[asterisk-users] IAX2 and Faxing

[Lee Howard]

Davis Sylvester III wrote:

> Can someone tell me how to get faxing to work with an IAX2 remote client?


Wish upon a falling star, throw a penny into a fountain, find a 
four-leaf clover, and pat your head and rub your stomach all at the same 
time.  :-)

http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/docs/fax-over-voip.pdf

For the most part it's not going to happen, at least reliably.

> I have two customers both are connected via Digium's ATA's S101I both 
> can place and receive calls without any problems.  However when they 
> connect there line to a fax machine it never connects to the remote 
> fax machine.  They place a normal POTS line and all faxes fine. 


Read the PDF doc, and maybe you'll understand why voice calls are fine 
but not fax... why POTS faxing is fine but not over VoIP.

Lee.