[asterisk-users] Fax for Asterisk quick question

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Miguel Molina wrote:

> Counting that everything works well on the IP portion of the 
> communication, you might have something, but the "store and forward" 
> process that has to be made twice to emulate a T.38 gateway on both 
> asterisks would make it a very slow process to send a single fax, having 
> that faxing is traditionally slow. So, it's pretty much a little more 
> elaborate answer of "unlikely to be pleasant".  A direct T.38 gateway 
> for asterisk would be awesome in any case of use.

This is all correct. At this time, Asterisk 1.6.x (and thus Fax For
Asterisk) don't offer a gateway mode, only sending and receiving of
FAXes from TIFF files on the Asterisk system itself.

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