[asterisk-gui] Fax on Asterisk GUI

Trevor Benson tbenson at a-1networks.com
Fri Apr 17 10:04:34 CDT 2009


Sounds more like a sip registration issue if inbound outbound doesnt  
work.  Should probably start a new thread since this isnt related to  
the Fax for Asterisk, but I would suggest checking 'sip show peers'  
and seeing if it registered, then double check your PAP2 config  
settings.


Trevor Benson
A1 Networks
(707)570-2021 x201
tbenson at a-1networks.com



On Apr 17, 2009, at 7:51 AM, Brent Vrieze wrote:

> We have done this using a Linksys PAP2 and it worked fine for weeks  
> and
> now it does not.
>
> Here is what we have
>
> DID---Asterisk----PAP2----FAX
>
> We changed nothing on our Asterisk Server Nothing in the PAP2 and
> nothing on the Fax but it just stopped working, incoming and outgoing.
>
> Any ideas as to what could be going wrong?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob Crandell wrote:
>> Good.  That is what I was hoping for.  Now if only I could get a few
>> more minutes together to get this thing on line.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Bob
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 21:56 -0700, Trevor Benson wrote:
>>> We have done this with various methods just routing the DID through
>>> asterisk.  Just transfer down one of your FXS ports, or we even have
>>> a few clients use SIP gateway devices and connect the fax to that,
>>> and then we direct the call to the sip device via its extension, and
>>> the fax answers and receives.  All without spandsp/FFA installed  
>>> at all.
>>>
>>>
>>> Trevor Benson
>>> A1 Networks
>>> (707)570-2021 x201
>>> tbenson at a-1networks.com <mailto:tbenson at a-1networks.com>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 14, 2009, at 8:47 AM, Ryan Brindley wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm not a fax expert, but I imagine if you have certain DIDs for
>>>> faxing that Asterisk can route those to the fax server. I think  
>>>> I've
>>>> heard of that before...again...I've never personally done an
>>>> installation requiring this, only heard of it. You can ask
>>>> in asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
>>>> <mailto:asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>, or IRC, or anything for a
>>>> better answer, if no one else chimes in. :-)
>>>>
>>>> --                 
>>>> Ryan Brindley
>>>> Digium, Inc. | Software Developer
>>>> 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA
>>>> main: +1 256-428-6000   fax: +1 256-864-0464
>>>> Check us out at: http://digium.com & http://asterisk.org
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Bob Crandell" <bob at assuredcomp.com <mailto:bob at assuredcomp.com 
>>>> >>
>>>> To: "Ryan Brindley" <rbrindley at digium.com <mailto:rbrindley at digium.com 
>>>> >>
>>>> Cc: "Asterisk GUI project discussion" <asterisk- 
>>>> gui at lists.digium.com
>>>> <mailto:asterisk-gui at lists.digium.com>>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:40:01 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada  
>>>> Central
>>>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-gui] Fax on Asterisk GUI
>>>>
>>>> Ryan,
>>>>
>>>> I'm not interested in Asterisk handling the faxes just having it
>>>> route an incoming fax to our fax server.  Will it do that without  
>>>> FFA?
>>>>
>>>> Sounds like FFA is going to turn Asterisk into a pretty sweet
>>>> product and with your GUI on top of it ... wow.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Bob
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 09:06 -0500, Ryan Brindley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    Bob,
>>>>    Digium just released Fax For Asterisk
>>>>    (FFA, http://www.digium.com/en/products/software/faxforasterisk.php)
>>>>    <http://www.digium.com/en/products/software/faxforasterisk.php%29 
>>>> >.
>>>>    Rajesh was wondering when a GUI page would be committed, so that
>>>>    users could use the new FFA on the GUI.
>>>>
>>>>    --
>>>>    Ryan Brindley
>>>>    Digium, Inc. | Software Developer
>>>>    445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA
>>>>    main: +1 256-428-6000   fax: +1 256-864-0464
>>>>    Check us out at: http://digium.com & http://asterisk.org
>>>>
>>>>    ----- Original Message -----
>>>>    From: "Bob Crandell" <bob at assuredcomp.com
>>>>    <mailto:bob at assuredcomp.com>>
>>>>    To: "Asterisk GUI project discussion"
>>>>    <asterisk-gui at lists.digium.com
>>>>    <mailto:asterisk-gui at lists.digium.com>>
>>>>    Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 8:37:59 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada
>>>>    Central
>>>>    Subject: Re: [asterisk-gui] Fax on Asterisk GUI
>>>>
>>>>    Speaking of faxes.  We have a fax server.  Will Asterisk
>>>>    recognize an incoming fax and route it there or is this what you
>>>>    guys have been talking about?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 08:06 -0500, Ryan Brindley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>        Rajesh,
>>>>        Unfortunately, its still in the discussion stage. I'll give
>>>>        an update when I hear anything.
>>>>
>>>>        Following Neil Stone's comment, if you are interested in
>>>>        hearing about a fax update, please start a new thread and
>>>>        don't reply to an unrelated thread. Its quite annoying to
>>>>        readers when that happens, and eventually many loose their
>>>>        willingness to help. So, if you were unaware, consider this
>>>>        a quick 101 of mailing lists. If you were aware, consider
>>>>        this a warning that if you want to be taken seriously,
>>>>        you'll have to be respectful.
>>>>
>>>>        --
>>>>        Ryan Brindley
>>>>        Digium, Inc. | Software Developer
>>>>        445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA
>>>>
>>>>        main: +1 256-428-6000   fax: +1 256-864-0464
>>>>        Check us out at: http://digium.com & http://asterisk.org
>>>>
>>>>        ----- Original Message -----
>>>>        From: "Rajesh Kumar ( Alshaya Group International )"
>>>>        <raj at alshaya-group.com <mailto:raj at alshaya-group.com>>
>>>>        To: "asterisk-gui at lists.digium.com
>>>>        <mailto:asterisk-gui at lists.digium.com>"
>>>>        <asterisk-gui at lists.digium.com
>>>>        <mailto:asterisk-gui at lists.digium.com>>
>>>>        Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 5:14:38 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada
>>>>        Central
>>>>        Subject: Re: [asterisk-gui] Queue Agent Support Needs Major
>>>>        Rewrite
>>>>
>>>>        Hey any update on fax as Digium as released fax application
>>>>        hope to see it soon on gui
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        Regards,
>>>>
>>>>        Rajesh Kumar
>>>>        Alshaya Group International
>>>>        raj at alshaya-group.com <mailto:raj at alshaya-group.com>
>>>>        Tel (+965 2298-0555 Ext 307)
>>>>        Mobile (+965 9722-4083)
>>>>
>>>>        ----- Original Message -----
>>>>        From: asterisk-gui-bounces at lists.digium.com
>>>>        <mailto:asterisk-gui-bounces at lists.digium.com> <asterisk-gui-bounces at lists.digium.com
>>>>        <mailto:asterisk-gui-bounces at lists.digium.com>>
>>>>        To: Asterisk GUI project discussion
>>>>        <asterisk-gui at lists.digium.com
>>>>        <mailto:asterisk-gui at lists.digium.com>>
>>>>        Sent: Mon Apr 13 22:32:59 2009
>>>>        Subject: Re: [asterisk-gui] Queue Agent Support Needs Major
>>>>        Rewrite
>>>>
>>>>        George,
>>>>        You are definitely right, and both are known issues.
>>>>
>>>>        When I first got onto the GUI dev team and looked at the
>>>>        queues stuff, the 'secret' sharing was one of the first red
>>>>        flags I saw. Its since been proposed that an 'agentsecret'
>>>>        variable be in users.conf for the very reason. And while I
>>>>        can't update on the status of that feature, I can at least
>>>>        report that its acknowledged.
>>>>
>>>>        As for the 'an indication that the left hand doesn't know
>>>>        about the right...', besides that that comment is a bit
>>>>        unnecessary; its also just not true. If you look
>>>>        athttp://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=14459, you'll see that
>>>>        we were aware of this at least in Feb (although I'd claim
>>>>        more like Nov of 08), and that its a blocker for the next
>>>>        release of the open source GUI. The reasoning for the delay
>>>>        in development can simply be explained by listing my
>>>>        schedule. Good news is that its next on the list. :-)
>>>>
>>>>        When I begin development on AddQueueMember (replacing
>>>>        AgentCallBackLogin), I'll report back to this thread on the
>>>>        svn branch if you're interested in helping test.
>>>>
>>>>        --
>>>>        Ryan Brindley
>>>>        Digium, Inc. | Software Developer
>>>>        445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA
>>>>        main: +1 256-428-6000   fax: +1 256-864-0464
>>>>        Check us out at: http://digium.com & http://asterisk.org
>>>>
>>>>        ----- Original Message -----
>>>>        From: "George Pajari" <George.Pajari at netvoice.ca
>>>>        <mailto:George.Pajari at netvoice.ca>>
>>>>        To: asterisk-gui at lists.digium.com
>>>>        <mailto:asterisk-gui at lists.digium.com>
>>>>        Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 2:04:56 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada
>>>>        Central
>>>>        Subject: [asterisk-gui] Queue Agent Support Needs Major  
>>>> Rewrite
>>>>
>>>>        Just started to try to use the queue agent and the current
>>>>        implementation of the Asterisk GUI essentially renders these
>>>>        features
>>>>        unusable for us.
>>>>
>>>>        The major problem is that the agent login password,
>>>>        incredibly, is the
>>>>        same as the SIP secret. Obviously this needs to be changed
>>>>        so that the
>>>>        agent passwords are
>>>>        separate and independent of any other authentication
>>>>        information (for
>>>>        SIP or whatever). (I won't comment on the fact that this
>>>>        little gem
>>>>        appears not to be documented anywhere.)
>>>>
>>>>        A less important issue but an indication that the left hand
>>>>        doesn't know
>>>>        about the right is the fact that AgentCallbackLogin is
>>>>        deprecated in 1.4
>>>>        (and is removed in 1.6) yet is still being used in
>>>>        AsteriskGUI 2.
>>>>
>>>>        I'll hand code some stuff in the extensions.conf so we can
>>>>        use queues
>>>>        but either the queue support in Asterisk GUI needs to be
>>>>        fixed or
>>>>        removed. To have those tabs suggesting that queues can be
>>>>        used through
>>>>        the GUI is just cruel temptation.
>>>>
>>>>        --
>>>>        George Pajari (dCAP), netVOICE communications 604 484
>>>>        VOIP(8647) x102
>>>>          www.netvoice.ca
>>>>        <http://www.netvoice.ca>  www.ip-centrex.ca
>>>>        <http://www.ip-centrex.ca>  www.ip-pbx.ca
>>>>        <http://www.ip-pbx.ca>  www.vpas.ca <http://www.vpas.ca>
>>>>            www.digium.ca <http://www.digium.ca> www.grandstream.ca
>>>>        <http://www.grandstream.ca> www.sipura.ca
>>>>        <http://www.sipura.ca> www.snom.ca <http://www.snom.ca>
>>>>        Open Source VoIP/Telephony Specialists  1 877 NET VOIP (638
>>>>        8647 x102)
>>>>
>>>>
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