[asterisk-users] RE: Bottom line on fax reception

Mon May 28 17:55:38 MST 2007

If you are a junk spam faxer then it should suit your needs.  

If you occasionally send faxes and if you do not receive one or the
other party does not receive one or it spits out junk but that is OK,
then it should fit your needs. 

If you are faxing contracts or other important documents that are worth
something, then go for a more reliable solution.

On a 3ghz HP DL320 with a gig of RAM, each fax took about 5% indicated
by top.  I would not want to go above ten simultaneous faxes so I setup
ten IAX Modems (50% in top).  Even at that rate, there were a lot of
failures.  I did not bother to figure out why because these were legal
contracts, in bulk, amounting to big dollars.

The variables are very simple for any of these kind of decisions.  Don't
think about savings, think about costs.

Costs of equipment
Costs of time (resources) implementing
Costs of maintenance 
Costs of losing data (faxes in this case) 
Costs of going back and doing it the right way if you find the above
costs are higher than another solution. 

Thanks,
Steve Totaro
http://www.asteriskhelpdesk.com
KB3OPB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jon Pounder
> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 4:54 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] RE: Bottom line on fax reception
> 
> Quoting Steve Totaro <stotaro at asteriskhelpdesk.com>:
> 
> > Please qualify your usage.  A couple faxes a day, a couple hundred,
a
> > couple thousand, or a couple hundred thousand?
> 
> 
> well what is your usage where it doesn't work ?
> 
> I would like to know where it does and doesn't work as well but so far
> various groups have conflicting opinions.
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > Are you running asterisk and hylafax on the same machine?  What is
your
> > TDM connectivity?
> >
> >
> >
> > Hylafax uses quite a lot of CPU juice.  Anyone ever scale up a quad
> > T1/E1 server for faxing using asterisk and hylafax?  Must be a heck
of a
> > server!
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Steve Totaro
> > http://www.asteriskhelpdesk.com
> >
<http://www.asteriskhelpdesk.com/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,37/
> >>
> > KB3OPB
> >
> >
> >   _____
> >
> > From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> > [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Greg
> > Kennedy
> > Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 4:02 PM
> > To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> > Subject: [asterisk-users] RE: Bottom line on fax reception
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I gave up on the rxfax business as it never worked for me. I use
> > iaxmodem and hylafax and it works perfectly, every single time i use
it.
> > inbound or outbound doesnt matter.
> > I have not read about anyone using iaxmodem and hylafax having any
> > issues. and its fairly easy to setup. Took me about 1 hour total to
get
> > everything installed and configured.
> >
> >
> >> Message: 3
> >> Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 08:20:22 -0700
> >> From: "shadowym" <shadowym at hotmail.com>
> >> Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Bottom line on fax reception
> >> To: "'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'"
> >> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> >> Message-ID: <BAY102-DAV63A72E6A5A730F28AC8E8DD280 at phx.gbl>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> >>
> >> Anybody??
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: shadowym [mailto:shadowym at hotmail.com]
> >> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 9:35 AM
> >> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> >> Subject: [asterisk-users] Bottom line on fax reception
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> So what is the bottom line? Does it work or not. I've heard stories
it
> >> works, it doesn't work, it kinda sorta works when it's not raining
out
> > side.
> >> Everything under the rainbow.
> >>
> >> What's the bottom line with recent updates on 1.2.x? Is it
production
> > ready
> >> for fax? By production ready I mean that it just works all the time
> > and
> >> doesn't need any babysitting. Do I have to worry about dropped
lines,
> >> sometimes not detecting incoming fax tone....yada yada.
> >>
> >> I know I don't have to use fax on Asterisk but I really want to for
> > various
> >> reasons. Mostly incoming but outgoing is a nice to have. Should I
use
> > an
> >> addon package and if so which one? Any help would be appreciated.
> >>
> >> Message: 6
> >> Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 11:38:01 -0400
> >> From: "Steve Totaro" <stotaro at asteriskhelpdesk.com>
> >> Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Bottom line on fax reception
> >> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
> >> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> >> Message-ID:
> >>
> >
<DFB93BD730105941BD1A782A1EE9E95C16466D at 1-0fa9e300af524.asteriskhelpdesk
> > .com>
> >>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
> >>
> >> Someone already answered this question. The answer is no, it does
not
> >> work by your definition of production ready.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Steve Totaro
> >> http://www.asteriskhelpdesk.com
> >> KB3OPB
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> Jon Pounder
> 
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