[Asterisk-Users] fax

[Altus Syman]

ATA?
Is that a dev that I can plug my rj11 plug in,and it will convert it to 
sip...
I use the handytone 486
My big question is
How Do i differ between a fax signal and plain call
It is the openline 4 card

el Flynn wrote:

> Altus Syman wrote:
>
>> Good day all
>> I a bit stuck!!
>> We have a asterisk server,voicetronix card and 4 lines.We also have a 
>> hp office jet,printer ,scanner, FAX!!
>> How Do I configure it to send,and receive a fax
>> Please Help
>>
>
> Which Voicetronix card do you have? If it's the OpenLine4 card, then 
> it's all FXO, so you'll have to connect your fax machine to an ATA 
> (such as a Sipura), and configure sip.conf and extensions.conf properly.
>
> If I'm not mistaken the most important part is getting the codec right 
> in sip.conf -- you can't send fax using the gsm codec, try u-law or 
> a-law. so something along the lines of:
>
> sip.conf
> ========
> [SIPURA]
> disallow=all
> allow=ulaw
> allow=alaw
> context=internal-fax
> :
> :
>
> extensions.conf
> ===============
> [internal-fax]
> exten => _8.,Dial(vpb/1/${EXTEN:1},25)
> :
> :
>
> might work. you might have to fudge around with the timeout on the 
> dialstring to make sure the fax tones get picked up correctly.
>
> I could get fax to work over an IAX trunk between two * servers, fax 
> machine on one end connected to a TDM400P. fax went over IAX to second 
> * server, and the second box was configured to outdial to the 
> receiving fax number. worked like a charm.
>
> Flynn
>
>
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