Topic: AsteriskPBX

[duncan]

Anyone interested in a very brief howto?

[Muzo]

What's this?

[markleman]

Very much so, I had recently downloaded the source of Asterisk and compiled it on an e-smith 6 dev box in preparation to working out how to get it going. Once I had it configured my next task was to build a control panel for it - as this is my first e-smith project it was going to take some time

If you have a how-to and some RPMs built I would love to see them.

Mark Leman

[markleman]

What's this?

It is an open source PBX system which can switch and route calls between real phones & lines (with the correct hardware) and VoIP phones and lines. Many other featurs you would expect from a modern PBX and more! An amazing system but not very well documented - hence I have spent several weeks reading the docs and mailing list before coming to the conclusion I'm don't know much yet

See http://www.asterisk.org/ to get started

[Muzo]

Thanks, it's very interesting.

[Anonymous]

It is an open source PBX system which can switch and route calls between real phones & lines (with the correct hardware) and VoIP phones and lines. Many other featurs you would expect from a modern PBX and more! An amazing system but not very well documened - hence I have spent several weeks reading the docs and mailing list before coming to the conclusion I'm don't know much yet

See http://www.asterisk.org/ to get started

And I am very much in the same boat.

If I did a howto it would simply be how to install it from source. Configuring it is not something I would want to tackle (Too many scenarios).

Did you find this site?
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk

Regards Duncan

[Anonymous]

And I am very much in the same boat.

If I did a howto it would simply be how to install it from source. Configuring it is not something I would want to tackle (Too many scenarios).

Did you find this site?
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk
Regards Duncan

I had found www.voip-info.org but not noticed the /wiki-Asterisk (drowing in info .

A howto on installing from source is a good start, and then we could progress to making some RPMs which would be more useful to the average user. Once we can install the application from an RPM and configure via files we could start on a control panel, which makes sense in an e-smith environment. I was aiming write a control panel to automatically generate a setup file providing internal voip phone for each e-smith user and control a limited number of analogue and ISDN cards for external access.

Quite a big thing to bite off as a first e-smith project and the learning curve is proving steep but I have to aim somewhere

[matsk]

I'm also intressted in asterisk.

/Mats

[Anonymous]

After spending the past couple of days experimenting - I have to say you have picked a beauty for your first effort.

I like the idea of – create a user account – get a sip account (perhaps with voicemail).
ISDN already supported is handy although I did have to patch and rebuild the hisax driver for my netjet cards to allow voice transparency.

I am willing to help with something like this – however my experience is in the communications industry so it would probably be from that side of the IT fence.
Rolling RPMs holds little interest to me.

I have some Digium cards coming this week – so I decided to do a full install with the Zaptel stuff from CVS. The first thing it did was assault my modules.conf. Need to sort that out. I also have a Grandstream sip phone coming which I am pretty keen to try out. Get one of my guys on a wireless link connected in to the PABX.

I will piece a howto together over the next week.

Regards Duncan

[duncan]

And man, I have got remember to log in. This Guest chap posts everywhere.

[Anonymous]

You can enable a one year cockie in your contribs profile, then you don't need to remember to login.

The cockie is disabled as default.

/Mats

[pete]

the cookie dun work for me, i still gotta hit the login button EVERy time i come here, might be cos i ahve a gfew xoops sites myself?

IS the aterix stuff a fully featured voicemail system?

Could it do all your voice/fax stuff? i wouldnt mind something like that at home for our small business...several inbound lines, several voicemail boxes and a few fax numbers?

[matsk]

Could it do all your voice/fax stuff? i wouldnt mind something like that at home for our small business...several inbound lines, several voicemail boxes and a few fax numbers?

Yes.


/Mats

[pete]

I would LOVE to see a howto.

Specifically i wish to use an SME gateway with 3 remote VPN sites (remotes have a hardware VPN router).

I would love to have Asterisk on the VPN gateway machine, with maybe 2 or 4 inbound analogue lines with a small number range, with voip handsets at each of the remote sites.

Is it possible to use this over the VPN? I want the remote sites COMPLETELY secured to only use VPN traffic to and from the SME gateway, they have no web access etc, the VPN will be over adsl - is 256kb adsl to each remote site sufficient for this?

Does anyone have any expereince in running the VPN network an thre PBX network together? could you post your experriences? or links to furher info?

I have posted some questions on the topic here
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=20662.msg81486#msg81486

[duncan]

ASTERISK HOWTO

Go here

Feel free to add or flame as you see fit.

Regards Duncan