[asterisk-users] Fax Server for Asterisk

[Danny Dias]

Hi Tim,

Unfortunately i can't reproduce the scenario because it was a long time
ago. But it would be nice to hear from you, what things can be verified
within fax and Asterisk? Any TIP on wireshark monitoring?
El 31/05/2012 03:08, "Tim Nelson" <tnelson at rockbochs.com> escribió:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > I've used Asterisk 1.4.22 with hylafax and iaxmodem and it wasn't
> > reliable at all; sometimes the fax reach the destination, sometimes
> > not, and even worse, asterisk got froozen...(here using analog lines
> > over Sangoma B600 and Digium TDM400P, same behavior with both.
> > Other history with same asterisk version but E1 lines, it was
> > PERFECT. That's why i ask for analog lines, since not all customers
> > has E1.
> > Any recommendation/restriction when using hylafax + Asterisk +
> > iaxmodem ?
> > BR
>
> If Asterisk was freezing up, that would seem to indicate a problem with
> Asterisk, not the Hylafax/IAXmodem components. Of course, details would be
> needed to determine why that was the case.
>
> Regardless, without lockups of Asterisk, reliability of fax is very
> dependent on timing and audio quality. Again, details would be needed to
> further investigate why you had high failure metrics(specifically your fax
> session logs from /var/spool/hylafax/log).
>
> In general, Hylafax+[1] and IAXmodem is the most rock solid stable fax
> solution available, as long as you can get past the initial learning curve.
> There is a reason why IAXmodem has not had a release in forever as the
> 1.2.0 release is rock solid stable. Hylafax+ continues to be developed with
> regular releases, the feature set and functionality are second to none with
> hooks for almost any imaginable configuration, and the support via the
> mailing lists or available contractors can't be beat.
>
> </soapbox>
>
> If you have specifics about your problems with Hylafax and IAXmodem, I'd
> love to hear about them to help diagnose, if it is postmortem.
>
> --Tim
>
> [1] There *IS* a difference between "Hylafax" (hylafax.org) and
> "Hylafax+" (hylafax.sourceforge.net). Please see here:
> http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/about.php
>
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