Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-04 Thread Doug Lytle
mail-lists wrote: Does anyone know how to best handle faxing in 1.2.18? http://iaxmodem.sourceforge.net http://hylafax.sourceforge.net Small foot print, works great with Asterisk and supports error correction. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to pur

Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-04 Thread Stefan Wintermeyer
Steve, Am 04.05.2007 um 14:44 schrieb mail-lists: I'm trying to compile asterisk from source (1.2.18). Faxing is fairly critical for us, so in the past we've used spandsps app_rxfax and app_txfax to support faxing in asterisk. Unfortunately I can't find these applications on soft-switch.org

Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-04 Thread Thomas Göttgens
mail-lists schrieb: I'm trying to compile asterisk from source (1.2.18). Faxing is fairly critical for us, so in the past we've used spandsps app_rxfax and app_txfax to support faxing in asterisk. Unfortunately I can't find these applications on soft-switch.org anymore and even so I have a fee

Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-04 Thread mail-lists
Stefan Wintermeyer wrote: Steve, Am 04.05.2007 um 14:44 schrieb mail-lists: I'm trying to compile asterisk from source (1.2.18). Faxing is fairly critical for us, so in the past we've used spandsps app_rxfax and app_txfax to support faxing in asterisk. Unfortunately I can't find these applica

Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-04 Thread Doug Lytle
Thomas Göttgens wrote: IF you don't want to reinvent the wheel and switch to iaxmodem/hylafax, use them instead :-) I wouldn't consider that re-inventing the wheel. If faxes are 'critical', then I wouldn't use anything but iaxmodem and HylaFAX+ :-) Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: "Those

Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-04 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Fri, 4 May 2007, mail-lists wrote: Stefan Wintermeyer wrote: Steve, Am 04.05.2007 um 14:44 schrieb mail-lists: I'm trying to compile asterisk from source (1.2.18). Faxing is fairly critical for us, so in the past we've used spandsps app_rxfax and app_txfax to support faxing in asterisk. U

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 th

RE: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-04 Thread Kevin Collins
lf Of Lee Howard Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 1:17 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax Gordon Henderson wrote: > The downside of iaxmodem is that (to my knowledge) you can't easilly > implement an auto-answer/

Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-04 Thread Per Jessen
Gordon Henderson wrote: > iaxmodem is a softare modem. It's a program which takes an IAX channel > and gives you a serial-line like interface. You can send AT commands > to it and get/send digital data directly. This is what people connect > HylaFax to. HylaFax is a suit pf programs that have been

Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-04 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Lee Howard wrote: 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 i

Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-04 Thread Luki
Forget them! Use Hylafax and iaxmodem instead. I wondering, how do you guys handle multiple calls? We frequently get many concurrent faxes, sometimes even to the same number. As far as I know, one instance of iaxmodem can only support one fax session at a time. So essentially you need a pool of

Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-04 Thread Doug Lytle
Luki wrote: Forget them! Use Hylafax and iaxmodem instead. I wondering, how do you guys handle multiple calls? We frequently get I have 23 iaxmodems running on my each of my Asterisk/HylaFAX+ servers. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a

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 Luki
So you'd rather have the entire PBX crash in order to avoid creating sufficient iaxmodem instances to handle your fax call load? No, but so far this occurred only once in about a year of service. Not ideal, but "acceptable" considering Asterisk itself segfaults or deadlocks every now for no appa

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

Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-07 Thread Olivier
2007/5/5, Luki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I had more trouble when trying to use T.38 with the newest app_rxfax so I abandoned it for now. And iaxmodem cannot do T.38 anyway... How did you set it up ? Which app_rxfax version did you try ? Does it offer T.38 termination (forwarding TDM faxes to T.

Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-07 Thread Luki
How did you set it up ? With OpenPBX aka Callweaver. Is part of source, no patching needed. Which app_rxfax version did you try ? http://callweaver.org/browse/callweaver/trunk/apps/app_rxfax.c Does it offer T.38 termination (forwarding TDM faxes to T.38 gateways) ? Yes, via T38Gateway(). B

Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-07 Thread Olivier
I knew Callweaver announced sometime ago, SpanDSP based T.38 termination and I wondered how usable it could be. Beside being beta, is there anything that keeps SpanDSP to be used with Asterisk ? Licence differences shouldn't bock that, from my point of view. Am I missing something ?

Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-08 Thread mail-lists
ax. The downside of rx_fax is that you need to compile it into asterisk. 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

Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-08 Thread mail-lists
The downside of rx_fax is that you need to compile it into asterisk. 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

RE: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-08 Thread Kevin Collins
lists Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 12:04 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax ax. > > The downside of rx_fax is that you need to compile it into asterisk. > > The downside of iaxmodem is that (to my knowle

RE: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-09 Thread Craig Guy
: Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:04 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax ax. > > The downside of rx_fax is that you need to compile it into asterisk. > > The downside of iaxmodem is that (to my knowledge) you c

Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax

2007-05-09 Thread Paradise Dove
s -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mail-lists Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 12:04 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] app_txfax, app_rxfax ax. > > The downside of rx_fax is that you n