On Thu, 22 May 2008, Benny Amorsen wrote: > "Steve Totaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Then check out Hylafax and IAXmodem. Hylafax has alot of client apps >> too. As I said before, it is CPU intensive, so you may need separate >> machines to handle fax. A direct crossover cable for network is the >> best to eliminate any latency. > > If you run iaxmodem on the Asterisk server, you can use something like > termnetd to provide a virtual serial port to Hylafax over the network. > Then latency, jitter, and packet loss becomes much less of a problem.
Something that's always confused me - IAXmodem is built on spandsp. RxFAX is also built on spandsp. RxFAX gets one step closer to the data stream (no copper/IP in the way), so why are people using (& suggesting) Hylafax over RxFAX? (and I'm just talking about receiving faxes here - Can see where there's a case for using something clever to send faxes, but I've yet to have any clients who don't have a traditional FAX machine - the paper-less office is still 20 years away ;-) Now it may be that the post fax reception processing is cpu intensive (converting it to a TIFF/PDF, storing it, emailling it, etc.), but I've not actually had any issues with this - although admittedly, I'm only dealing with 1 or 2 fax receptors per site. Just thinking out loud really... Gordon _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
