RightFax 8.5 Fax Board Guide 15
Testing the ability to send a fax
Fax.exe is a command line utility that lets you send and receive faxes to test the functionality of
Brooktrout loop-start analog fax boards and the phone lines connected to them. Before running
Fax.exe, run the Faxinit program (see ”Testing the I/O address settings” on page 14) and make sure
that no errors are generated.
To test the ability to send a fax
1. Connect a phone line to the loop-start jack on the Brooktrout fax board.
2. Open a command prompt and change to the RightFax\RFBoard folder on the RightFax server.
3. Enter the following command:
Fax -u Channel -s ,,FaxNumber test1.ipk
Where Channel is the number of the channel you are testing (use 0 (zero) for the first channel, 1
for the second channel, etc.), and FaxNumber is the number of a fax machine where you will
receive the test fax. Include any additional digits or pauses you need to get an outside line or for
accounting codes.
Example
fax -u 0 -s ,,9,5551212 test1.ipk
4. When the test is successful, you will see the following message:
Remote ID: ‘’
Total pages: 1
Page: 1 bad lines 0 total lines 1058
Done
Go to your fax machine and verify that the fax was received.
If an error is reported or the fax does not arrive at the specified fax machine, you may have a
hardware interrupt conflict. Verify that no other boards are using the same interrupt setting and
re-run the test.
Testing Brooktrout DID Boards
You can test boards with both loop-start and DID channels or with DID channels only.
Testing boards with both loop-start and DID channels
If you have a board with both loop-start and DID lines, you can perform a loopback test to verify the
operation of both types of channels at the same time. In this test, you will send a fax from the loop-
start channel to the DID channel. You can test only two channels at a time.
To perform a loopback test
1. Connect your DID power supply to the DC input jack and the fax board.
2. Using the cables supplied with the fax board, connect the RJ-45 ends to the fax board.
3. Using female-to-female adapters, connect the RJ-11 connectors at the other end of the cable to
each other.
Note There will be two RJ-11 ends if you have a two channel board and four RJ-11 ends if you have a
four-channel board. Connect cable A to cable A and cable B to cable B.
4. Open a command prompt and change to the RightFax\RFBoard folder on the RightFax server.
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