Re: [hylafax-users] Inbound lines limits - suggestions

[Colin Anderson <ColinA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When it just Has To Work:

http://www.digi.com/pdf/prd_msc_acceleportcx.pdf <---Not cheap but works
perfect 100% of the time, plug & play. 

This will work fine, too but will probably need tinkering (although I have
had very good luck with them)

http://www.siig.com/product.asp?catid=73&pid=198

I have used multiples of these in a box and installation was no problem,
provided you free up IRQ's by disabling onboard crap. Only drawback is that
port density per card is low. 

I did an install with a couple of those SIIG cards and a 16 port USR Total
Control rackmount I got on Ebay for $60. (not Hylafax, though) and was able
to do a 16 port faxserver with all hardware for under a grand. Works
perfect. Only catch was finding DIP switch settings for the Total Control
since it's quite obscure these days. 

If you are in a situation with > 24 analog lines, it would be more practical
to consolidate them all into a PRI and use Asterisk + HylaFAX + (kick-ass)
IAXmodem. You have more control (i.e. you can create / destroy virtual
modems at will, create / destroy DID's at will, without being onsite, no
truck roll) and less to go wrong (since there's no multiport serial card, no
physical modems, just a PRI line from the telco). Oh yeah, it will be
cheaper too. 


-----Original Message-----
From: APS [mailto:dev.malst@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 9:02 AM
To: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] Inbound lines limits - suggestions


Thanks guys,

this makes me more relaxed.
There's some multiserial card o multimodem card that you are used to 
suggest for easy installation and configuration on linux, low cost 
and good performance?
Thanks again.

At 16.39 28/11/2006, Lee Howard wrote:
>APS wrote:
>
>>I would like to know if hylafax has a limit on inbound lines that 
>>can be managed.
>>I've read in faq "96 channels per server is routinely achieved", so 
>>I can connect up to 96 modems/lines? (according to hardware limits).
>>There's some issue about memory/resources problems using a large 
>>(more than 10) number of modems or a PCI multichannel board?
>
>
>HylaFAX has no realistic limit on the number of modems that can be 
>handled.  (I'm sure that there are some memory structures that have 
>a technical limit to how big the stored value can become - but it's 
>nowhere near a place where you would realistically run into it, even 
>with a "big" setup.)
>
>I've set up a system with 256 modems and had 128 of them faxing in 
>to the other 128... and it was not an issue.
>
>Lee.


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