It works if you intend that machine as VOIP only. But I don't think without zaptel/libpri, you can connect it to existing PABX or PSTN.
> It seems that you are not understanding * architecture well. > > As I know zaptel is required for analog FXO/FXS cards from digium and > libpri for T1/E1 cards. But they have nothing to do with VoIP, which is > SIP, IAX ... > > I have never ran asterisk on OBSD, but I believe it works (I mean > asterisk only, no zaptel and libpri) > > Shohrukh > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I don't know for sure how you did it. But I been working with >> Asterisk+Zaptel+Libpri here in UK >> both for personnal and commercial VOIP applications. My success so far on >> the BSDs is with >> FreeBSD >> and never had any single damn problem. I have and reviewed the specs of >> digium over and over >> again >> that zaptel is the device driver for the NIC card that talks to the kernel. >> If you claimed that >> you made OpenBSD run asterisk, then that is something worthwhile to talk >> about. But as I could >> see, your setup is making your machine connecting to some other machine >> elsewhere. Well, in my >> opinion it would be nice if one could put zaptel+libpri+asterisk under one >> box just as a typical >> pabx. >> >> FYI, I do not used softphones and I prefer hardphones. >> >> >>> On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:39:59AM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> | If zaptel won't work in openbsd, there is no way for asterisk be >>> installed. Hence, no chance >>> for >>> | any SIP protocol to work. But in case you want to get SIP running on the >>> BSDs, I suggest you >>> go >>> | over to FreeBSD. >>> >>> I've been running a PBX with Asterisk and OpenBSD for quite some time >>> now. I'm very happy with the resulting uptime and functionality. I've >>> used an IAX softphone (LoudHush, MacOSX payware) and a few hardware >>> SIP phones. It connects to a SIP provider in the Netherlands to >>> connect to the rest of the world. No zaptel in my (sparc64) machine. >>> >>> I would also like a softphone (preferably IAX based, but SIP would be >>> fine too I suppose) in the OpenBSD ports tree, but not having one does >>> not make Asterisk on OpenBSD useless. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd >>> >>> -- >>> >>>> ++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ >>>> >>> +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] >>> http://www.weirdnet.nl/
