2009/2/10 David Backeberg <[email protected]>

> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Olivier <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to improve my understanding of T.38.
>
> I recommend you try out Asterisk 1.6 if you want to play with T.38.
> I DID get asterisk-1.4 working with fax, but I was having a lot of
> issues with faxes dropping in weird ways. All of those issues went
> away when I upgraded to 1.6. Don't waste your time like I did.


I can testify I observed strange things with 1.4 and T.38 and I couldn't
decide if it came from my settings or else.
Before getting deeper into this, I thought I needed an improved
understanding (hence this thread).

Have you tried to directly connect two T.38 enabled gateways without
involving Asterisk at all (like this) ?
<ISDN> --- Gateway --- <SIP/T.38> --- ATA --- <FXO/FXS> --- fax machine


>
> app_fax in asterisk-1.6 is very, very nice and worked great for me. It
> works with traditional analog fax as well as T.38. I have to say I'm
> impressed and grateful for all who contributed to this.
> asterisk-1.6 also has a better SIP stack and other improvements.
>
> Rather than trying to get 1.4 working with this, I strongly recommend
> reading the directions at:
> http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20T.38
> to build asterisk-1.6 with app_fax 
> support<http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users>
>
_______________________________________________
-- 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

Reply via email to