[cisco-nas] using AS5300/MICA to send out faxes?

[Gert Doering]

Hi Aaron,

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 08:36:32AM -0700, Aaron Leonard wrote:
> Outbound fax on MICA was broken after 2.7.4.0/2.9.2.0 due to
> CSCeb53414.  CSCeb53414 was fixed in portware 2.9.6.0; however 2.9.6.0
> was never posted (and it may be that it was never built; at any rate, I
> can't find it.)
> 
> Since MICA is end of life, a portware downgrade is the only option at
> this point.

Yep.  Thanks a lot for investigating and clarifying things (and putting
it on the list, so the archives will know about it :-) ).

Unfortunately, even with 2.7.4.0, outbound fax is not as good as with
the "classic" modems that we have (the same modems that fail at X.75
dial-in do very well at outbound fax), so I'm giving up on this specific
avenue.


Anyway - would you happen to know whether "outbound fax" is a fully
supported feature on 2800 routers with PVDM modems?  Since these are 
"the current way" to do modems on IOS routers (that are not AS5300s), 
it could be worth evaluating these...  the web pages are a bit vague,
but the FAQ *does* state 

 Q: is fax supported on the ... PVDM2 Module?
 A: It supports only sending of faxes, it cannot receive them

(It's a shame that "PVDM2 + NM-8B-S/T" seems to be an unsupported
combination - only HWIC-*CE1T1-PRI and VIC2-2BRI are listed, but 
sometimes one just has to do with nxBRI instead of a single PRI...)


What about outbound fax on the AS5300 with NextPort CSM6 modules?

thanks a lot :-)

gert

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