Re: [hylafax-users] Using Hylafax and Asterisk at the same time?

["Jian Hong GUAN" <jhguan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
If Asterisk server and Hylafax server are installed on the same machine, or 
not on the same machine, Can you give me some examples of configuration file 
for your methods ?

> If you have an incoming T1/E1 line:
>    telco --> T1/E1 --> TE405P/TE410P --> Asterisk --> TE405P/TE410P 
> (another port)  --> T1/E1 fax modem --> HylaFAX
>    or:
>   telco --> T1/E1 --> TE405P/TE410P --> Asterisk --> TE405P/TE410P 
> (another port)  --> channel bank --> analog fax modem --> HylaFAX

Thanks in advance,
Guan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee Howard" <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Jian Hong GUAN" <jhguan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] Using Hylafax and Asterisk at the same time?


> Jian Hong GUAN wrote:
>
> > I would like to make the fax by using Hylafax and Asterisk at the same 
> > time. Hylafax - faxsend stores the fax file in its spool without sending 
> > it, and then an application of the type ftp sends this file to the spool 
> > Asterisk, at the end Asterisk - txfax sends this fax file...
>
> You're giving up a lot by using txfax/rxfax instead of HylaFAX for the 
> actual fax communication.
>
> Yes, there are ways to use HylaFAX faxq and write your own faxsend that 
> will drop .call files into txfax's attention, and I think that there are 
> things on Sourceforge to help you do that.  However, I could never bring 
> myself to do this.  The sacrifice would have been too great.
>
> Right now Asterisk does not have very good fax support.  So for the most 
> part you will not want to pass fax through an Asterisk PBX.  (Like, have a 
> separate phone line dedicated for fax.)  That said, you can get reliable 
> performance by simply using the Asterisk PBX as a T1 PRI "bridge"... 
> meaning you bring your T1 into your multi-port T1 card on your Asterisk 
> server, and then you send all fax calls back out through a different port 
> which terminates on a T1 faxmodem in your HylaFAX server or on a T1 
> channel bank that is connected to analog faxmodems.
>
> However, I can certainly understand that if you don't use fax very often, 
> don't want to use an on-line fax service, don't want to pay for a 
> dedicated fax line, and aren't using T1 lines that the options above 
> aren't really options at all.  So for that purpose (and *still* not 
> wanting to use txfax/rxfax) I've created IAXmodem.  See: 
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/iaxmodem  Realize that the first release 
> on this was just a week ago, and so I wouldn't say that IAXmodem is ready 
> for heavy production use.  However, if you're interested in testing, 
> playing around, or maybe just deal with a random fax once in a while... 
> well, then maybe IAXmodem will be good to you for now.
>
> Lee.


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