asterisk users - Feb 2008 - About faxes recived through a PRI and passed to a fax machine connected to a FXS port

Hi, all

I want to configure a few FXS ports in an Antribank-16 to be able to
receive faxes sent throught a PRI:


E1 ==>Zap * ==>FXS * ==>Fax machine

My asterisk box has a Digium TE120P (for the PRI).

Versions are *=> 1.4.17 |  Zaptel=>1.4.8  | libpri=>1.4.5

The Astribank is not configured yet, because I am a little bit
confused about how to do it.

Let's say I configure the FXS ports in the Astribank as channels 41 &
42 (only 2 for the moment).

I dedicated DIDs 111111 & 222222 for internal faxes.

Can I just set the dial plan for : (not actual coonfig)

exten=> 111111,1,Dial(Zap/41)
exten=> 222222,1,Dial(Zap/42)

Do I need any other piece of software?

I know 1.6-beta is capable of managing faxes properly, but I won't
upgrade my * if any other option is available.

Thank you.

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Andres Jimenez wrote:
> exten=> 111111,1,Dial(Zap/41)
> exten=> 222222,1,Dial(Zap/42)
>   

That's what I do with my Adit channel bank.

Doug

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You do not have to do anything else.  When Asterisk detects a fax tone
it will disable echo cancellation on those channels so the fax can go
through.  Just make sure that the Astribank is the sync source for
timing and you should be able to send and receive faxes.

	In your dialplan you should always make sure you have a command that
follows the dial command (in case the fax is already busy or does not
answer).

On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 17:25 +0000, Andres Jimenez wrote:
> Hi, all
> 
> I want to configure a few FXS ports in an Antribank-16 to be able to
> receive faxes sent throught a PRI:
> 
> 
> E1 ==>Zap * ==>FXS * ==>Fax machine
> 
> My asterisk box has a Digium TE120P (for the PRI).
> 
> Versions are *=> 1.4.17 |  Zaptel=>1.4.8  | libpri=>1.4.5
> 
> The Astribank is not configured yet, because I am a little bit
> confused about how to do it.
> 
> Let's say I configure the FXS ports in the Astribank as channels 41
&
> 42 (only 2 for the moment).
> 
> I dedicated DIDs 111111 & 222222 for internal faxes.
> 
> Can I just set the dial plan for : (not actual coonfig)
> 
> exten=> 111111,1,Dial(Zap/41)
> exten=> 222222,1,Dial(Zap/42)
> 
> Do I need any other piece of software?
> 
> I know 1.6-beta is capable of managing faxes properly, but I won't
> upgrade my * if any other option is available.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 05:25:08PM +0000, Andres Jimenez
wrote:
> Hi, all
> 
> I want to configure a few FXS ports in an Antribank-16 to be able to
> receive faxes sent throught a PRI:
> 
> 
> E1 ==>Zap * ==>FXS * ==>Fax machine
> 
> My asterisk box has a Digium TE120P (for the PRI).
> 
> Versions are *=> 1.4.17 |  Zaptel=>1.4.8  | libpri=>1.4.5
> 
> The Astribank is not configured yet, because I am a little bit
> confused about how to do it.
> 
> Let's say I configure the FXS ports in the Astribank as channels 41
&
> 42 (only 2 for the moment).
Hmmm... One full E1 span will get you channels 1-31 (even if you use
only up to channel 24, the span will register 31 channels). So the
FXS ports of the Astribank will occupy ports 32-39 and 46-53 (40-45 are
the I/O ports).

But then again, normally you just use zapconf / genzaptelconf and get a
working configuration.

So I suspect you got the channel numbers wrong there.
> 
> I dedicated DIDs 111111 & 222222 for internal faxes.
> 
> Can I just set the dial plan for : (not actual coonfig)
> 
> exten=> 111111,1,Dial(Zap/41)
> exten=> 222222,1,Dial(Zap/42)
Basically yes, except the Zaptel channel numbers.

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