[Asterisk-Users] RE: Fax, txfax -bizarre thing

[Colin Anderson]

> Of course that's not a problem to use hylafax, but I just want to have it
on one machine (I'm afraid that Asterisk and hylafax > won't run on the same
machine :( )

[Colin Anderson] I am experimenting with IAXmodem to Hylafax running on an
Asterisk server. It works. Last Thur, I had 98 virtual modems recognized and
running under Hylafax. So far, I can send and recieve faxes reasonably well
but there's some configuration issues I have to get out of the way before I
would beta it on my users. I expect that Hylafax to a couple of plain old
USR modems running on /ttys0 and /ttys1 would work fine enough even if
Asterisk was on the box. Even though the postscript conversion is done on
the server that can be controlled with -nice. After that all that Hylafax
has to do is service the modems and the clients. This seems to be pretty low
overhead - I think the client protocol is FTP on a nonstandard port, and
servicing a couple of modems at 9600 can't be too taxing. Hell, 25 modems
shouldn't be taxing, on a modern machine.
 
BTW I have used, installed, admin'd etc about a dozen big Windows faxing
solutions (basically all of the big players) and I've never used Hylafax
before, and I was really impressed. It's better than 80% of the Windows
product offerings, IMO. 

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