Hey guys,
is anyone of you using CentOS (4/5) for an ISDN fax gateway? I just had someone over here at the CentOS booth who wanted to know if there's a possibility to integrate the AVM CAPI into CentOS and then use the machine as a fax gateway with 2, 3 or 4 S0 buses.
Is that possible?
Cheers,
Ralph
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Hey guys,
is anyone of you using CentOS (4/5) for an ISDN fax gateway? I just had someone over here at the CentOS booth who wanted to know if there's a possibility to integrate the AVM CAPI into CentOS and then use the machine as a fax gateway with 2, 3 or 4 S0 buses.
Is that possible?
Probably. It's been quite a while since I did any new ISDN connections, and have never done it with internal cards, only with device line Annex 8000s via PRIs, and smaller Ascend Pipelines and Max 1600s (I have a couple of Max 1600s and a variety of Pipelines here we're not using if anybody is interested). I looked at a variety of internal ISDN cards with Linux about 10 years ago, but preferred to stick with external devices.
We use HylaFAX for all our incoming and outgoing fax, with Multitech external modems. I've always avoided any internal modems as it's kinda hard to reset a wedged internal modem without rebooting the machine.
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-----Original Message----- From: Bill Campbell [mailto:centos@celestial.com] Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 12:35 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS, ISDN and Fax ...
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Hey guys,
is anyone of you using CentOS (4/5) for an ISDN fax gateway?
I just had
someone over here at the CentOS booth who wanted to know if
there's a
possibility to integrate the AVM CAPI into CentOS and then use the machine as a fax gateway with 2, 3 or 4 S0 buses.
Is that possible?
Probably. It's been quite a while since I did any new ISDN connections, and have never done it with internal cards, only with device line Annex 8000s via PRIs, and smaller Ascend Pipelines and Max 1600s (I have a couple of Max 1600s and a variety of Pipelines here we're not using if anybody is interested). I looked at a variety of internal ISDN cards with Linux about 10 years ago, but preferred to stick with external devices.
We use HylaFAX for all our incoming and outgoing fax, with Multitech external modems. I've always avoided any internal modems as it's kinda hard to reset a wedged internal modem without rebooting the machine.
Bill
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What Multitech external modem(s) do you recommend using with HylaFax?
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On Sun, Mar 02, 2008, Fred Kienker wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Bill Campbell [mailto:centos@celestial.com]
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We use HylaFAX for all our incoming and outgoing fax, with Multitech external modems. I've always avoided any internal modems as it's kinda hard to reset a wedged internal modem without rebooting the machine.
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What Multitech external modem(s) do you recommend using with HylaFax?
We're currently using the MT5634ZBA externals which work very well. They do not support the fancier caller-id features that some of the more expensive Multitechs do so HylaFAX cannot route incoming faxes based on the calling number. I put that in the nice-to-have category, and isn't critical to our operations.
I have also used their MT2834ZDX, but had some flow control problems which caused us to move to the MT5634ZBA.
I have done extensive testing on modems from many manufacturers, and the only ones I've found that have been really reliable are the Multitechs and Telebits (I still have three Worldblazers and a couple of Trailblazers sitting on the shelf from our old dialup uucp days).
Our setup here has a channel bank with incoming voice and data on a single T1 so we are digital to that point, with the Multitechs plugged into POTS ports off of an RJ-21 connector to a patch panel.
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