Hi List; What configuration needed to let my FXS send and receive FAX? Regards Bilal
On June 7, 2008 11:37:20 am bilal ghayyad wrote:> Hi List; > > What configuration needed to let my FXS send and > receive FAX? >Your probably going to need to give some more details about your setup before anybody can help you... theres really nothing special you need to configure for an FXS port to attach a fax machine to it... keep in mind that faxing over VoIP is extremely tricky at best, but if your entire call path is TDM then you shouldn;t have much of a problem. -- Matt Watson mattgwatson.ca
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 08:37:20AM -0700, bilal ghayyad wrote:> Hi List; > > What configuration needed to let my FXS send and > receive FAX?Technically nothing. A fax behaves just like a normal phone device. What you should be careful about is the path from the PSTN to that FXS port. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com +972-50-7952406 mailto:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com xorcom.com iax:guest at local.xorcom.com/tzafrir
While not on the FXS port itself other things to look for; 1) set the fax machine to disable Super G3 (33.3k), try to force it to use G3 (14.4k). 2) set the fax machine to Disable ECM (Error Correction Mode) 3) If PSTN is T1 check span for errors, etc. 4) Some protocols have fax-passthrough and modem-relay -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Matt Watson Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 1:00 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Fax on FXS On June 7, 2008 11:37:20 am bilal ghayyad wrote:> Hi List; > > What configuration needed to let my FXS send and > receive FAX? >Your probably going to need to give some more details about your setup before anybody can help you... theres really nothing special you need to configure for an FXS port to attach a fax machine to it... keep in mind that faxing over VoIP is extremely tricky at best, but if your entire call path is TDM then you shouldn;t have much of a problem. -- Matt Watson mattgwatson.ca _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ----------------------------------------- Disclaimer: This e-mail communication and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information and is for use by the designated addressee(s) named above only. If you are not the intended addressee, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any use or reproduction of this email or its contents is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you.
I've been thinking about something around these lines that I'd like feedback on. What I'd like to d,o if it works, is have a fax machine in St. Louis connected up to my asterisk box in Atlanta via Internet/SIP so that anytime the fax machine in St Louis sends a fax it actually goes out through the asterisk box in Atlanta. Something if I understand it correctly like : Fax->SIP(long distance)->Asterisk->FXO->Customer Fax. Would something like this work? Thanks for any insight, John Morey On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 11:37 AM, bilal ghayyad <bilmar_gh at yahoo.com> wrote:> Hi List; > > What configuration needed to let my FXS send and > receive FAX? > > Regards > Bilal > > > > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20080609/e1e91723/attachment.htm
John Morey wrote:> actually goes out through the asterisk box in Atlanta. Something if I > understand it correctly like : Fax->SIP(long > distance)->Asterisk->FXO->Customer Fax. Would something like this work? >Not reliably, if you have a VPN connection to the remote site (We do with our remote sites), I have HylaFAX+ running on each site. And, I submit remote fax jobs and let the remote HylaFAX+ do the fax sending. It works quite nicely. All of our internal faxing are handled this way. Cuts down on the long distance charges. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."