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Attrafax fully tested

Written by Administrator

Saturday, 18 September 2010 00:00

Hi Guys,

During last month we have fixed some bugs related with the Fixed point implementation of Attrafax in Switchfin.
Switchfin and the Fixed point Attrafax now passes all FAX tests as defined below:

In order to formalize the tests let's follow the original notation of attrafax-0.9/doc/t38-tests
with some Switchfin interpretation.

So let define our setup like this

fax <-> dahdi <-> IP02/IP08 <-> sip <-> Zoiper

user 6000 -> DAHDI/1 and fax connected to it, this is reffered to PSTN below
user 6001 -> sip account for Zoiper soft phone

Required configuration:

/etc/asterisk/chan_dahdi.conf

faxdetect = both

sip.conf - In both the global section and the device sections for the
t38-capable devices add

t38pt_udptl = yes

Dialplan:

fax = 6000
zoiper = 6001

[default]
; tdm part =======================
; fax gw
exten => ${fax},1,Dial(DAHDI/1)

; standalone app
exten => 6701,1,RxFax_T30(/tmp/t30rx,6701)

; sip part ========================
; fax gw
exten => {zoiper},1,Dial({zoiper})

; standalone app
exten => 6702,1,RxFax_T38(/tmp/t38rx,6702)

Tests:

1) Testing the gateway. The test is done in both directions.

SIP-receiving, PSTN-transmitting gateway

test G01: Send one page from fax to zoiper (extension 6001) and see if it's received ok.

test G02: Send 10 pages from fax to zoiper (extension 6001) and see if it's received ok.

PSTN-receiving, SIP-transmitting gateway

test G11: Send one page from zoiper to fax (extension 6000) and see if it's received ok.

test G12: Send 10 pages from zoiper to fax (extension 6000) and see if it's received ok.

2) Testing the T30 (PSTN) applications:

Receiving a fax from the PSTN

test G21: Send one page from fax to file (extensions 6701), see the received file.
test G22: Send 10 pages from fax to file (extensions 6701), see the received files.

Sending a fax to the PSTN:

test G23: sending a tiff file to the fax. We do this test using call file like this

Channel: DAHDI/1
MaxRetries: 0
RetryTime: 10
WaitTime: 30
Application: TXFAX_T30
Data: /tmp/onepage.tiff|123456

3) Testing the T38 (SIP) applications:

Receiving a fax from Zoiper

test G31: Send one page from Zoiper to extensions 6702, see the received file.

test G32: Send 10 pages from Zoiper to extensions 6702, see the received files.

Sending over SIP, normal apps:

Test G35: sending a tiff file to Zoiper. We do this test using call file like this

Channel: SIP/6001
MaxRetries: 0
RetryTime: 10
WaitTime: 30
Application: TXFAX_T38
Data: /tmp/onepage.tiff|123456

Source Code:

To enable Attrafax in Switchfin just enable it in menuconfig.

For people willing to use it on other platforms fixed point Attrafax patch can be found in our SVN at
https://switchfin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/switchfin/switchfin/trunk/package/attrafax/attrafax.patch
The Patch should be applied against Atrafax-0.9.

We are using Asterisk 1.4.32 and to get the Attrafax gateway functionality working you need to apply the patch at
https://switchfin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/switchfin/switchfin/trunk/package/asterisk/asterisk-attrafax.patch