[Asterisk-Users] Digium E1/T1 card with mgetty+sendfax

[Peter Svensson]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Edwin Groothuis wrote:

> For the project I've used the Eicon DIVA card. It has 8 BRI ports,
> and for about 25% of the time there are 7 or 8 in use. So we want
> to replace it with an E1 card. Only issue is, replace it with what?
> 
> The idea we have been playing with was to get a Digium E1 card (we
> already have bought lot of Quad E1 cards :-) and then just put it
> back to back against Asterisk server. And instead of letting
> mgetty+sendfax talk to /dev/ttyI[0-7], we use /dev/zap/[0-30].

sendfax (and mgetty) requires a modem interface. The zaptel interfaces are 
raw tdm interfaces. SpanDSP could be made to provide a smartmodem 
interface but no such code exists yet (as far as I know).

Peter