[Asterisk-Users] TxFax -> RxFax on same machine hangs

[Steve Underwood]

Bartek Kania wrote:

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> On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Steve Underwood wrote:
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>> Roger Schreiter wrote:
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>>> How can I enable asterisk to fax to itsself?
>>> Well, it won't be the normal operation, but when allowing clients
>>> to fax, it can happen by chance, that someone faxes to another
>>> user on the same machine without knowing it.
>>> Thanks for any hints!
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>> If the call really dialed out through a PSTN port and back in it
>> should work.  It is was a pure internal connection between 2
>> processes it will not. The timing for these programs comes from the
>> received data. No data, no work.
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>
> I can confirm that this problem appears on a call through the PSTN.
> My setup is:
> TxFax -> Asterisk -> E1 -> Asterisk (same box) ->RxFax
>
> Asterisk version 1.0.9 and spandsp version 0.0.2pre18 on debian woody 
> (3.0).
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> I sent you an email about it with some debug information a week or so 
> ago.
> If you need it again, or need some other info I'll be happy to provide 
> it.

Did you put txfax in caller mode?

Steve