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T38 Modem

About​

If you want to explore Hylafax with FreeSWITCH, you will need T38modem as a conduit between them.

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Download​

You can get the latest version Here

Installation​

Dependencies OPAL and PTLIB libraries are included in the download page in one package opal-24174.tgz. Note: Use only this package for OPAL and PTLIB as the more recent versions will not work with version 2.0.0 of T38modem.

Building T.38 Modem

    tar xvzf opal-24174.tgz
    cd ptlib
    ./configure
    make all
    make install
    cd ../opal
    ./configure
    make all
    make install
    cd ..
    tar xvzf t38modem-2.0.0.tgz
    cdt38modem-2.0.0
    export PTLIBDIR=../ptlib
    export OPALDIR=../opal
    make USE_OPAL=1 opt

Dialplans​

Outbound dialplan:

Fax outbound

<extension name="faxout">
   <condition field="ani" expression="^t38modem.*$"/>
   <condition field="destination_number" expression="^9(\d{8,15})$">
      <action application="set" data="absolute_codec_string=PCMU"/>
      <action application="set" data="fax_enable_t38=true"/>
      <action application="set" data="sip_execute_on_image=t38_gateway self nocng"/>
      <action application="bridge" data="sofia/gateway/outboundgateway/$1"/>
   </condition>
</extension>

Inbound dialplan. This assumes that you have 5 instances of t38modem listening. Calls to 1000-1004 from the gateway at 10.10.0.2 will be routed to t38modem0 through t38modem4.

Fax inbound

<extension name="from_gateway_fax" >
   <condition field="network_addr" expression="10.10.0.2"/>
   <condition field="context" expression="default"/>
   <condition field="destination_number" expression="^100([0-4])$">
        <action application="bridge" data="{sip_execute_on_image='t38_gateway self nocng'}user/t38modem$1@${domain_name}"/>
   </condition>
</extension>