[CentOS] CentOS, ISDN and Fax ...

Sun Mar 2 18:38:40 UTC 2008
Fred Kienker <fred at at4b.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Campbell [mailto:centos at celestial.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 12:35 PM
> To: centos at 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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