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Dialogic® Brooktrout® Trufax Fax Boards

See also:
Dialogic® Brooktrout® Fax over IP
Using Microsoft Fax with Brooktrout Fax (product page; includes downloads)

Before you start
Gen 2 PCIe Slots
Physical dimensions of Fax Boards
EuroISDN BRI service parameters

Installation
Brooktrout boards - Find the Serial Number and Part Number
How to identify a Brooktrout Trufax ROHS Fax Board
Driver error when installing on Windows 7
Driver Unable to Communicate with PCI Express Boards in Dell PowerEdge T110x and R210x
Uninstalling the Boston Host Service from a command prompt
Which DSP firmware file do the Brooktrout low profile analog fax boards use?
Pre-packaged Boston driver for different Linux kernel versions

Configuration
Direct In-Bound Fax Routing Utilizing DTMF Tones
Where is the Brooktrout configuration stored?
Where does Configtool get its initial values before settings.cfg is created?

Operation
Common reasons for Boston Host Service not to start
Duplicate faxes sent

Error Messages
Error: ConfigTool cannot proceed with the hardware configuration
Error: No Response to 3 MPS or No Response to 3 EOP
Boston.sys cause BSOD when Windows shutdown
Short black TIFF is generated on Microsoft Fax Service Provider 6.x
"Output stream is bad" error with configtool
Information on some error codes in mill_api.h
'Virtual module - Not available' error

Troubleshooting
Under Linux, Brooktrout utilities take 10 seconds to return when user not logged in as root
No answer on Analog Inbound call
Microsoft Fax Service prints blank pages
How to download and use the Dialogic Brooktrout Fax Diagnostic Tool for Windows
Brooktrout Fax Board LEDs - what do they mean?

Diagnostics
Brooktrout Logs - Which logs are required under which circumstances?
Brooktrout Call Control tracing
For ISDN: Brooktrout ISDN tracing (VTTY tracer)

Programming
Brooktrout Fax API: how to handle an error from a Bfv function.
Receiving fax pages into individual TIFF files using the Brooktrout Bfv API
Handling received fax pages that are stored as Zero RowsPerStrip
How to set the Outbound Caller ID in the Brooktrout API
PAGE_RES parameters sig_level, line_noise, and sig_quality
Shrunken or stretched fax images
Detecting DTMF digits before receiving a fax
Calling BfvHistoryDumpModChan results in a Windows exception error
Continuing on to receive more pages into a TIFF file when one pages receives 0 scanlines
How to use BfvLineAlert to stop a Brooktrout channel when the application attaches to channels using BfvSessionAttach
Providing real-time fax page send status in Brooktrout applications