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Fax over IP, T38 vs. G711ulaw

Looking for some help on to determine if changing the fax configuration on our network will help solve some problems we are having at our remote offices with faxing. Whenever a fax comes in or out of our network I see the codec that it uses is g711ulaw from the "sh voice call summary" command.

The remote offices are complaining faxing issues like only half a page going through or the fax not going through at all. So would forcing T38 help this at all?

Here is the current set up. All voice commands are configured on the CUCM server. However I have enabled T38 for faxing on the CUCM server but the fax still comes through as G711ulaw. Do i have to create any dial-peers that specify T38 on all the voice gateways? If I disable T38 from the CUCM gateway config page then I get a line in the 2851 that says mgcp fax t38 inhibit.

2x T1 for voice
|
Cisco 2851 ISR
|
Cat 6509 ---------- CUCM 7.0
|
3X VG224

I've attached a screen shot of the cucm gateway config and the configs fo the 2851 and vg224.
2851.txt
vg224.txt
cucm7.0.png

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jwil320

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hmmm i tried the above and now it my office doesn't except any calls. and now a show voice call summary shows the following.

0/0/0:23.1 *shutdown*
0/0/0:23.2 *shutdown*
0/0/0:23.3 *shutdown*
0/0/0:23.4 *shutdown*
0/0/0:23.5 *shutdown*
0/0/0:23.6 *shutdown*
0/0/0:23.7 *shutdown*
0/0/0:23.8 *shutdown*
0/0/0:23.9 *shutdown*
0/0/0:23.10 *shutdown*
0/0/0:23.11 *shutdown*
0/0/0:23.12 *shutdown*
0/0/0:23.13 *shutdown*
0/0/0:23.14 *shutdown*
0/0/0:23.15 *shutdown*
0/0/0:23.16 *shutdown*
0/0/0:23.17 *shutdown*
0/0/0:23.18 *shutdown*
0/0/0:23.19 *shutdown*
0/0/0:23.20 *shutdown*
0/0/0:23.21 *shutdown*
0/0/0:23.22 *shutdown*
0/0/0:23.23 *shutdown*
0/1/0 - - - FXOLS_ONHOOK
0/1/1 *shutdown*
0/0/1:23.1 *shutdown*
0/0/1:23.2 *shutdown*
0/0/1:23.3 *shutdown*
0/0/1:23.4 *shutdown*
0/0/1:23.5 *shutdown*
0/0/1:23.6 *shutdown*
0/0/1:23.7 *shutdown*
0/0/1:23.8 *shutdown*
0/0/1:23.9 *shutdown*
0/0/1:23.10 *shutdown*
0/0/1:23.11 *shutdown*
0/0/1:23.12 *shutdown*
0/0/1:23.13 *shutdown*
0/0/1:23.14 *shutdown*
0/0/1:23.15 *shutdown*
0/0/1:23.16 *shutdown*
0/0/1:23.17 *shutdown*
0/0/1:23.18 *shutdown*
0/0/1:23.19 *shutdown*
0/0/1:23.20 *shutdown*
0/0/1:23.21 *shutdown*
0/0/1:23.22 *shutdown*
0/0/1:23.23 *shutdown*
2/0/0 *shutdown*
2/0/1 - - - FXSLS_ONHOOK
2/0/2 - - - FXSLS_ONHOOK
2/0/3 - - - FXSLS_ONHOOK
2/0/4 - - - FXSLS_ONHOOK
2/0/5 - - - FXSLS_ONHOOK
2/0/6 - - - FXSLS_ONHOOK
2/0/7 - - - FXSLS_ONHOOK
2/0/8 - - - FXOLS_ONHOOK
2/0/9 - - - FXOLS_ONHOOK
2/0/10 - - - FXOLS_ONHOOK
2/0/11 - - - FXOLS_ONHOOK
2/0/12 - - - FXOLS_ONHOOK
2/0/13 - - - FXOLS_ONHOOK

jwil320

ASKER

ok just needed to reset the connection from the CUCM.

bfason

Did the reset from the CM bring it up?

might look at the following to make sure none are shutdown

controller t1 0/0/0 and 0/0/1
serial interface 0/0/0:23
serial interface 0/0/1:23
voice-port 0/0/1:23
voice-port 0/0/0:23

jwil320

ASKER

yea the reset brought them back online.

bfason

great, is t38 working for you now?

jwil320

ASKER

it's somewhat working. I think I'm going to restart all the CUCM servers tonight. The remote offices said their faxes are going through and my main office says everything is ok also. But There is another part of our building that is connected through fiber which use a different CUCM server in the cluster that is complaining now. Which they didn't before the change.

We have 3x CUCM servers. I made sure the T38 fax is enabled on all 3. I forced the T38 connection on all gateways. Is there something else that I am missing? or something that needs to be added because of the redundancy? I've attached the config of the other gateway router it is a 2821 ISR.
2821.txt

bfason

Can you diagram the connectivity for the part of the building that is having issues? If all 3 call managers are in the same cluster then you shouldn't have to configure each server individually.

Are they getting the same error the others had before or something different?

jwil320

ASKER

they are in the same cluster. The only issue is the faxes are only half or 3/4 of a page.

bfason

What devices are between the 2821 and the pri? is qos configured end to end?

jwil320

ASKER

PSTN---(SRST) PSTN
| /
2821 2851
| |
3750--------------6509----------CUCM

jwil320

ASKER

Yes QoS is configured throughout the network. End to End.

bfason

Are the faxes connected to fxs interfaces in the 2821 and are the 2 PRI interfaces on the same 2821 the connection these faxes use to reach the pstn?

jwil320

ASKER

The faxes are connected to a vg224. I believe they only use the pstn connection from the 2821 if our main connection goes down. the 2851 is our main connection to the PSTN.

bfason

Ok, is t38 enabled on the vg? Can you post the config and a screen shot of the configuration on cucm?

jwil320

ASKER

I disabled the fax modem passthrough and now everything is working. Thanks for your help.

bfason

Great, glad all is well!