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

[Jon Pounder]

Quoting Steve Totaro <stotaro at asteriskhelpdesk.com>:

> 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.

anyone have a comparison with a multicpu machine with the same or  
lower clock rate ?




>
> 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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