Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk + iaxmodem + hylafax makes sometimes wedged for hylafax

2013-07-09 Thread Lee Howard
On 07/04/2013 08:49 AM, Gianni Fioretta wrote: Hi, we have a faxserver with Asterisk, IAXModem and Hylafax. Faxes come from a SIP trunk to Asterisk, then are forwarded throught 5 IAXModems managed with Hylafax. Hylafax users can also send faxes to these modems and Asterisk send them throught

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax Configuration

2012-11-05 Thread Lee Howard
On 11/05/2012 04:18 PM, Roy Abshire wrote: What is the best way for me to setup Fax Capability with VOIP only. You can use T.38, perhaps, if your VoIP provider supports it and you can get it working. But unless you need faxes to go through the telephony system (i.e. you have fax machines

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax for Asterisk success rates?

2012-10-04 Thread Lee Howard
On 10/04/2012 09:27 AM, Carlos Alvarez wrote: However I'd just suggest that you look at the business case for screwing around with fax at all. As a society, if we had decided to stop supporting this dead technology years ago, with all the time and money we've collectively wasted we could have

Re: [asterisk-users] TDM Fax

2012-08-18 Thread Lee Howard
On 08/17/2012 04:58 AM, Steve Underwood wrote: On 08/17/2012 06:08 AM, Eric Wieling wrote: Has anyone experimented with increasing the DAHDI chunk size in improve fax reliability? If so, did it help, hurt, or not make any difference? I haven't found issues related to the DAHDI chunk size.

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.8.12 and Fax?

2012-07-23 Thread Lee Howard
On 07/23/2012 09:23 AM, motty.cruz wrote: Hello, I'm trying get fax working over VOIP lines. I'm running Asterisk 1.8.12 server, working fine, however I would like to get rid of our anolog fax lines and integrate with our fax to our Asterisk Server. Any recomendataion from this list? I had done

Re: [asterisk-users] T.30 Fax session error: Received bad response to DCS or training

2012-07-01 Thread Lee Howard
On 07/01/2012 01:46 AM, Petros Moisiadis wrote: Hello, On http://pastebin.com/AP5GBWUR you may see an excerpt from asterisk full log that includes a failing fax sending session. As you can see in line 328, the transmission fails with error Received bad response to DCS or training. It seems that

Re: [asterisk-users] VOIP PBX replacement suggestions?

2012-06-07 Thread Lee Howard
On 06/07/2012 06:18 AM, Daniel Seagraves wrote: On Jun 6, 2012, at 10:47 PM, Lee Howard wrote: Unless you're going to move to an internet fax service provider you'll probably not want to attempt to switch your fax line to a VoIP line and still attempt to fax over it. And even

Re: [asterisk-users] VOIP PBX replacement suggestions?

2012-06-06 Thread Lee Howard
On 06/06/2012 12:40 PM, Daniel Seagraves wrote: The boss wants to move from landline service to VOIP service as a cost-cutting measure. We have one voice line and one fax line. The telco is billing over $100 a month for the two. We're using Hylafax for faxing and a PBX for the voice line.

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax Problem on direct FXO port

2012-05-18 Thread Lee Howard
On 05/18/2012 04:45 AM, Sebastian Gutierrez wrote: with FFA I may get 70% of faxes ok. Nobody that I work with would consider that acceptable. Lee. -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com --

Re: [asterisk-users] how to set iaxmodem receiving speed

2012-05-17 Thread Lee Howard
On 05/17/2012 07:40 AM, gincantalupo wrote: That could seem counter-intuitive but it is not. Not to mention the fact that information technology is not science, the solution to broken faxes is to lower down speed. The DSP algorithms change slightly between bitrates and considerably between

Re: [asterisk-users] how to set iaxmodem receiving speed

2012-05-17 Thread Lee Howard
On 05/17/2012 07:53 AM, Andrew Furey wrote: we use ActiveFax for sending (interfaced from an ERP package) and often get Comm Error 283 and incomplete faxes. If it's just making a bad situation worse, how is it that our solution of turning off ECM mode fixes it 98% of the time? I'm curious.

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax .pdf from Asterisk

2012-05-03 Thread Lee Howard
On 05/03/2012 01:28 PM, Bruce B wrote: I want to send out 1000 faxes. I have an excel sheet of numbers and I have Asterisk 1.8 installed from repository. I don't want to use a fax machine or any ATAs or analogue equipment. How would Asterisk help me with faxing these? and what add-ons do I

Re: [asterisk-users] problems with hylafax + iaxmodem + asterisk1.8.5

2011-09-02 Thread Lee Howard
me? thanks -- From: Lee Howard fax...@howardsilvan.com Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 6:29 PM To: ales...@asistar.it Cc: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] problems

Re: [asterisk-users] Faxes suddenly failing

2011-09-01 Thread Lee Howard
kirsten du toit wrote: You should try disabling ecm.. This seems crazy to me. Why are you recommending it? Lee. -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live

Re: [asterisk-users] Faxes suddenly failing

2011-09-01 Thread Lee Howard
Steve Underwood wrote: On 09/01/2011 11:50 PM, Lee Howard wrote: kirsten du toit wrote: You should try disabling ecm.. This seems crazy to me. Why are you recommending it? Because its the industry standard last resort of anyone who doesn't understand FAX and is using T.38. Even HP

Re: [asterisk-users] problems with hylafax + iaxmodem + asterisk1.8.5

2011-09-01 Thread Lee Howard
Alessio wrote: I have 2 computers in the lan, one is the Asterisk PBX and the other is the server with hylafax and iaxmodem installed. . Sep 1 16:50:11 FAXServer FaxGetty[6225]: -- [4:RING] Sep 1 16:50:11 FAXServer FaxGetty[6225]: ANSWER: Call ID 1 06654321 Sep 1 16:50:11 FAXServer

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX Issues

2011-08-09 Thread Lee Howard
Ryan McGuire wrote: Unless your network is under load and you are seeing dropped packets and high jitter, I would absolutely not do T.38. The cheapest and easiest approach that I have found is to buy yourself an FXS gateway and just make sure you are using ulaw. As SIP is usually running over

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX Issues

2011-08-09 Thread Lee Howard
Steve Totaro wrote: On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Lee Howard fax...@howardsilvan.com wrote: Ryan McGuire wrote: Unless your network is under load and you are seeing dropped packets and high jitter, I would absolutely not do T.38. The cheapest and easiest approach that I have found

Re: [asterisk-users] Securing Asterisk

2011-07-26 Thread Lee Howard
Here are a few guidelines that I think may serve you well... Firstly, every network port that is being listened-to on any publicly-reachable system MUST be carefully protected - typically by firewalling. So, for example, you're likely going to want to block SSH from all but certain IPs. In

Re: [asterisk-users] receive faxes

2011-05-04 Thread Lee Howard
David Backeberg wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:00 PM, A J Stiles asterisk_l...@earthshod.co.uk wrote: (For my part, I'm actually surprised that nobody came up with a proper protocol for encapsulating the stream of zeros and ones that make up a fax transmission but rely on the precise

Re: [asterisk-users] alarm POTS lines

2010-12-04 Thread Lee Howard
Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: I don't think I have a prayer of hacking iaxmodem to do what is needed to emulate a modem though :) I can't pretend to know what an alarm system needs out of a modem, but as far as iaxmodem acquiring data-modem capabilities that part is already developing. IAXmodem

Re: [asterisk-users] sending T.38 fax negotiation problem

2010-05-04 Thread Lee Howard
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: On 05/04/2010 06:30 AM, Miguel Amez wrote: I'm experiencing the same problem with t38modem and hylafax. My problem is that on the re-Invite phase it syncs lower than 2400 bpps and the connection hangs on the second page. The patch I'm talking about won't

Re: [asterisk-users] [asterisk-biz] Foip solution

2010-03-29 Thread Lee Howard
Mike Diehl wrote: I could probably get hylafax configured, but I'm not sure how reliable it is. If it is considered reliable, would someone let me know? It's reliable as long as you're not using FoIP (i.e. as long as you're faxing with PSTN lines). Thanks, Lee. --

Re: [asterisk-users] Detected digit 'f'

2010-01-25 Thread Lee Howard
Kingsley Tart wrote: DEBUG[18902] chan_dahdi.c: Detected digit 'f' This happens just after the initial fax negotiation has started and seems to correspond with the sending fax machine giving up. Turn off fax detection. Thanks, Lee. --

Re: [asterisk-users] iaxmodem / hylafax receive problem

2010-01-17 Thread Lee Howard
Kingsley Tart wrote: Jan 14 12:44:49.39: [ 3403]: -- [9:AT+FRH=3\r] Jan 14 12:44:56.39: [ 3403]: -- [0:] Jan 14 12:44:56.39: [ 3403]: MODEM Empty line Jan 14 12:44:56.39: [ 3403]: MODEM TIMEOUT: waiting for v.21 carrier Jan 14 12:44:56.39: [ 3403]: -- data [1] Jan 14 12:44:56.39: [ 3403]: --

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk and Faxing

2009-12-24 Thread Lee Howard
Miguel Molina wrote: Please correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK spandsp based fax applications for asterisk only support a maximum of 9600bps. No. V.17 (speeds up to 14400 bps) are supported. Thanks, Lee. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided

[asterisk-users] allowguest defaults to yes for SIP

2009-11-12 Thread Lee Howard
In your sip.conf file allowguest defaults to yes. This means that anyone that can reach the SIP ports on that system has access to make unauthenticated calls, by default. The administrator actually has to go in and turn it off to prevent unauthenticated SIP calls (in whatever context

Re: [asterisk-users] allowguest defaults to yes for SIP

2009-11-12 Thread Lee Howard
Tilghman Lesher wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 07:47:34 Lee Howard wrote: In your sip.conf file allowguest defaults to yes. This means that anyone that can reach the SIP ports on that system has access to make unauthenticated calls, by default. The administrator actually has to go

Re: [asterisk-users] allowguest defaults to yes for SIP

2009-11-12 Thread Lee Howard
Tilghman Lesher wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 09:53:17 Lee Howard wrote: These people should need to deliberately use allowguest=yes. I would venture to guess that these people already know who they are and deliberately have this set. I would venture to guess that there are far, far

Re: [asterisk-users] allowguest defaults to yes for SIP

2009-11-12 Thread Lee Howard
Tilghman Lesher wrote: The issue in question was suspended, while the reporter makes the case on the Asterisk-dev mailing list, which is not this list. The opinions there amongst contributors (meritocracy, not democracy) are that keeping the sample configuration as it is now is probably

Re: [asterisk-users] allowguest defaults to yes for SIP

2009-11-12 Thread Lee Howard
Danny Nicholas wrote: Gentlemens clubs usually don't have any. While LH probably has a valid point, jumping on Til isn't the way to bring it home. You can't protect the stupid or lazy from themselves. If you can't do this right, pay someone else to. You're suggesting that if I pay someone

Re: [asterisk-users] allowguest defaults to yes for SIP

2009-11-12 Thread Lee Howard
Michiel van Baak wrote: When I started working with asterisk, and found my first issue, I created a patch, put it on the tracker, followed up on the comments, and stuff got in. I'm sincerely pleased to know that you've had a different experience than have I. If you read the page about

Re: [asterisk-users] allowguest defaults to yes for SIP

2009-11-12 Thread Lee Howard
Michael Wyres wrote: The way I see it, the reason you have encountered some resistance to your opinion in regards to whether guest access should be allowed by default or should not be, is not because your opinion is right or wrong - everyone is entitled to an opinion - and your stance has

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.4 and Fax

2009-11-02 Thread Lee Howard
I've heard of people who go to casinos and come home with a couple thousand bucks winnings, too. But the truth is that invariably the vast majority of people who gamble don't win. http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/docs/fax-over-voip.pdf Everyone wants to see if they're lucky. The smart ones,

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.4 and Fax

2009-11-02 Thread Lee Howard
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: Lee Howard wrote: I've heard of people who go to casinos and come home with a couple thousand bucks winnings, too. But the truth is that invariably the vast majority of people who gamble don't win. http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/docs/fax-over-voip.pdf

Re: [asterisk-users] Faxing over Carrier SIP trunk/g711 ?

2009-08-02 Thread Lee Howard
Jason Aarons (US) wrote: Anyone have a customer sending/receiving multi-page faxes over Verizon Business SIP trunk/g711 ? Verizon Business indicates they don’t support it, and I have 2 recent customers that it doesn’t work for, and 1 current large customer telling me he’s going to make

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX Machine Testing ...

2009-07-24 Thread Lee Howard
Gordon Henderson wrote: Not FAX over VoIP, but testing 2 FAX machines back to back ... The scenario is that a client has one of my asterisk VoIP only systems which they're happy with, but need to test FAX machines, so rather than plug in a TDM card with FXS ports, I'm suggesting something

Re: [asterisk-users] [hylafax-users] No Carrier detected sendig fax with Hylafax-Iaxmodem-Asterisk

2009-06-22 Thread Lee Howard
Johann Steinwendtner wrote: Lee Howard schrieb: fred wrote: That’s being said, before going through the T38 Gateway tests, I’ve tried first the Fax2mail and Mail2fax solution with (Hylafax + Iaxmodem + Asterisk), to make a well-tested Asterisk solution working and I’m already

Re: [asterisk-users] [hylafax-users] No Carrier detected sendig fax with Hylafax-Iaxmodem-Asterisk

2009-06-21 Thread Lee Howard
fred wrote: That’s being said, before going through the T38 Gateway tests, I’ve tried first the Fax2mail and Mail2fax solution with (Hylafax + Iaxmodem + Asterisk), to make a well-tested Asterisk solution working and I’m already facing some problems. Receiving faxes is ok but sending

Re: [asterisk-users] Digium Fax Driver

2009-06-07 Thread Lee Howard
Tilghman Lesher wrote: What's the use case for the Digium driver? Am I missing something by not using it? While they accomplish the same goal, the commercial driver is based upon a different codebase, Ok. provides support for patented fax protocols, Really? V.34-fax (33,600 bps) is

Re: [asterisk-users] Digium Fax Driver

2009-06-07 Thread Lee Howard
Tilghman Lesher wrote: On Sunday 07 June 2009 19:39:50 Lee Howard wrote: Tilghman Lesher wrote: What's the use case for the Digium driver? Am I missing something by not using it? While they accomplish the same goal, the commercial driver is based upon a different codebase

Re: [asterisk-users] Faxing issues

2009-05-22 Thread Lee Howard
Todd S wrote: Our call path is Sip trunk from MAX TNT - Asterisk - T1 - Adtran endpoint converting sip trunk to copper line for house wiring. Users at the endpoint can receive faxes without a problem. However, sending faxes are not so friendly. 1 out of 5 faxes will send

Re: [asterisk-users] Digium fax failing

2009-04-26 Thread Lee Howard
Michael wrote: Anyway this is a great example of why MICROSOFT is worth billions, and Linux has to be given away. Not because Microsoft is L33T but because the majority of the stuff sold for Windows works out of the box. For what it's worth, their fax software doesn't work very well out of

Re: [asterisk-users] Digium fax failing

2009-04-26 Thread Lee Howard
Michael wrote: On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:40:12 you wrote: Slightly off topic, but M$ is worth billions because they started in 1976 or so, became the de facto standard, and were pretty cutthroat in the way they do business. They have a profit motive and have always taken the path that makes

Re: [asterisk-users] Faxing and TIFF files

2009-04-22 Thread Lee Howard
D Tucny wrote: 2009/4/22 Michael mich...@networkstuff.co.nz mailto:mich...@networkstuff.co.nz I use GPL Ghostscript 8.6.2 to produce the TIFF files for faxing. Does anyone know of a way, either while producing the file, or after, to tell how many pages have been produced?

Re: [asterisk-users] Peer 'iaxfax' is now UNREACHABLE! Time: 3

2009-04-20 Thread Lee Howard
Marco wrote: I've IAXModem and asterisk Asterisk 1.4.24 running on the same machine. They are linked together through localhost. I've turned qualify on for the iax peer. Periodically I've this message: [Apr 20 23:47:46] NOTICE[4641]: chan_iax2.c:9049 __iax2_poke_noanswer: Peer 'iaxfax' is

Re: [asterisk-users] Digium Fax for Asterisk questions

2009-04-19 Thread Lee Howard
Steve Underwood wrote: I wonder how much demand there is for colour FAXing. It's quite niche. When it's available people will have their fun with it for a few times, and after the novelty quickly wears off they never use it again. I have quietly enabled color receiving support on high-volume

Re: [asterisk-users] Sequential Ring Groups?

2009-04-16 Thread Lee Howard
Marshall Henderson wrote: However, when a fax is complete on that modem and another call comes into it, the modem is still in a state of 'settling down' from the last call and I'd like to have it ring a different channel if possible. iaxmodem stays busy for 5 seconds after going on-hook and

Re: [asterisk-users] T38modem in loopback mode does not work on asterisk 1.4.20.1

2009-04-14 Thread Lee Howard
David Backeberg wrote: It may be possible to use hylafax, but I don't know how or why you would. The reason *why* is generally due to support issues. For one, HylaFAX probably has a better T.30 implementation in its Class 1 driver than does app_fax. At least that historically has been true.

Re: [asterisk-users] T38modem in loopback mode does not work on asterisk 1.4.20.1

2009-04-14 Thread Lee Howard
Steve Underwood wrote: Lee Howard wrote: David Backeberg wrote: It may be possible to use hylafax, but I don't know how or why you would. The reason *why* is generally due to support issues. For one, HylaFAX probably has a better T.30 implementation in its Class

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX reliability

2009-04-13 Thread Lee Howard
Hi Steve, Steve Underwood wrote: In chan_dahdi.c there is now code that extends the buffering inside dadhi when a FAX is detected, and puts the buffering back to normal at the end. This isn't really a cure - its more of a bandaid. However, I expect it has the desired effect if they have

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX reliability

2009-04-13 Thread Lee Howard
Steve Underwood wrote: Hi Lee, Lee Howard wrote: Hi Steve, Steve Underwood wrote: In chan_dahdi.c there is now code that extends the buffering inside dadhi when a FAX is detected, and puts the buffering back to normal at the end. This isn't really a cure - its more of a bandaid

Re: [asterisk-users] ITSP's no longer supporting IAX?

2009-03-25 Thread Lee Howard
Steve Totaro wrote: IAX2 has been a lemon since it's inception. Sure, some people have success. It seems to work OK for IAXModem. I chose to use IAX2 in developing IAXmodem because IAX2 is relatively simple compared to SIP and because at the time I didn't know of any easy-to-use SIP

Re: [asterisk-users] Faxing success rate on PRI

2009-03-09 Thread Lee Howard
Marco Signorini wrote: Analyzing your answers, seems that fax handling is still today problematic with IAXModem and Hylafax... or I'm wrong? A single server that I administer, receiving 12,000 pages and sending 1,000 pages daily would seem to contradict your conclusions. Thanks, Lee.

Re: [asterisk-users] dahdi wcb4xxp and fax

2009-02-25 Thread Lee Howard
stoffell wrote: I wanted to switch from my current setup (mISDN) to the native dahdi with b410p support (wcb4xp). All works fine for normal phone calls but not for faxing. Faxes are distorted, if arriving at all, and hylafax logs the usual bad stuff (HDLC frame not byte-oriented.) Make

Re: [asterisk-users] Minimum version for asterisk and iaxmodem

2009-02-07 Thread Lee Howard
James Lamanna wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use iaxmodem against a very old version of asterisk (1.0.7 - its a debian sarge embedded system), yet when asterisk gets a call from iaxmodem, it says that the format for the call is unknown. Does anyone know if there is a minimum version of asterisk

Re: [asterisk-users] Hylafax asterisk iaxmodem problem

2008-10-23 Thread Lee Howard
voip crazy wrote: This calls arrive the asterisk box, asterisk detect that this calls are fax, asterisk answer the call, and then Hangup the call. But hylafax do not receive nothing. What does the CLI say about this call? Thanks, Lee. ___ --

Re: [asterisk-users] (announce) asterisk T.38 gateway

2008-07-13 Thread Lee Howard
Matt Watson wrote: I'd probably be a little pissed if I were Steve Underwood if somebody pocketed over 10k $USD for taking credit for a product that my free library did the bulk of the work for. I can't speak for Steve at all, but any major contributor to an open-source project faces this, so

Re: [asterisk-users] aSTERISK / Vicidial systems over 4MB fiber

2008-06-12 Thread Lee Howard
Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 08:02:24AM -0500, Tilghman Lesher wrote: One of the most frequent security issues comes not in the form of a software flaw, but simply in people choosing easy-to-guess passwords on the root account. There are two suggestions I have to reduce

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax solution for Asterisk

2008-05-22 Thread Lee Howard
Benny Amorsen wrote: Now, what's the story on Hylafax+? How is that different from Hylafax? See: http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/about.php Thanks, Lee. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax solution for Asterisk

2008-05-22 Thread Lee Howard
Gordon Henderson wrote: 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? spandsp includes a lot of

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax solution for Asterisk

2008-05-21 Thread Lee Howard
Sanjay Rajdev wrote: We are using Asterisk 1.4.13 on FC6 and have a T1 card with 20 DID's. We are wanting to use one of the DID's for Fax, is this possible or do we have to add some addition Hardware and what is the best way to do this. http://iaxmodem.sourceforge.net Thanks, Lee.

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax solution for Asterisk

2008-05-21 Thread Lee Howard
Steve Totaro wrote: You may need an additional server just to handle faxes if you are running many instances as they are CPU intensive. iaxmodem is not CPU intensive. 100 of them aren't. You can put that many on a typical modern machine and have them all faxing simultaneously and not see a

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax Machine Options

2008-05-20 Thread Lee Howard
Joseph L. Casale wrote: It turns out their SIP provider doesn't support the T.38 protocol for faxing. Their statement is if you really need it, use ulaw and AstraFax? I don't understand how AstraFax makes a difference in the process? It doesn't make a difference. uLaw over SIP/UDP still

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax Machine Options

2008-05-20 Thread Lee Howard
Benny Amorsen wrote: Lee Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Note that if you have a fax machine that performs some variant of T.37 (fax-over-email) and you have an on-line service provider that is willing to work with you... then you can rather easily get your fax machine faxing through

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax Machine Options

2008-05-19 Thread Lee Howard
Andreas van dem Helge wrote: Cisco gateway with T.38 support. That's the only real way to do faxing through asterisk. Although this statement has marginally more truth to it given the SIP-only context that the original poster provided, it is still substantially inaccurate. There are several

Re: [asterisk-users] Is there a distro with hlyafax rolled in?

2008-04-04 Thread Lee Howard
James Finstrom wrote: elastix *shivers* 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] Unable to establish handshaking with fax machine

2008-03-27 Thread Lee Howard
mark morreny wrote: I am simulating the sending of fax using sendfax through voip Ooops. Please see: http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/docs/fax-over-voip.pdf Thanks, Lee. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com --

Re: [asterisk-users] IAXModem - NDID=s

2008-02-18 Thread Lee Howard
Louwrens Benadé wrote: NDID=s What the hell!? Why is 'NDID=s'? Probably because at the point when your dialplan sends the call to iaxmodem ${EXTEN} is s. Thanks, Lee. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com --

Re: [asterisk-users] Connecting a Rolm CBX to Asterisk via T1?

2008-02-15 Thread Lee Howard
Joshua Kinard wrote: So I'm trying to work on this complex fax server setup, and part of it involves connecting my asterisk server to my Rolm CBX switch, via a T1 line. I plan on using Asterisk simply as a T1-PRI Bridge to IAXmodem (which in turn, activates HylaFax+ to handle the faxing).

Re: [asterisk-users] Connecting a Rolm CBX to Asterisk via T1?

2008-02-15 Thread Lee Howard
Joshua Kinard wrote: Another attached text file shows what iaxmodem is doing during all of this. Something about adjusting skew. [2008-02-15 17:11:12] Adjusting skew to -50. [2008-02-15 17:11:12] Adjusting skew to -100. [2008-02-15 17:11:12] Adjusting skew to -150. [2008-02-15

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.4 Fax

2008-01-01 Thread Lee Howard
Jonn R Taylor wrote: One of the things that I found is you need to add nojitterbuffer to the iaxmodem config file The reason that you need the nojitterbuffer in the iaxmodem config file is because you're actually getting at least some jitter. IAXmodem's jitterbuffer simply fills-in gaps due

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.4 Fax

2007-12-28 Thread Lee Howard
Al lists wrote: what method is preferred: haylafax and Iaxmodem or spnadsp for faxing. I think that you mean to say HylaFAX and IAXmodem or txfax/rxfax ... because spandsp is but a DSP/DCE library, and it cannot work alone, and iaxmodem uses spandsp. Thanks, Lee.

Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk hylafax iaxmodem

2007-10-17 Thread Lee Howard
Giedrius Augys wrote: I have problems with asterisk and hylafax+ iaxmodem. I can successfully send faxes to Panasonic KX-FT932 fax, but with Xerox WorkCentre M20i I have problems: No carrier. This is hylafax log, maybe you can suggest me where to find ... Oct 17 07:38:48.22: [22428]:

Re: [asterisk-users] Sangoma vs Digium: (was Re: ping too)

2007-10-05 Thread Lee Howard
Matthew Fredrickson wrote: Not to ignite any fires, but I don't think I've *ever* knowingly received a patch to libpri or chan_zap from them. And I've fixed a few protocol related bugs in libpri for people with Sangoma cards. It'd be nice if they at the very least supported the protocol

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX detection not working

2007-09-29 Thread Lee Howard
Joe Acquisto wrote: As I understand it, I must have faxdetect = incoming to enable detection of the fax tone. Then, I must have a [fax] context to pickup the line and send it to whatever extension the FAX device is on. It's a fax extension in the context where the call is at... not a fax

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax Problems with SpanDSP

2007-08-28 Thread Lee Howard
Christian Peter wrote: Can anybody help me with this issue. Please no switch to Hylafax mails, because I'm very happy with SpanDSP, it integrates nicely and works most time. *chuckle* Lee. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by

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

2007-08-21 Thread Lee Howard
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,

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

2007-08-21 Thread Lee Howard
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 --

Re: [asterisk-users] iaxmodem, chan_capi, hylafax problem and faxing in general

2007-08-15 Thread Lee Howard
Faris Raouf wrote: The problem is that when I run faxstat, it does not show hylafax connected to any tty. You're probably not running faxgetty (and your later comments below confirm this...) And when I try to run faxaddmodem (just to see what might happen) and select ttyIAX, I get an error

Re: [asterisk-users] Where to find t38modem

2007-08-05 Thread Lee Howard
The site lists openh323.org, but that's the old t38modem I think. The new one should be coming out here sometime: http://www.voxgratia.org/downloads.html However, right now I think that the SIP-compatible version is only in CVS: cvs -z9 -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/openh323 co

Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk1.2 to 1.4 g711a fax

2007-08-02 Thread Lee Howard
marek cervenka wrote: hi, i have problem with pass-through faxing with this scenario hylafax(iaxmodem) - iax - asterisk1 1.2.22 - sip - asterisk2 1.2.X(xen virtual) - linksys ATA i can fax to fax2mail on hylafax but after upgrade asterisk2 to 1.4 faxing is not working hylafax(iaxmodem) - iax

Re: [asterisk-users] Wrinkled faxes or missing lines with Hylafax + IAXModem + Asterisk

2007-07-31 Thread Lee Howard
Michael Rice wrote: Hello. We are running Asterisk 1.2.23 iaxmodem-0.2.1 and hylafax-4.3.3 When we send faxes the people who receive the faxes complain that they look wrinkled or smashed up. Sometimes they are missing random lines. Has anyone seen this happen, or know how to fix it? Well,

[asterisk-users] software bloat - is this really useful to anyone?

2007-07-30 Thread Lee Howard
http://www.asterisk.org/node/48327 I mean, really... you're kidding me, right? Lee. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:

Re: [asterisk-users] Any plans for proper faxing support

2007-07-19 Thread Lee Howard
Andrew Joakimsen wrote: I was wondering if there is any plan to support fully faxing in Asterisk, I.E.: A T38 Gateway of sorts. You can use Asterisk 1.4's T.38 pass-through support in combination with the new OPAL-using t38modem (currently CVS) which now supports SIP (and not just H.323) to

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax and Asterisk

2007-07-07 Thread Lee Howard
Andrew Nowrot wrote: I am trying to build reliable fax solution with asterisk, iaxmodem and hylafax. I am attempting to do this on Compaq DL-360 with 2 pentium 3 1.2 GHz (512 cache) and 2GB of RAM. I am using a Sangoma A101. After installing the newest zaptel and wanpipe-3.1.0 beta I did

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax Throughput

2007-06-26 Thread Lee Howard
Don Kelly wrote: I've tried timing faxes two ways: From a fax machine on a station port of an AltiGen PC/PBX served by an MCI PRI calling back into the same PRI and reaching a RightFax server on a station port behind the AltiGen. From the same fax machine on the same station port of the AltiGen

Re: [asterisk-users] RE: Bottom line on fax reception

2007-05-28 Thread Lee Howard
Steve Totaro wrote: Please qualify your usage. A couple faxes a day, a couple hundred, a couple thousand, or a couple hundred thousand? Couple hundred thousand per month - at least on one installation. Are you running asterisk and hylafax on the same machine? What is your TDM

Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-04 Thread Lee Howard
Gordon Henderson wrote: 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. If you needed

Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-04 Thread Lee Howard
Luki wrote: So essentially you need a pool of iaxmodems running on different ports, and then Dial() them until you find one that accepts your call. Or did I get that wrong? That seems really like a drawback to me The biggest drawback with app_rxfax is that if it crashes for whatever reason

Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-04 Thread Lee Howard
Luki wrote: So you are saying a pool if iaxmodems and a loop through Dial() to find an open one is the way to go? Yes. You could launch iaxmodems on-demand - as well as the corresponding faxgetty and wait for the initialization to finish - but it is better to just have a bunch of modems

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX on PRI and TE205P

2007-04-23 Thread Lee Howard
And 10,545 downloads in 33 releases. Crazy people! nik600 wrote: its in a beta state with only one member... is it a stable project? thanks On 4/23/07, Lee Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nik600 wrote: i have a PRI connected to a TE205P. Actually, can i send and receive FAX through

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX on PRI and TE205P

2007-04-23 Thread Lee Howard
, where the most important Voip problems are minimized... thanks On 4/23/07, Lee Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And 10,545 downloads in 33 releases. Crazy people! nik600 wrote: its in a beta state with only one member... is it a stable project? thanks

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX on PRI and TE205P

2007-04-22 Thread Lee Howard
nik600 wrote: i have a PRI connected to a TE205P. Actually, can i send and receive FAX through Asterisk using stable solutions? Or shall i connect an ATA to Asterisk and then a modem with Hylafax? I would suggest that using IAXmodem with HylaFAX would be more stable than using an

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax Blast over IP?

2007-04-12 Thread Lee Howard
Wiley Siler wrote: Can anyone recommend software that will allow me to utilize my VoIP provider and send fax over IP? No, but I can recommend that you read this to see why you shouldn't bother: http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/docs/fax-over-voip.pdf Lee.

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax Blast over IP?

2007-04-12 Thread Lee Howard
Wiley Siler wrote: Basically, I want to send bulk faxes to a list of my clients. It is time consuming for a person to individually fax so a blast type solution seems best. Over IP is of course to save money... Thanks for the link, reading now... Any suggestions for the blast then? My

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX thru TDM400p

2007-04-06 Thread Lee Howard
Joe Acquisto wrote: AFAIK, the FAX targets are normal FAX machines, on the PSTN. What happens is, there appears to be a dial out, and a FAX negotiation, but it always fails. What does zttest say about your zap card configuration/installation? If it's not always 99.98% or better then it's

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX thru TDM400p

2007-04-06 Thread Lee Howard
Joe Acquisto wrote: Lee Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote: 4/6/2007 2:15 PM: Joe Acquisto wrote: AFAIK, the FAX targets are normal FAX machines, on the PSTN. What happens is, there appears to be a dial out, and a FAX negotiation, but What it always fails. What does zttest say

Re: [asterisk-users] FAX mISDN

2007-03-29 Thread Lee Howard
LKS GMAIL wrote: Does anybody know how to receive send faxes throw mISDN? It's almost impossible! I know that IAXmodem users are doing it. They have to get the right version of the mISDN stuff, though, I think. Lee. ___ --Bandwidth and

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

2007-03-20 Thread Lee Howard
younss azzayani wrote: and this is the /var/spool/hylafax/log/c1: http://pastebin.ca/403282 cat /var/spool/hylafax/log/c3 :: http://pastebin.ca/403291 What does zttest say? If it's below 99.98% then hardware configuration is where the problem is. Lee.

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