I'm doing this from memory, so there may be errors. I'm using [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2 as a base, though I'd added a bunch of RPMs for things like fonts along the way.
Install hylafax - if you [EMAIL PROTECTED], there's a CentOS RPM for hylafax you can use. I believe I had to install some (obvious) dependencies, but they were straightforward and easy to do with yum; then I had to make some symlinks for the ghostscript fontss and one or two other things; the hylafax setup tells you where it looks for stuff and if it found it or not. Building iaxmodem is a tiny bit tricky; it uses a different version of spandsp from what [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s build of rxfax and txfax uses, which causes asterisk to crash if it had loaded rxfax and txfax, and it also and overwrites the install location of what came with [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had to remove the dso's for rxfax and txfax after installing iaxmodem and restart asterisk, and all was fine. I made some trivial changes to the default iaxmodem configuration, which I don't think were significant (told it to use ulaw, but it seems to negotiate to the slinear codec anyway). Run iaxmodem on the same machine running Asterisk. I had to change the iax.conf [general] stanza to bandwidth=high and tos=reliability, and to add allow=slinear In the [EMAIL PROTECTED] AMP console, add an iax extension. It has to have a numeric extension identifier. Make that be the "peername" filed of the iaxmodem config. In the AMP console, specify that extension 300 (or whatever extension # you made iaxmodem) is the handler for faxes. Run faxgetty on ttyIAX with the configuration that came with iaxmodem. At this point, you can test to see if things are working or not. Send yourself some faxes. /var/spool/hylafax/log has a separate log file for each inbound or outbound fax; you can tail them and the asterisk logs to see what's going on. I get a lot of HDLC errors but they all seem benign. If everything works, the inbound faxes will be delivered as PDF to whoever the recipient of FaxMaster mail. sendfax sends faxes; it also leaves logs in /var/spool/hylafax/log. Once you're sure everything's working, make sure everything will come back on startup. I added the following two lines to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s /etc/rc3.d/S99local: /usr/local/bin/iaxmodem ttyIAX > /var/log/iaxmodem.stdout 2> /var/log/iaxmodem.stderr & /usr/sbin/faxgetty ttyIAX & Using inittab seems like a more elegant approach: it will respawn processes that exit unexpectedly and this won't, but it wasn't clear to me that I could have lines in inittab that I knew were executed after S99local. IMHO, iaxmodem and hylafax should be standard parts of [EMAIL PROTECTED], and are far preferable to rxfax and txfax. Aside from the virtue of working where the asterisk builtins don't, hylafax is a far more mature, complete, and feature-rich fax engine, with a strong community around it. Good luck. Ben On 1/17/06, Philip Edelbrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ben Fried wrote: > > Just to be clear, I have inbound and outbound faxes working with my > > TDM400, by going the iaxmodem and hylafax route. No need for a > > separate modem or an x100p card. > > > > Be > > > > Ah, that's interesting. Can you provide some details on how you set it up? > > > Phil > _______________________________________________ --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
