Just curious, does H.323 fare any better? I was about to try a scenario
using a Cisco 2600 w/analog DID card to feed inbound voice and faxes
into asterisk->hylafax, but sounds like it might be doomed from the start.
Thanks,
Brian
Lee Howard wrote:
> Okay. And just so we're all clear on this - it really wouldn't have
> mattered if it had been Asterisk or Nortel or Avaya or whatever, it
> was the SIP-over-uncontrolled-network that doomed this arrangement for
> most faxing... it wasn't so much Asterisk's fault. VoIP is often fine
> for voice - but not for fax or data.
>
> Lee.
>
>
> Michael Hallager wrote:
>
>> It was over SIP.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Plenty of people use Asterisk PBXes and send fax through them. It all
>>> has to do with the setup. If by "fibre link with about 2ms latency and
>>> plenty of bandwidth" you mean that you were trying to fax over SIP or
>>> IAX or some other VoIP connection, then I don't think that you're
>>> making
>>> any new revelations. However, if you have PSTN connections running
>>> into
>>> your Asterisk PBX, and if you run IAXmodem over the loopback interface
>>> to Asterisk and HylaFAX on the same box, then many people have found
>>> that to be reliable.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Michael Hallager
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