Re: [asterisk-users] [hylafax-users] asterisk, iaxmodem, hylafax quality problem
Lee Howard wrote: Artifex Maximus wrote: zttest is often on 99.975586% with final result: --- Results after 67 passes --- Best: 99.987793 -- Worst: 99.951172 -- Average: 99.973764 This is unacceptable for faxing, and it is evidence of the underlying problem also causing your faxes to come through with poor quality. Sadly both my production machine and a test machine I have here (both with TDM-400P's in them) have results that match this. (Shame really, I'd like to replace the real modem on a line on the production server with an IAXmodem process). 0: 2087872259IO-APIC-edge timer 7: 0IO-APIC-edge parport0 8: 1IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 1 IO-APIC-level acpi 14: 18440124IO-APIC-edge ide0 15:4456445IO-APIC-edge libata 169:4878102 IO-APIC-level eth0 177: 2086847525 IO-APIC-level wctdm24xxp 185: 2086810653 IO-APIC-level wct4xxp Notice the priorities here... and that your Zaptel cards come *last*, after eth0, after IDE. Each of those Zap cards are going to generate an interrupt once every millisecond when in use. You can hopefully imagine how IDE or eth0 activity would interfere, since they have a higher priority than the Zap cards. The weird thing is, looking at the motherboard manual for my test machine, The lower the Interrupt does not neccesarily mean the higher the priority. Eg. 8 to 15 have a higher priority than 3 to 7. On the bright side on that machine there is an IRQ - slot allocation system in the BIOS. On the down side, it appears to do bugger all. (as below) 0: 63 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 2 IO-APIC-edge i8042 6: 5 IO-APIC-edge floppy 7: 0 IO-APIC-edge parport0 8: 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 12: 3 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 4744 IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 11412 IO-APIC-edge ide1 17:428 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth0 19: 40266 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb3, uhci_hcd:usb4, uhci_hcd:usb5 20: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi VIA8237 21:1284151 IO-APIC-fasteoi wctdm I've also noticed that on the production server, the card not only has the lowest priority but is now sharing an IRQ (probably happened last time I saw fit to shut the machine down). 0: 2931864860 XT-PIC timer 1: 1659 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3:270 XT-PIC uhci_hcd:usb3 4:3231957 XT-PIC serial 5: 0 XT-PIC uhci_hcd:usb4 6: 13146224 XT-PIC dpti0 7: 475736174 XT-PIC eth0, eth1 8: 4 XT-PIC rtc 10: 0 XT-PIC uhci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb5 11: 2931432215 XT-PIC ehci_hcd:usb1, wctdm 14:759 XT-PIC ide0 Guess I'll try disabling the USB controllers and moving cards round again. ___ --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
Re: [asterisk-users] [hylafax-users] asterisk, iaxmodem, hylafax quality problem
Thomas Kenyon wrote: The weird thing is, looking at the motherboard manual for my test machine, The lower the Interrupt does not neccesarily mean the higher the priority. Eg. 8 to 15 have a higher priority than 3 to 7. Correct. IRQ 2 bridges to IRQ 8. Thus the priority order is: 0, 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 This is one reason why on modern Linux kernels where the ATA (IDE hard drive) driver is permitted to be very resource-greedy the serial ports on IRQs 3 and 4 can lose requisite attention for high-throughput serial devices (like Class 2.1 fax modems). And just think of those poor, poor printers on the LPT port, IRQ 7... The end-result is that the already slim pickings on IRQs gets reduced even further to a very narrow band for add-on PCI devices, usually just 9, 10, and 11 on many systems. This is one reason for APIC, although it's quite buggy in many kernels and motherboard BIOSes. Lee. ___ --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
Re: [asterisk-users] [hylafax-users] asterisk, iaxmodem, hylafax quality problem
Lee Howard wrote: Correct. IRQ 2 bridges to IRQ 8. Thus the priority order is: 0, 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 My zttest results weren't quite as bad as the previous poster. Home Machine. --- Results after 113 passes --- Best: 100.00 -- Worst: 99.987793 -- Average: 99.994452 Work Machine. --- Results after 115 passes --- Best: 100.00 -- Worst: 99.987793 -- Average: 99.993920 Presumably the work machine will marginally improve once the card has it's IRQ to itself again. Are these results good enough to be able to use TxFax/RxFax/iaxmodem? ___ --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
Re: [asterisk-users] [hylafax-users] asterisk, iaxmodem, hylafax quality problem
Thomas Kenyon wrote: My zttest results weren't quite as bad as the previous poster. Home Machine. --- Results after 113 passes --- Best: 100.00 -- Worst: 99.987793 -- Average: 99.994452 This should be perfectly fine. Work Machine. --- Results after 115 passes --- Best: 100.00 -- Worst: 99.987793 -- Average: 99.993920 This should work fine as well. Are these results good enough to be able to use TxFax/RxFax/iaxmodem? I can't really speak for TxFax/RxFax, but they should be fine for iaxmodem. Lee. ___ --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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hylafax and Asterisk
On 08:57, Fri 15 Apr 05, Andrew Yager wrote: Another option (which I think is just as good) is to use the patches available for chan_capi and set it up to receive faxes. Just search the list for chan_capi and fax. Hi, I stumped upon this couple of hours after my post. We have the capiAnswerFax now as replacement for Hylafax. Too bad it doesn't support sending faxes :( -- Michiel van Baak http://lunteren.vanbaak.info [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x7E0B9A2D Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and BSD. I don't think that this is a coincidence. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[Asterisk-Users] Hylafax and Asterisk
Hi, I found the following from the wiki: ** HylaFax and Asterisk Another solution is the Hylafax software. capi4hylafax and chan_capi will gladly coexist. You just tell asterisk to ignore the DIDs that are used for fax. My question: How can I tell * to ignore special DIDs and let them through to Hylafax? Kib ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hylafax and Asterisk
My question: How can I tell * to ignore special DIDs and let them through to Hylafax? Take a look at capi.conf. There is a entry like incomingmsn. Modify it like incomingmsn=12345,23456,34567 So you can define which msn are for asterisk and which msn is used for other purposes. HTH Frank ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hylafax and Asterisk
Kib Eki wrote: My question: How can I tell * to ignore special DIDs and let them through to Hylafax? Don't put them in /etc/asterisk/capi.conf as incomingmsn. You can still use them for outgoing if you want to though. -- Best regards Peer Oliver Schmidt PGP Key ID: 0x83E1C2EA ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hylafax and Asterisk
Don't put them in /etc/asterisk/capi.conf as incomingmsn. You can still use them for outgoing if you want to though. Where to put it instead? I'm running * with Capisuite as faxengine and I defined my msn handled by * in capi.conf.. Do you have a better place for it? Regards Frank Becker ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hylafax and Asterisk
On 10:39, Thu 14 Apr 05, Kib Eki wrote: Hi, I found the following from the wiki: ** HylaFax and Asterisk Another solution is the [1]Hylafax software. capi4hylafax and chan_capi will gladly coexist. You just tell asterisk to ignore the DIDs that are used for fax. My question: How can I tell * to ignore special DIDs and let them through to Hylafax? Kib Hi, The way I fixed it is maybe not that elegant but works. My capi.conf has incomingmsn=* In my extensions.conf I did: [from-isdn] 31342423XXX,1,Wait(30) ;ignore fax number for 30 seconds. Hylafax should have answered by then -- Michiel van Baak http://lunteren.vanbaak.info [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x7E0B9A2D Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and BSD. I don't think that this is a coincidence. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hylafax and Asterisk
Another option (which I think is just as good) is to use the patches available for chan_capi and set it up to receive faxes. Just search the list for chan_capi and fax. Yours, Andrew On 15/04/2005, at 5:11 AM, Michiel van Baak wrote: On 10:39, Thu 14 Apr 05, Kib Eki wrote: Hi, I found the following from the wiki: ** HylaFax and Asterisk Another solution is the [1]Hylafax software. capi4hylafax and chan_capi will gladly coexist. You just tell asterisk to ignore the DIDs that are used for fax. My question: How can I tell * to ignore special DIDs and let them through to Hylafax? Kib Hi, The way I fixed it is maybe not that elegant but works. My capi.conf has incomingmsn=* In my extensions.conf I did: [from-isdn] 31342423XXX,1,Wait(30) ;ignore fax number for 30 seconds. Hylafax should have answered by then -- Michiel van Baak http://lunteren.vanbaak.info [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x7E0B9A2D Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and BSD. I don't think that this is a coincidence. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
