Gordon Henderson wrote: > iaxmodem is a softare modem. It's a program which takes an IAX channel > and gives you a serial-line like interface. You can send AT commands > to it and get/send digital data directly. This is what people connect > HylaFax to. HylaFax is a suit pf programs that have been about for > donkeys years - originally designed to talk to real modems (I used > hylafax with a USR modem many years ago and remember it being a PITA > to setup which is why I've never bothered to look at it - however that > might have changed recently...?) > > So if you have a lot of experience with HylaFax, then the suggestion > may be to get iaxmodem and carry on with HylaFax, else consider > rx_fax/tx_fax.
My personal experience - as part of a recent migration to Asterisk - Hylafax was very easily set up with a normal analog modem, which I opted for initially as I (somehow) got the impression that faxing wasn't all that straight forward with Asterisk/VoIP. Just today I've switched to using iaxmodem, which was equally easy. Anyone in the market for a plain 56K analog fax modem? > The downside of iaxmodem is that (to my knowledge) you can't easilly > implement an auto-answer/detect fax/voice/ auto attendant/voicemail > system. The channel must be dedicated to faxing, and that's that. This > may or may not be an issue for you though. In my case, we have a dedicated fax number. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- ENIDAN Technologies GmbH - managed email security. Starting at SFr1/month/user - http://www.spamchek.ch/ _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
