Re: [asterisk-users] Configuring Faxs any help :)

2007-03-20 Thread Lee Howard
dima wrote: I get Best: 99.975586 -- Worst: 99.975586 -- Average: 99.975586 with zttest Where do I have to start looking for hardware errors? I would start with IRQ sharing. Make sure that your Zap hardware isn't sharing an IRQ. Secondly, you want to have it with a fairly high priority,

Re: [asterisk-users] Configuring Faxs any help :)

2007-03-20 Thread Lee Howard
younss azzayani wrote: zfter running zttool i got: --- Results after 303 passes --- Best: 100.00 -- Worst: 99.987793 -- Average: 99.994914 Okay. Then at this point you need to put record in your iaxmodem config file, restart iaxmodem, attempt the call again, and afterwards send me

Re: [asterisk-users] Configuring Faxs any help :)

2007-03-20 Thread Lee Howard
That is going to depend upon your motherboard hardware, most likely. Understand that in most cases the NIC and hard drives are usually going to be the most demanding interrupt resource competitors to the Zap hardware, and that the Zap hardware cannot often operate properly (i.e. for fax)

Re: [asterisk-users] IAX2 and Faxing

2007-03-14 Thread Lee Howard
Davis Sylvester III wrote: Can someone tell me how to get faxing to work with an IAX2 remote client? Wish upon a falling star, throw a penny into a fountain, find a four-leaf clover, and pat your head and rub your stomach all at the same time. :-)

Re: [asterisk-users] IAX2 and Faxing

2007-03-14 Thread Lee Howard
Davis Sylvester III wrote: Thanks for the quick response. But how do other VoIP Service Providers like vonage provide fax capabilities? Inevitably what I say here is going to be countered from some Vonage customer saying, You're wrong! It always has worked for me. Vonage even advertises

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Faxing Support

2007-02-28 Thread Lee Howard
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Andrew Joakimsen wrote: Steve Underwood and the other fine persons that have helped to develop the software DSPs and other stuff required for FoIP support also have no interest in writing any further faxing support for Asterisk (RxFax, TxFax + the newest span_dsp

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Faxing Support

2007-02-28 Thread Lee Howard
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: On Wednesday 28 February 2007 7:53 pm, Lee Howard wrote: The problem, however, as we all know, is that the Asterisk maintainer, Digium, requires undue retribution in the form of disclaimers before it will accept any contribution into the code repository

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX using T38

2007-02-28 Thread Lee Howard
Matt Riddell [NZ] wrote: Does OpenPBX do a T.38 gateway then? Yes, it does. Lee. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:

Re: [asterisk-users] b410p + fax (echo cancellation)

2007-02-23 Thread Lee Howard
Zoilo Gomez wrote: I really don't get it From several emails in this list archive, I had clearly understood that it is important to switch Echo Cancellation off for fax-channels, or faxing would not work properly. However, faxing (B410P ISDN bridged to TE410P PSTN) seems to work fine

Re: [asterisk-users] Re: Asterisk Faxing Support

2007-02-08 Thread Lee Howard
Craig Guy wrote: it wouldn't make business sense for Digium to have code in the free distribution that can't be in their commercial distribution. Yes, I do suspect that Digium sees things this way. Maybe I'm too much of a free-thinker - too believing in the open-source philosophy, but I

Re: [asterisk-users] Rxfax and Txfax on Asterisk 1.4

2007-02-08 Thread Lee Howard
Ardjan Zwartjes wrote: One thing that's important to mention here: We get unpredictable results if the fax is transmitted entirely over VOIP, if the fax passes a regular telephony channel once it works fine but if it's purely VOIP, transmission errors occur. This is probably a timing problem,

[asterisk-users] Re: [iaxmodem-users] OT: Asterisk 1.2.X, IAXModem 0.2.0 + HylaFAX+ 5.0.3 interop probl em

2007-01-30 Thread Lee Howard
Colin Anderson wrote: When I have HylaFAX answer a call redirected to the fax extension in Asterisk when it detects CNG, Asterisk hangs up: Jan 30 14:32:59 VERBOSE[1098]: -- IAX2/ttyIAX0552/12 is ringing Jan 30 14:32:59 VERBOSE[1098]: -- IAX2/ttyIAX0552/12 answered Zap/23-1 Jan 30

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax through Sangoma A102

2007-01-09 Thread Lee Howard
jeremij jerome wrote: The problem is with the fax. We just want to send and receive faxes from/to our fax machine connected to the Siemens (without needing any interaction with our VoIP network, the faxes are sent to/received from PSTN). Unfortunately we are experiencing a lot of problems:

Re: [asterisk-users] fax transmission

2007-01-07 Thread Lee Howard
Thomas Kenyon wrote: Doug Lytle wrote: iaxmodem is the component that will allow you to use all of your 8 ports on the ISDN card as software modems. It works very well. It is worth noting that it works best if the asterisk server with the linecard is the same machine as the hylafax

Re: [asterisk-users] no unicall on 1.4

2007-01-05 Thread Lee Howard
Anton Krall wrote: after all, like you said, it is open source.. |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- |[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Moises Silva |At the end, is open source/freesoftware, if you dont like it, nobody |is stopping you from change it.

Re: [asterisk-users] no unicall on 1.4

2007-01-04 Thread Lee Howard
Barzilai Spinak wrote: 2) Why is it that Digium never gave a damn about E1/MFC/R2... My guess would be because they don't have any E1/MFC/R2 hardware products to market. Lee. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com --

Re: [asterisk-users] no unicall on 1.4

2007-01-04 Thread Lee Howard
Anton Krall wrote: This is exactly one of the things that Steve and I discussed a bit ago... when did asterisk turn from an open source project with very good developers into a business that only focuses in $$$? Well, I think that there can be no doubt that there still are some very good

Re: [asterisk-users] spandsp 0.0. 3 RxFax fax =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_reception c rashes bristuffed_asterisk_1=2E2=2E13_[?= Virusgeprüft]

2006-12-20 Thread Lee Howard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sure in an small office you can use iaxmodem/hylafax to receive faxes - we use it for sending faxes, but would you try to set up about 100 iaxmodems inside hylafax if you can handle it directly inside asterisk with rx_fax and a small script ? Yes, I would, actually

Re: [asterisk-users] spandsp 0.0. 3 RxFax fax =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_reception c rashes bristuffed_asterisk_1=2E2=2E13_[?= Virusgeprüft]

2006-12-20 Thread Lee Howard
Colin Anderson wrote: AFAIC, Hylafax + IAXmodem is the way to go for anything serious, unless we are talking about thousands of users and thousands of faxes per day. I don't even know what could be scaled to that scenario and not be unmanageable. For the thousands and thousands scenario you

Re: [asterisk-users] spandsp 0.0. 3 RxFax fax =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_reception c rashes bristuffed_asterisk_1=2E2=2E13_[?= Virusgeprüft]

2006-12-20 Thread Lee Howard
Jean-Yves Avenard wrote: I don't see why rxfax would be less reliable than iaxmodem/hylafax as it's using the same spandsp to receive fax. spandsp is a dsp library with lots of pieces to it. IAXmodem uses the T.31 portion (the Class 1 modem) which uses the actual DSP parts of V.21, V.29,

Re: [asterisk-users] spandsp 0.0. 3 RxFax fax =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_reception c rashes bristuffed_asterisk_1=2E2=2E13_[?= Virusgeprüft]

2006-12-20 Thread Lee Howard
Jean-Yves Avenard wrote: What are the advantages of T31 over T30 ? T.30 is the spec for fax protocol. T.31 is the spec for a Class 1 fax modem. So T.31 is a layer that allows something else to perform fax protocol (T.30) through it. There may be some intrinsic value to handling faxing

Re: [asterisk-users] spandsp 0.0.3 RxFax fax reception crashes bristuffed asterisk 1.2.13

2006-12-19 Thread Lee Howard
This thread seems like an awfully crazy amount of work to get fax working when using IAXmodem and HylaFAX would do it without the headache, most likely. Lee. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To

Re: [asterisk-users] spandsp 0.0.3 RxFax fax reception crashes bristuffed asterisk 1.2.13

2006-12-19 Thread Lee Howard
Jean-Yves Avenard wrote: Hi On 12/20/06, Lee Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread seems like an awfully crazy amount of work to get fax working when using IAXmodem and HylaFAX would do it without the headache, most likely. Does IAXmodem allows you to receive faxes with any

Re: [asterisk-users] send fax by Iaxmodem ?

2006-12-13 Thread Lee Howard
Noc Phibee wrote: déc 13 13:47:21.12: [13725]: -- [15:ATDT0426690268\r] déc 13 13:47:21.12: [13725]: -- [11:NO DIALTONE] Getting NO DIALTONE from iaxmodem means that the call was rejected. Double-check your setup. Make sure that iaxmodem can register. Then make sure that the context

Re: [asterisk-users] send fax by Iaxmodem ?

2006-12-13 Thread Lee Howard
Marco Mouta wrote: Dec 13 11:28:07.51: [ 9242]: DIAL 2079^M Dec 13 11:28:07.51: [ 9242]: -- [9:ATDT2079\r] Dec 13 11:28:16.70: [ 9242]: -- [4:BUSY] Dec 13 11:28:46.70: [ 9242]: MODEM TIMEOUT: reading line from modem Dec 13 11:28:46.71: [ 9242]: MODEM Timeout Dec 13 11:28:46.71: [ 9242]: SEND

Re: [asterisk-users] Cisco IAXmodem HylaFAX

2006-12-01 Thread Lee Howard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my company a have a 100% IP Telephony implemented (Cisco Phones, Routers, Switches, etc). We are connected to our operator by two E1 lines. The PBX is on operator side (a H.323 Gateway is configured on call manager). I study the possibility to implement a Hylafax

Re: [asterisk-users] Re: fax eater

2006-11-03 Thread Lee Howard
James Harper wrote: I always wished that a fax machine could detect someone yelling F**K OFF down the phone line, and register that it probably isn't a fax machine at the other end :) They can. For example a fax modem report of no carrier detected means, if you trust the modem, exactly

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Is fax bridging with TDM2400 working (or about to work) ?

2006-11-03 Thread Lee Howard
Olivier wrote: ... or shall I use Sangoma boards for that ? Works with Sangoma. Lee. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk and ISDN and Hylafax

2006-10-26 Thread Lee Howard
Thomas Winter wrote: I have to set up an Asterisk with an 4-port BRI card. Hylafax should send and receive fax. Will this work reliable? If the BRI channel driver works correctly, yes, you should be fine to use iaxmodem. Lee. ___ --Bandwidth

Re: [Asterisk-Users] rxfax problem

2006-10-24 Thread Lee Howard
Brian Candler wrote: On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 08:23:12PM -0700, Lee Howard wrote: If you don't mind saying, what is missing for full t.38 support? Steve giving Digium a royalty-free license to his GPL software or a pure-GPL branch of the Asterisk codebase, take your pick. Why

Re: [Asterisk-Users] rxfax problem

2006-10-24 Thread Lee Howard
Andrew Joakimsen wrote: But if we have asterisk and add on Steve's code wouldn't it (suppor to recieve a t.38 fax call and have spandsp decode it) work? What does Steve granting a license to Digium have to do with it? I don't care if Asterisk and the fax support don't come from the same

Re: [Asterisk-Users] rxfax problem

2006-10-23 Thread Lee Howard
Andrew Joakimsen wrote: On 10/23/06, *Steve Underwood* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latest test versions of the spandsp support both ECM and T.38. The T.38 functionality may not be available with Asterisk, though. Is there any other software it would work

Re: [asterisk-users] Bandwidth usage

2006-10-03 Thread Lee Howard
Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 10:33:38AM -0400, Steve Glaus wrote: I thought I'd ask this, just in case I'm wrong. We're trying to set up 'remote' users via asterisk. Basically all there is to this is asterisk forwarding a DID to a cell phone. My question is this: Is there

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax detection ...

2006-10-02 Thread Lee Howard
Jay R. Ashworth wrote: My personal experience is that I've never seen a consumer-grade fax machine with send-CNG turned off, and I don't *think* I've ever seen one on which there was a knob *to* turn it off; I would be less sure about fax modems -- those may have a knob, but I would expect it

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax detection ...

2006-10-02 Thread Lee Howard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It all boils down to this: If they don't send a tone I won't get the fax. And I certainly understand this approach. However, there are some situations where this is simply not suitable - where missing a fax costs money. Take, for example, the real estate

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax detection ...

2006-10-01 Thread Lee Howard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble detecting faxes reliably. I'm using one analog line for both voice and fax. Sometimes this works but a lot of the time it doesn't and I was wondering if anyone knew why. Well, fax detection isn't entirely reliable anyway. Even if you assume

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax detection ...

2006-10-01 Thread Lee Howard
Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:58:37PM -0700, Lee Howard wrote: Well, fax detection isn't entirely reliable anyway. Even if you assume that your fax detection feature and operation is flawless in properly detecting fax tones (and that most likely would be a specious

Re: [hylafax-users] [asterisk-users] asterisk, iaxmodem, hylafax quality problem

2006-09-24 Thread Lee Howard
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

Re: [asterisk-users] spandsp (foip)

2006-09-24 Thread Lee Howard
On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 01:58:21PM -0700, Christopher Corn wrote: A couple of faxing methods im confused about. The pass through method, sending fax data over G711 codec versus Relay method, t30 to t38 conversion Can someone explain to me why the pass through method doesn't

Re: [asterisk-users] spandsp (foip)

2006-09-24 Thread Lee Howard
Christopher Corn wrote: May I ask, from your own personal experience. is it not necessaritly worth (the headaches) of investing mytime into setting up SPANDSP into my asterisk system, but rather invest it into going to a company, like packet8 that offers t38 conversion? I am not really in

Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk, iaxmodem, hylafax quality problem

2006-09-21 Thread Lee Howard
Artifex Maximus wrote: Everything is fine when caller use ECM but when ECM isn't in use I often got unusable incoming faxes (much often that it should be). But when I switch back to fax machine that receive faxes perfectly (at least no visible error). The fax machine itself uses ECM,

Re: [asterisk-users] rxfax, spandsp and lack of ecm

2006-09-13 Thread Lee Howard
Artifex Maximus wrote: using a modem emulator connected through a virtual device to a fax software. It's sound as a very bizarre way to me. :-) Funny how it seemed to be a very straight-forward approach to me. Lee. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation

Re: [asterisk-users] Recent additions to the Digium Asteriskdevelopment team

2006-08-18 Thread Lee Howard
Douglas Garstang wrote: Or wait for free-switch (http://www.freeswitch.org) :) I don't see any docs on the web site. That's a great start. Unless I missed them somewhere. Huh? Tony writes lots and lots and heaps of documentation. http://www.freeswitch.org/docs/ Lee.

Re: [asterisk-users] IAXMODEM

2006-08-16 Thread Lee Howard
Giedrius Augys wrote: And when I make ./build , I get this: /tmp/cckNRgf3.o(.text+0xfc): In function `cleanup': /home/eryx/hylafax/iaxmodem-0.1.14/iaxmodem.c:165: undefined reference to `iax_destroy' You probably have a conflicting version of libiax2. try doing: ./build static instead.

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk IAXmodem HylaFax?

2006-08-11 Thread Lee Howard
Colin Anderson wrote: The only thing that keeps me from ditching Zetafax is it has a slick client that people like to use, unlike the barebones / kooky / barely-working assortment of clients available for Hylafax (Yes, I looked at Cypheus. It's crap. Yes I looked at WinHFC. It's good, but

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk IAXmodem HylaFax?

2006-08-11 Thread Lee Howard
Damon Estep wrote: According to the wiki page http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+IAXmodem There are a couple of ways to integrate Asterisk and HylaFax with IAXmodem; * IAXmodem as HylaFax modem, both HylaFax and Asterisk on the same machine In my opinion this

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk IAXmodem HylaFax?

2006-08-11 Thread Lee Howard
Colin Anderson wrote: The Zetafax client essentially uses port 139 and submits the .tif to a Windows share so I don;t think it would be really possible to modify it, interesting idea though. I wasn't talking about modifying the client, but rather working *with* the client. So if the

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk, IAXModem and Hylafax

2006-07-24 Thread Lee Howard
JR Richardson wrote: Is there any of you Hylafax guru's out there who may have a few minutes to help me get up to speed with the Hylafax setup and configuration conventions. You'll do well to look for help in HylaFAX forums/communities/archives rather than in an Asterisk one. That said,

Re: [asterisk-users] Zap channel faxing in or out fails but phone calls work.

2006-07-19 Thread Lee Howard
Jerry Jones wrote: Also if possible turn off ECM on the FAX machines This is unsound advice. Why do you think this could possily help? Lee. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or

Re: [asterisk-users] Zap channel faxing in or out fails but phone calls work.

2006-07-19 Thread Lee Howard
Maxim Vexler wrote: Check the paragraph on ECM at http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+fax Everything that you read on a wiki must be considered potentially bogus or otherwise misinformed. Let me rewrite that paragraph for you... ECM -

Re: [asterisk-users] Zap channel faxing in or out fails but phone calls work.

2006-07-19 Thread Lee Howard
Jerry Jones wrote: without ecm - line errors will cause slight imperfections (dots) on transmitted image with ecm - retry, retry, retry, fail In the ECM retransmissions only the frames that were not received properly are resent. Once the data to send is assembled by the sender

Re: [asterisk-users] Certain fax types cause problems

2006-07-11 Thread Lee Howard
Steve Davies wrote: Hmmm... I just switched to iaxmodem on a loopback interface as documented, and tried both Hylafax and efax. Both seemed to drop out on any fax larger than 3 pages. Then it's time to consider that your problems are not with spandsp, iaxmodem, or HylaFAX. My suggestion

Re: [asterisk-users] Which Fax Solution really works on IAX or SIP?

2006-07-10 Thread Lee Howard
Zeeshan Zakaria wrote: I am trying to setup fax on my phone system. Which fax-to-email and email-to-fax solution really works on IAX and SIP? Due to the way that your question has been asked I assume that you're talking about IAX or SIP over a latent internet connection to some VoIP

Re: [Asterisk-Users] RE: Voice calls sent to fax extension

2006-06-26 Thread Lee Howard
Paul A. Pringle wrote: I thought it might be an inadvertent button press, but none of the keys (on my phone at least) are recognized by Asterisk as fax tones. This has happened to two different users getting calls from different people using different equipment. Does anyone else see this

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: faxdetect questions - Please HELP!

2006-06-21 Thread Lee Howard
Colin Anderson wrote: I have 200 IAXModem's running on my HylaFAX server, no problem. Are you running an iaxmodem for every user? Lee. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: faxdetect questions - Please HELP!

2006-06-21 Thread Lee Howard
Okay, if that's easiest for you. Most people would have run enough iaxmodems to handle the load and then use the DID for routing the faxes, rather than the device. Lee. Colin Anderson wrote: yes. works fine. -Original Message- From: Lee Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: faxdetect questions - Please HELP!

2006-06-21 Thread Lee Howard
). Then HylaFAX passes that through as a $CALLID variable to your FaxDispatch script. And there you use it to determine your $SENDTO setting. Lee. Colin Anderson wrote: example config, please? -Original Message- From: Lee Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 5

Re: [Asterisk-Users] A few questions on a conversion to *

2006-06-16 Thread Lee Howard
Warren wrote: Am I best off using Hylafax? Yes. Lee. ___ --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

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Prices of g729 codec

2006-06-02 Thread Lee Howard
Brian C. Fertig wrote: Don't cheat digium out of money.. pay the $10 per license. Yes, be a good colonist and don't dump any more tea into the harbor. Lee. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Prices of g729 codec

2006-06-02 Thread Lee Howard
On Friday 02 June 2006 11:39, Lee Howard wrote: Don't cheat digium out of money.. pay the $10 per license. Yes, be a good colonist and don't dump any more tea into the harbor. Oh please. Brian's got the reasoning for paying for the license entirely wrong but at least his

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Prices of g729 codec

2006-06-02 Thread Lee Howard
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: On Friday 02 June 2006 13:00, Lee Howard wrote: The GPL very clearly defines the method of expressing deserved gratitude, and it is not in monetary support. What's this got to do with the GPL? the g729 codec code is *not* GPLd, and in fact can't be due

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Prices of g729 codec

2006-06-02 Thread Lee Howard
Alejandro Vargas wrote: 2006/6/2, Lee Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The messed-up reasoning was that Digium deserves monetary gratitude because they GPLd Asterisk... and you even said that the reasoning was wrong. Digium deserves all money they can win. I agree entirely. Note, however

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Prices of g729 codec

2006-06-02 Thread Lee Howard
trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 14:18 -0700, Lee Howard wrote: Andrew took issue with my initial sarcastic comment because this thread involves the G.729 codec - but remember that if someone does ultimately choose to obtain a license illegally that they're

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Prices of g729 codec

2006-06-02 Thread Lee Howard
trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote: If you did not mean to say they should have bought from Y but instead they might have bought from Y then you are correct that Y has no loss claim. That's what I meant, of course. But I cant make that determination because I can only go by what you did

Re: [Asterisk-Users] FAX and Asterisk

2006-05-22 Thread Lee Howard
Rene Nelson wrote: I want to accept faxes via SIP/IAX2 (yes I've read the posts that it isnt reccomended). My PBX is 100% Virtual with the exception of one IAX connection to bring in the calls from another * box, I have no phone hardware. I am interested in doing autodetect fax to email. I

Re: [Asterisk-Users] FAX over PRI

2006-05-19 Thread Lee Howard
Tom Christensen wrote: IAXmodem uses spandsp the same way rxfax does right? Not entirely true, but yes it is partially true. spandsp is a library, iaxmodem uses part of it, and rxfax uses part of it, and there is an overlap, but it's not an identical overlap. Lee.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Which is the best fax-modem for testing ?

2006-05-16 Thread Lee Howard
Olivier Krief wrote: For example, it seems that Brother 8360P uses Super G3 mode. Is there a fax-modem offering such capability so that I could easily check if I still cannot hangup when I enable or disable Super G3 mode ? MultiTech 5634-series and MainPine RockForce fax modems (Agere

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Which is the best fax-modem for testing ?

2006-05-16 Thread Lee Howard
Olivier Krief wrote: Would you use such modems to run a batch script to check various fax protocols ( V.34, super G3, ...) ? You could, yes. Would it be easy with Hylafax to change modem settings so that first attempt is made in V.34, second attempt with ECM, third without ECM etc.. and

Re: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards,

2006-04-19 Thread Lee Howard
Olivier Krief wrote: 1. Does using iaxmodem imply that, for example, incoming fax calls are processed that way ? - PSTN calls are terminated on TDM board (Digium, Sangoma, ...) Yes. The PSTN call terminates there and (usually) takes a short IAX2 hop over the loopback adapter to iaxmodem.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk 1.2.7.1 and IAX modem / channel

2006-04-19 Thread Lee Howard
Pimjai Wesnarat wrote: Or does IAXModem not work with Asterisk 1.2.7.1? IAXmodem works just fine with Asterisk 1.2.7.1. Lee. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options

Re: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards,

2006-04-18 Thread Lee Howard
Doug Lytle wrote: Steve Underwood wrote: Doug Lytle wrote: Nicholas Kathmann wrote: If you need to tweak gains something is seriously wrong. The 2 fax machines that I was having problem with were failing to train at 9600bps, they would then try at 7200 and finally train at 4800.

Re: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !)

2006-04-17 Thread Lee Howard
Rich Adamson wrote: I don't believe you will ever get POTS - FXO-TDM400P-to-anything to work properly due to TDM card limitations. So, move all of those to the bottom of your list. If you pay close attention to those postings from the last two years in which users say fax works, the

Re: Faxing and PCI (was Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !)

2006-04-17 Thread Lee Howard
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: On Monday 17 April 2006 08:21, Lee Howard wrote: I and other iaxmodem users can say fax works with analog PSTN connections. In my case, as well as those others of which I am aware, an X100P (clone, er winmodem) is being used. Interesting. Do you have more

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium cards, so disappointing !

2006-04-13 Thread Lee Howard
Tony ROBIN wrote: Now we want to receive fax ( 20/day) on it and guess what ? Since April 2006 (again a few months after we bought our brand new card), officially, fax communications is not supported with Digium cards ( http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+fax ). Of course, I should have

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Iaxmodem speed limit?

2006-04-01 Thread Lee Howard
Carlos Chavez wrote: I just installed Hylafax with Iaxmodem and I am not getting good results when receiving faxes. I can see that the modem is reporting the following: Mar 31 16:19:08 pbxoficina FaxGetty[5377]: MODEM Supports 2400 bit/s Mar 31 16:19:08 pbxoficina FaxGetty[5377]:

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk in production as a fax server, anyone?

2006-03-30 Thread Lee Howard
Adolfo R. Brandes wrote: After combing these lists for clues, we began experimenting extensively with Asterisk and its software DSP and fax capabilities in most of their incarnations, such as Rxfax or Iaxmodem/Hylafax, together with Digium's E1 cards in server-grade Intel motherboards,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Asterisk in production as a fax server, anyone?

2006-03-30 Thread Lee Howard
Adolfo R. Brandes wrote: Lee Howard wrote: The concurrent calls really isn't that big of a deal, either, if those are your thoughts. The bigger issue seems to be the quality of the audio as it is delivered to the fax application/modem. Interesting. The little information I've found

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Asterisk in production as a fax server, anyone?

2006-03-30 Thread Lee Howard
Don Pobanz wrote: Adolfo R. Brandes wrote: Lee Howard wrote: However, based on the comments you give I'd suspect that you're having what people seem to be calling frame slipping. There seem to be some motherboards that react poorly with Zap cards (or their respective drivers) and cause

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and Hylafax, on the same box

2006-03-30 Thread Lee Howard
Mike wrote: I thought I'd check in with people here. Lets say I wanted to put together a Hylafax server, and an Asterisk server on the same box. And, for the sake of making things simple, I wanted to use a single T1 board for both Is this possible? Yes. I've not investigated the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk in production as a fax server, anyone?

2006-03-30 Thread Lee Howard
Olivier Krief wrote: What would be an acceptable zttest result to avoid fax frame slippings ? A result of 100% would be acceptable. :-) I believe that 99.8% seems to be also acceptable... at least according to popular concensus. However, 92% is very bad, and at that result you would

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Fax Question

2006-03-03 Thread Lee Howard
Michael Sampson wrote: Your best bet is to just not use fax machines. They are outdated technology. It is older technology, true... but certainly it's not useless technology. Certainly there is nothing yet to replace it properly. And I could argue this on a technological standpoint, and

Re: [Asterisk-Users] fax receive using TDM400P

2006-02-24 Thread Lee Howard
Anton Krall wrote: Well, I have the same effect on my TDM as in the E1 using unicall... Faxes get here as garbage :( I really would like to see sometime some audio recordings made by IAXmodem for people that had problems with TDMs and faxing with rxfax/txfax. Not that I have some hope of

Re: [Asterisk-Users] fax receive using TDM400P

2006-02-24 Thread Lee Howard
Anton Krall wrote: Any modification made to zapata as far as echo and gains? As a rule, don't let anything manipulate the audio at all... even echo cancellation. That said, I have seen situations where gain had to be increased. Should echocancel be on or off? Off, most definitely

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and T38 Fax

2006-02-21 Thread Lee Howard
Carey Mould wrote: How can I get asterisk to work with faxes in my configuration? I have a WAN with Asterisk at the centre and Mediatrix 1104 gateways at the end nodes providing tone to legacy PBX's and fax machines. The Asterisk is connected to the PSTN via a Digium single port t1. The end

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Application Faxing using SIP

2006-02-20 Thread Lee Howard
Phil Blundell wrote: I suspect that the datapath through our regular network switches is probably close enough to lossless for this purpose as well. You could be surprised. I know that I have been suprised by how easy it is for a UDP packet to get dropped or lost. I've had a few customers

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Application Faxing using SIP

2006-02-20 Thread Lee Howard
Jerry Jones wrote: Turning ECM seems to cause most of my issues with FAX. Most newer machines have this on by default. However if there is any packet loss, then when ECM tries to resend and there is additional loss, then it gets in a loop and everything just fails. Whereas with ECM off,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Application Faxing using SIP

2006-02-19 Thread Lee Howard
Phil Blundell wrote: 1. Connect the fax machine to an ATA and have it speak SIP or IAX to * This will work provided that you can create a near-lossless communication path between the ATA and the PSTN gateway (which is the Asterisk box, I assume). One way of creating that, I would

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Application Faxing using SIP

2006-02-18 Thread Lee Howard
J Poz wrote: Using an analog line is not an option for my service. My application runs on a ROOT SERVER of an ASP. So I can do anything I want to the server but I can't connect to or get external analog lines. So my options are doing faxing via the Internet (VOIP/SIP) or use a faxing

Re: [Asterisk-Users] fax - misdn - zap - fax // fax - misdn - ATA - fax

2006-02-08 Thread Lee Howard
Steve Underwood wrote: When you are truly aware how non-optimal faxing over a VoIP channel is, you will give up. :-) This isn't a joke. Its the best advice I can give. Some people will tell you they have something that works. Well, lucky old them. Its not a reliably reproducible phenomenon.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] txfax application problem

2006-01-30 Thread Lee Howard
Allan Gee wrote: I wonder if anyone can tell me which version of spandsp is used in iaxmodem? IAXmodem version 0.0.8 uses spandsp development snapshot 20051220... so it's 0.0.3, more recent than pre6. I would like to use the app_rxfax application WITH iaxmodem. This will be possible

Re: [Asterisk-Users] fax detect DID variable

2006-01-26 Thread Lee Howard
James Armstrong wrote: Has anyone been able to get the original DID number when a fax comes in and is detected using the Zap fax detect? In your incoming call context where fax calls come in you need to Set some user variable to ${EXTEN} before the dialplan continues, because once the fax

Re: [Asterisk-Users] fax detect DID variable

2006-01-26 Thread Lee Howard
James Armstrong wrote: Ok, I got the number called in DNID, but now I need to pass it to the IAXModem so Hylafax can use it to route the email. The use CALLID1-4. It looks like CALLID 1 2 are the caller and CALLID3 is the Extension at the time the call is made to the IAXModem extension,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Conversation interrupted by fax

2006-01-20 Thread Lee Howard
Alexander Lopez wrote: 1 Try disabling faxdetection on your lines The sad thing is that I believe faxdetect is suppost to automagically disable itself after the first several seconds of a call passes. However, in my experience faxdetect seems to kick in at any time during a call if

Re: [Asterisk-Users] modem simulation

2006-01-18 Thread Lee Howard
Frank Liu wrote: I've seen there are spandsp, iaxmodem to simulate a modem for receiving faxes under asterisk. Hylafax can be tricked to think it is a real modem. Can I create a dialup/access server with the same method? Can ppp run on top of this software modem? IAXmodem and spandsp

Re: [Asterisk-Users] spandsp, rxfax, TDM400/zaptel, missed frames, any help?

2006-01-10 Thread Lee Howard
Ben Fried wrote: On 1/9/06, Adam Goryachev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd strongly suggest that people having problems, and who are interested in marketing this as a solution, do some testing with different motherboards/systems/etc and find a combination that works. Once you have that, simply

Re: [Asterisk-Users] RE: Fax, txfax -bizarre thing

2006-01-09 Thread Lee Howard
andrutto wrote: Yeah, but to traditional PBX central you can plug fax machine hassle free. Well, in theory you should be able to do the same with Asterisk: plug fax machines into FXS ports on the box. I say in theory because I've not done that myself, and I've heard rumors of past

Re: [Asterisk-Users] spandsp, rxfax, TDM400/zaptel, missed frames, any help?

2006-01-09 Thread Lee Howard
Rich Adamson wrote: I'm certainly not the expert on this topic, but I believe the issue has to do with the pci bus and probably relates to the TigerJet chip used on the card. Until that's addressed, any analog modem use through the card will be marginal at best. (Same issue as with the older

Re: [Asterisk-Users] spandsp, rxfax, TDM400/zaptel, missed frames, any help?

2006-01-09 Thread Lee Howard
Rich Adamson wrote: I'm certainly not the expert on this topic, but I believe the issue has to do with the pci bus and probably relates to the TigerJet chip used on the card. Until that's addressed, any analog modem use through the card will be marginal at best. (Same issue as with the older

Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: IAXModem in inittab causes modem to be unres ponsive, running from console it's OK

2006-01-09 Thread Lee Howard
Colin Anderson wrote: faxguy, maybe you can tell me why As I've noted in previous posts I'm evaluating HylaFax with IAXModem. When I run iaxmodem and faxgetty through a console the modem works 100% I have yet to find a fax that it won't tie up with. When I run IAXmodem and faxgetty in

Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: IAXModem in inittab causes modem to be u nres ponsive, running from console it's OK

2006-01-09 Thread Lee Howard
Colin Anderson wrote: good tips ill try that out thanks ps is there a recommended runlevel or 2345 is ok? Runlevels indicate in which runlevels you want init to run the entry. 0 is halt, 1 is single-user mode, 2 is multiuser without NFS, 3 is multiuser, 4 is unused, 5 is X11, 6 is reboot.

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