Re: [asterisk-users] searching for compatible servers

2007-06-22 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
Everyone is going to have their sacred cow on this one so suspect you might have opened a can of worms ... I can tell you that I have very good results using a number of different Intel based SuperMicro servers ... these seem to be very mundane and extremely well behaved ... I have used both

[asterisk-users] Help - Poor Voice Quality

2007-02-08 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
I have been with Teliax for some time ... Overall I like the service very much ... The key things offered that got me to go with them (having been with VoicePulse and BroadVoice) was live person in tech support and choice of either SIP or IAX trunking ( I have 4xCalls with the plan I bought ) ...

[asterisk-users] 7 points of comparison Polycom 430/501 and Aastra480i. Which one to choose ?

2007-01-23 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
I am going to weigh in on this one because is an issue near and dear to me ... In my fleet, I have mostly Cisco 7960 phones ... We have a few of the Polycom 501's and a few of the Aastra 480i phones ... My personal preference is the Aastra but not based on your priorities ... Addressing your

[asterisk-users] MWI across multiple servers

2006-12-07 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
Jon: I will second that motion ... This is something I would be very interested in seeing as I have a similar requirement ... Have a number of folks on my system who work from home ... A number of them have Asterisk servers that register with the main office Asterisk server ... Right now I am

[asterisk-users] Microsoft will enter VoIP market in earnestnextyear, says Ballmer

2006-11-08 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
I took a look at this slide show and saw a lot that I like ... this level of integration between voice and email has been along time coming and I think it will eventually sell very well ... my initial reaction is, I WANT IT NOW ... we use an Exchange 2003 server in our own shop ... I have

RE: [asterisk-users] Asterisk and Panasonic KX Model

2006-10-30 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
I published a pretty detailed how to about this on the voip-info.org wiki a couple years ago ... A lot of things have changed since then and I suspect that some of the methods I used may be obsolete at this point ... But I think it might be a good place for you to start ... With my setup it

[asterisk-users] Branch office interconnect - IAX :vs: SIP?

2006-09-15 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
Scenario: Two Astlinux servers, main office/branch office. Calls come in via PSTN (ZAP)or SIP VoIP provider always at the main office. Inbound call will ring a number of extensions at main office and one phone located at a branch office site. Calls are routed to the branch office via IAX

RE: [asterisk-users] Can QUEUE member be assigned from a GlobalVar set in EXTENSIONS.CONF?

2006-09-02 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
) exten = sales,2,Voicemail(${SALES}|su) This sets all the variables within extensions.conf, and uses the local channel to translate the placeholders. I haven't tried it, but it should work in theory. On September 1, 2006 17:52, Gary G. Hendershot wrote: what I would like to do is set some

[asterisk-users] Can QUEUE member be assigned from a GlobalVar set in EXTENSIONS.CONF?

2006-09-01 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
what I would like to do is set some global variables in EXTENSIONS.CONF then read the contents of these to use as "members" of a QUEUE in QUEUES.CONF... example: (from [global] section of extensions.conf) TECH-SUPPORT=SIP/5000 ; set value of TECH-SUPORT to be SIP/5000 example: (from

RE: [asterisk-users] getting SIP to listen on multiple ports

2006-08-26 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
I use a PAP2 device to register both lines to my Asterisk server ... Both the server and the PAP2 are inside my firewall and are on the same IP subnet ... In Asterisk's SIP.CONF I have the second line setup expecting SIP to use 5061 ... One rings a wireless phone while the other rings a CO line

[asterisk-users] Strange behaviour Panasonic KX-TD1232

2006-07-30 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
The Panasonic will not allow you to dial an extension directly from the outside. You need to have Asterisk setup as a Panasonic extension and use an extension to extension format in your dial plan. Try making connections like this. -- -- | | | | | SIP

[Asterisk-Users] Sending Voicemail's to two email addresses

2005-03-02 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
I would handle this at the mail server ... would setup a group email address ... would then add existing user emails to the group as required ... would then have Asterisk send voicemail to the group email address ... the mail server would then handle distribution of the voicemail to the

RE: [Asterisk-Users] newbie questions

2005-03-02 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
Getting Asterisk to work with the proprietary phones from your Lucent PBX is not likely to happen ... you might be able to use Asterisk to act as a front end to your Lucent PBX by using FXS cards ... you would have Asterisk interface with the CO, then ring the Lucent box ... but you would not be

RE: [Asterisk-Users] 7960 Not Picking up new firmware.

2005-02-23 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
You have to change the image name in the OS79XX.txt and SIPDefault.cnf files to match the name of BIN file you are trying to load ... With versions of the firmware prior to 7.x, the name you put in the OS79XX.txt file and the SIPDefault.cnf files are the same; simply the BIN file name less the

RE: [Asterisk-Users] List tips for new subscribers --sorry for 2nd post, missed this.

2005-02-23 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
The voice of reason speaks ... Thank you Mr. Critchfield I have been taken to task on this list for 1) top posting ... I still do it because Outlook defaults to it and I prefer to see the most recent comment in a thread at the top of the page, not the bottom ... Other are entitled to their

RE: [Asterisk-Users] grandstream budgetone-100 updates

2005-02-23 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
Dean: I think that the Grandstream phone depends on some sort of proprietary TFTP service ... Am not sure of all the technical details but do know that while I was researching the phone, I noted discussion of TFTP provisioning issues ... Seems Grandstream wants you to buy from them, some pretty

[Asterisk-Users] Dialogic cards

2005-02-23 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
-Original Message- From: Nash, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 3:03 PM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Dialogic cards Hello, Has anyone had any luck getting a D/41D ISA dialogic card working

[Asterisk-Users] TFTP Server

2005-02-22 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
On my server (ES3) the TFTPBOOT folder is where I put my Cisco image loader files -Original Message- From: Ferguson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 1:25 PM To: Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] TFTP Server G'Day All, Can

[Asterisk-Users] TFTP Server

2005-02-22 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
On my server (ES3) the TFTPBOOT folder is where I put my Cisco image loader files -Original Message- From: Ferguson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 1:25 PM To: Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] TFTP Server G'Day All, Can

[Asterisk-Users] TFTP Server

2005-02-22 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
On my server (ES3) the TFTPBOOT folder is where I put my Cisco image loader files -Original Message- From: Ferguson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 1:25 PM To: Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] TFTP Server G'Day All, Can

[Asterisk-Users] TFTP Server

2005-02-22 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
On my server (ES3) the TFTPBOOT folder is where I put my Cisco image loader files -Original Message- From: Ferguson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 1:25 PM To: Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] TFTP Server G'Day All, Can

[Asterisk-Users] TFTP Server

2005-02-22 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
The Cisco phone is defaulted to getting its IP address and related from a DHCP server ... One of the things the phone expects to get from the DHCP server is the address of the TFTP server ... If there is no TFTP server address handed out by the DHCP server, the phone assumes that the DHCP server

[Asterisk-Users] TFTP Server

2005-02-22 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
On my server (ES3) the TFTPBOOT folder is where I put my Cisco image loader files -Original Message- From: Ferguson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 1:25 PM To: Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] TFTP Server G'Day All, Can

[Asterisk-Users] TFTP Server

2005-02-22 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
On my server (ES3) the TFTPBOOT folder is where I put my Cisco image loader files -Original Message- From: Ferguson, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 1:25 PM To: Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] TFTP Server G'Day All, Can

RE: [Asterisk-Users] switches

2005-01-15 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
-Original Message- From: Satchid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 7:31 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] switches Dear Group, This might be a little OT, but I am lost in this. What type of network switches is the minimum for use

RE: [Asterisk-Users] kind of urgent

2005-01-06 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
Try WhiteBox Linux ... It's a freeware clone of Redhat Enterprise Linux ... Its available for download in ISO CD image form (3 CD's required) ... Installs and configures just like Redhat ... Am using it now with SATA drives ... Works well with Asterisk ... Should be able to find a download site

[Asterisk-Users] newbie problem

2004-11-27 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
Two items to consider 1) make sure you have the connections right ... Your FXO port on the card (the one you will signal using FXS) is connected to the incoming phone line ... Your FXS port on the card (the one you will signal using FXO) is connected to the analog telephone you want to

[Asterisk-Users] Can a Macro call another Macro ?

2004-08-27 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
Stupid newbie question that has probably been answered before but can a Macro call another Macro ??? is there any rules about how deep ??? Gary G. Hendershot Chief Technical Officer Advanced Digital Technologies BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Hendershot;Gary FN:Gary Hendershot

[Asterisk-Users] IP Phone Recommendation ?

2004-08-25 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
is a little guidance from folks out there who may have already made a mistake that I should avoid info on any gotchas that I should be aware of would be appreciated Thanks Gary G. Hendershot Chief Technical Officer Advanced Digital Technologies BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Hendershot

[Asterisk-Users] Could use some advice/reality check from someone knowledgeable

2004-08-25 Thread Gary G. Hendershot
be aware of would be appreciated. Thanks Gary G. Hendershot Chief Technical Officer Advanced Digital Technologies ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options