Hi all, There's a good signal to noise ratio on the list, I hope my basic questions don't change that :) ... I've been fiddling with asterisk on a DSL line before connecting it to something more substantial. Using MeetMe I can get no more than six connections at once so I am not sure how to test system behaviour for larger conferences or "listen-only" broadcasts, etc. So:
- Are there any online resources folks could refer me to re: network/bandwidth usage in different "typical" asterisk deployments? The ORA Asterisk book has a chapter on hardware but how best to estimate bandwidth requirements? - Is there a way in the Asterisk configuration to limit connections to a conference or "reserve" resources to ensure that a conference can happen? I can think of complicated ways of doing this at the OS level but ... - Can anyone point me to any howtos for ALTq/pf and firewalling/bandwidth management with asterisk? (m0n0wall was mentioned on the list a while back). I guess this is easy to figure out but if people have already done this perhaps it's documented? - I'm trying to use AGI to "script" things in Asterisk - but I can't quite grok how to do simple things like kill off instances of mpg123 after a conference ends (it gets started for music on hold and never dies) ... e.g. shouldn't something like this work? ; extensions.conf ; Conferences exten => 123,1,Answer() exten => 123,2,Wait(1) exten => 123,3,MeetMe(007,sirM,) exten => 123,4,Playback(vm-goodbye) exten => 123,5,Hangup() exten => 123,6,AGI(alldonenow-mpg123killer.sh) # cat alldonenow-mpg123killer.sh killall -9 mpg123 Sorry for the long e-mail and/or FAQs. Cheers, ps: Astoundingly - to me anyway - during conferences the load on my system (which is old hardware running freebsd) is negligible (only 6 connections though), the bandwidth consumption seems reasonable (bmon shows ~15-20% of bandwidth). * is great ;) -- Graham Todd -- Bellanet Secretariat http://www.bellanet.org/
