This material is work-in-progress ...

This is a experimental page to see if this could replace a more complex setup using Asterisk+IAXmodem+hylafax
(Last edited by Mhavela on 2 Jul 2013.)

This document aims to create a as simple as possible to setup fax server to send and receive faxes using asterisk and asterisk-fax.

Installation

This wiki-doc is based on Alpine Linux 2.6 (but might also work on version 2.1.3 or higher)

Start by setting up a Alpine Linux base system (you will most likely want to run setup-alpine to setup the most basic settings)

Firewall

You might want to setup a firewall to protect your system. We will not address this task in this document. Some firewall alternatives in Alpine Linux are

AWall
Shorewall
iptables

Configuring Asterisk

There are multiple ways to configure Asterisk. This document only describes a very basic setup which you might want to modify based on your needs. But by following this document, you should have a fully functional fax-server using only asterisk and asterisk-fax.

Install required packages

At this stage your Alpine Linux only holds some basic packages for base functionallity. We will need to install some extra packages in order to get the fax functionallity.

apk add asterisk asterisk-fax

During this wiki doc, we will use (vim as the tool to create and edit files, so we need to install it (we will remove the

Load appropreate modules

Asterisk needs some modules to be able to handle fax.

Edit /etc/asterisk/modules.conf
vi /etc/asterisk/modules.conf
Copy this content to the file

Contents of /etc/asterisk/modules.conf

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