enough, and report incoming calls correctly in the logs.
>
> This is not strictly correct. Yes, ISDN cards see the incoming number but
> this is because ISDN is a digital protocol and there's no ringing tone -
> instead, there's an incoming call packet, part of whose contents is the
> calling subscriber's number - this is extracted from the packet by I4L and
> put in the logs.
>
> Caller ID as commonly referred to is an add-on to a POTS (analog) line
which
> allows for the sending of the calling subscriber's number alongside the
> ringing tone - I don't know how, but I'd guess DTMF as there's so much
telco
> kit which can handle DTMF. However, how is not germane here. I'd imagine
> that Eircom has used the same kind of Caller ID kit as is used in the U.S.
> for the simple reason that you can buy so much Far East produced Caller ID
> kit in Ireland. I'm presuming this stuff works, else the shops would soon
> stop selling it, as they're not in business to accept returns. And you may
> be sure that this kit is not made in a special version for the Irish
market.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Niall
>
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