Topic: VOIP - anyone doing it with SME?

[Mick Owen]

Will shortly be establishing a permanent VPN using SME between two sites via a T1 and would like to take advantage of VOIP technology to minimise terrestial call charges.
 Is anyone using SME to do this? I'd be interested to hear experiences, equipment used etc.

[Kevin McClain]

Isn't that exactly the reason Mitel bought out e-smith?
Quote from the e-smith.com website:
"The 6000 MAS can also be deployed easily and cost-effectively as a teleworking solution for any Mitel Networks Integrated Communications Platform."Mick Owen wrote:
>
> Will shortly be establishing a permanent VPN using SME
> between two sites via a T1 and would like to take advantage
> of VOIP technology to minimise terrestial call charges.
>  Is anyone using SME to do this? I'd be interested to hear
> experiences, equipment used etc.

[Robb]

Yes I know this is cheeky considering Mitel is a phone system provider, but I have deployed asterisk (www.asterisk.org) pbx on to a sme 5.6 box, it runs quite well, but I had to install the kernel headers and other packages to get it working


I bought the cards I needed from the main asterisk sponser @  www.digium.com

Robb

[Jeff C]

Robb,

Any chance of getting a howto?

-jeff

[robb]

Yes I would like to write one, does anyone know howto post a howto on contribs.org?

Robb

[Jeff C]

Coincidentally, I am one of the admins on contribs.org :>  

When it's ready, just drop me a line or post here and I'll set up a directory for you.

-jeff

[cydonia]

did we ever get one?  even the beginnings of one...?

*crosses fingers

[duncan]

Search and you shall find.

http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/Asterisk%20HowTo

[cydonia]

Thanks.  i did search and find this but i guess i was expecting too much....  VoIP is totally new to me, i would like to setup a connection to a friends house just for the learning experience.  No idea where to begin...

But, the thought did occur to me,  what is the benefit, from either a company, or individuals perspective of installing VoIP using SME Server?  Why not just use a client such as Skype?

[cydonia]

Duncan,

I followed your tutorial, only changes being that i ad to use openssl-devel-0.9.6b-35.7.i386.rpm instead of 28 that was in your list.

Anyway, all went well, until i got to here:

----
Asteriskpbx

cd /usr/src
export CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.digium.com:/usr/cvsroot
cvs login

(The password is anoncvs)
----


I did it, and it prompted for password, which i entered.  It returned me to:
"[root@centralserver src]#"  so i typed in:

"cvs checkout zaptel libpri asterix"

But it came up with this:
===
[root@centralserver src]# cvs checkout zaptel libpri asterix
cvs server: cannot find module asterix' - ignored
cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot expand modules
[root@centralserver src]# cd asterix
bash: cd: asterix: No such file or directory
===


What am i doing wrong and how can i correct it?

Thanks.

[duncan]

For simple pc to pc calls Skype would be fine - however I have my asterisk machine integrated with our PABX. It allows one of the partners to work from home and bill calls to the office.

[duncan]

Try asterisk rather than asterix. You can ignore zaptel and libpri if you are not planning to install the digium cards.

[cydonia]

Try asterisk rather than asterix. You can ignore zaptel and libpri if you are not planning to install the digium cards.

.  thanks Duncan.  damn you asterix.

[cydonia]

For simple pc to pc calls Skype would be fine - however I have my asterisk machine integrated with our PABX. It allows one of the partners to work from home and bill calls to the office.

wow. thats awesome.  cant wait to get more into this.

Thanks for the howto.

[cydonia]

One last thing Duncan...

What hardware do you use/recommend?  Also where do you recommend i get it from?

Thanks.