[Asterisk-Users] sip invite timeouts

2005-12-02 Thread Matthew Simpson
Is there a way in asterisk to configure a sip invite timeout ?  It seems 
to be about 30 seconds right now which is too long.  I would like to 
have asterisk return congestion if a host does not respond to an invite 
within 5 seconds.

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[Asterisk-Users] Re: [Asterisk-biz] http://www.87810.com/

2005-11-22 Thread Matthew Simpson
Well.. you have to be a member of www.goiax.com for someone to call the 
87820 number that is assigned.  Of course it is free, so that isn't a 
huge barrier.  It's basically like Free World Dialup, although I allow 
regular US dids to be assigned for free as an option.


yours,
matthew

Rehan Ahmed AllahWala - Super Technologies I wrote:

So how do u route them ?

I mean if i want to route calls to you, what does one do ?

Rehan



I tried to use those numbers as an option for my www.goiax.com project. 
 However, Telcordia wants $3.00 per month per number for a number that 
most people can't even call... so I made up my own number [87820].  :-D


The ITU can put that in their pipe and smoke it.



Rehan Ahmed AllahWala - Super Technologies I wrote:


Have any one used http://www.87810.com/ or has a +87810x number  running?

Whats the news on this ?

Rehan

Super Technologies Inc., Pensacola, Florida
http://www.supertec.com - Technologies from tomorrow, TODAY!
http://www.VirtualPhoneLine.com - Get A US, UK, EU Number, Forward it to 
PSTN, SIP or IAX2 number, or Asterisk  Superb Web Controls.

http://www.PhoneOpia.com - SIP Based OPEN Phone Services.
http://www.MySuperPhone.com - The NEXT Generation of Telephone.
Http://www.ip-pabx.com - Ip Centrex System, with global service.
Http://www.superPBX.net - One World, One Number, One Pabx, Physical.
http://www.didX.org - World's First DID Number Exchange / Peering Service.


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http://www.supertec.com - Technologies from tomorrow, TODAY!
http://www.VirtualPhoneLine.com - Get A US, UK, EU Number, Forward it to 
PSTN, SIP or IAX2 number, or Asterisk  Superb Web Controls.

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http://www.MySuperPhone.com - The NEXT Generation of Telephone.
Http://www.ip-pabx.com - Ip Centrex System, with global service.
Http://www.superPBX.net - One World, One Number, One Pabx, Physical.
http://www.didX.org - World's First DID Number Exchange / Peering Service.




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[Asterisk-Users] asterisk high load high availability servers

2005-11-11 Thread Matthew Simpson
anyone using a high availability server set up for Asterisk ?  I saw IBM 
had some kind of solution at VON but was too busy exhibiting to check it 
out. :(


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[Asterisk-Users] free dids on goiax.com

2005-10-18 Thread Matthew Simpson
GoIAX, the Asterisk community's free IAX provider, is offering free US 
dids now.  I loaded about 175 dids in and put up a very beta sign in page.


Unfortunately I had to restrict the free us/canada outbound calling back 
down to toll-free only.  There was a lot of war dialing and prank 
calling going on.  I'm working on some stuff to hopefully curb that kind 
of stuff down so I can unrestrict outdial again, but this is the problem 
with free.. there is always someone that will abuse it.


If anybody has any ideas on how to keep the abuse down let me know.  The 
best ideas I have now is to only allow a certain amount of calling per 
month, add velocity checking, and somehow put some accountability into 
the sign up process to keep the prank callers and multiple account 
abusers away.


yours,
Matthew Simpson
GoIAX -- www.goiax.com
TxLink -- www.txlink.net
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[Asterisk-Users] more dids added to goiax.com

2005-10-18 Thread Matthew Simpson
To address the issue about the Firefox browser, I develop [if you want 
to call it that, lol] the sites on Opera so it should work fine in 
Firefox.  Nothing fancy at all just HTML 4.0 forms, etc.  The other 
poster hit the nail on the head, it was out of DIDs. I just loaded 
another 200 random dids in so we'll see how long those last.


I'm going to add code to confirm the email addresses that people signed 
up for to avoid DID hogging and also going to reclaim DIDs that go 
totally unused for more than probably a 30 day period to keep DIDs from 
going stale and unused.


And about the free outgoing, I don't want people to jump through hoops 
at all.  That's not what this was supposed to be about.  I don't want 
people to have to use something like Paypal either, that's irritating 
and a lot of people used the service from out of the country [like some 
US Marines calling home from Iraq] that couldn't use paypal anyway.


I do like the Web of Trust idea.  Maybe I'll do it google style and give 
out some invites to people [say 5] and then those 5 people will get a 
couple invites, and so on.  Each invite would point back to the person 
who gave it so if I trust Bob and he trusts Sam who trusts Sue but Sue 
turns out to be an abuser, I can see that Sam give it to Sue and revoke 
Sue's account and make her untrustworthy to the system [blacklisted]. 
 If Sam invites several people that all end up black listing, than 
Sam's ability to get invites will get removed [but he would not get 
blacklisted since he is not abusing, just passing out invites to 
abusers].  This would have to all be done by machine to scale ... not 
sure I have the time to put the code together but if it worked it might 
be useful for other free services out there.


What do you guys think?

yours,
matthew
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[Asterisk-Users] Re: goiax expanded with free us domestic calling

2005-09-26 Thread Matthew Simpson



Joe Stewart wrote:

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 11:12:24AM -0700, Matthew Simpson wrote:

I launched www.goiax.com last week, which is intended to promote the use 
of IAX as a free and open source alternative to products like skype. 
There is no charge for the service.  Right now I have free outbound to 
united states toll-free and us domestic numbers working.





Thank you very much for setting up this service.

I've successfully made calls, but unlike my other iax trunks the 
callerid isn't passed on so the call comes in from areacode 202.

Any hints to get this working?


The caller ID thing is intended behavior.  Passing the 87820-xxx 
number doesn't usually show up so it will come up as the 202 number.





Currently the site hands out a virtual 87820-xxx number but I intend 
to add the ability to get a free United States DID [possibly other 
countries as well] as well.


Please test it out.  You can use an IAXy, asterisk, or an IAX softphone 
like iaxcomm.





I've only used asterisk.  If I have a chance I'll try a softphone.


Any chance of g729?  I know that since this is iax your options would be 
more limited as far as licensing.


GSM is available. It takes up far less CPU than G729 and is about equal 
in quality and bandwidth usage.




just wanted to send you a note and say thanks,

Joe



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Re: [Asterisk-Users] goiax caller ID

2005-09-26 Thread Matthew Simpson



Kevin Scott wrote:

I'm not sure what he/she was sending as the caller ID information, what I
was trying to do, was send a normal 10 digit number as caller ID.  Is there
any solution to this?  Or anything planned?

There are no plans to allow just any caller ID to be sent.  Once US dids 
are available than the DID cid would be sent instead.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: goiax expanded with free us domestic calling

2005-09-23 Thread Matthew Simpson

Steven wrote:

Can I ask how you are providing calls to us domestic numbers for free?



goiax.com is backed by TxLink [www.txlink.net].  We terminate a lot of 
minutes.

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[Asterisk-Users] goiax expanded with free us domestic calling

2005-09-23 Thread Matthew Simpson
I launched www.goiax.com last week, which is intended to promote the use 
of IAX as a free and open source alternative to products like skype. 
There is no charge for the service.  Right now I have free outbound to 
united states toll-free and us domestic numbers working.


Currently the site hands out a virtual 87820-xxx number but I intend 
to add the ability to get a free United States DID [possibly other 
countries as well] as well.


Please test it out.  You can use an IAXy, asterisk, or an IAX softphone 
like iaxcomm.


I intend to also modify asterisk to allow some QoS checking to avoid the 
problems IaxTel had with scalability.  I would like some developer input 
on this.  My idea right now is to add an app to asterisk that listens on 
a port for a status packet that will be sent from a softphone or 
IAX-compatible device.  Asterisk would then reply with a packet that 
would contain current CPU load, current mem load, and number of channels 
up at that point.  I would also like to have the asterisk app know the 
status of other IAX servers on that network and be able to reply with 
the IP address of the best available server at that time.




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Re: [Asterisk-Users] custom ring tone

2005-09-22 Thread Matthew Simpson
Yeah. It's a brilliant idea because I believe they would probably return 
answer supervision to play these custom ring tones therefore creating 
more revenue from the incoming calls.



Marko Rakar wrote:

Few weeks back local telco introduced option of custom ring tones. I am
not talking about your phone ring tones but about ring tones you hear in
your headset while phone is ringing on the other end.

If I understand correctly, ringing tone is generated localy on asterisk
if you are connected to phone network with E1/T1 connection. Which means
that instead of regular beep-beep tone we could send something else to
the caller in PSTN (like mp3 music).

Is there a way of customizing ring tone in asterisk and if yes how?



Long, long ago in a galaxy far away, in General Hospital born I was, and
quite happy were my parents, but when a youngling still I was, moved we
did.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] AstriCon 2006 Location

2005-09-18 Thread Matthew Simpson



Actually, we have thought about that too.  The problem is scheduling
so as not to conflict with any of the other shows that our major
sponsors are doing (remember, they help keep the cost of the
conference down).

Within roughly week of AstriCon on one side or ther other we have the
CompTel/ASCENT show, WISPCON, ISPCON, Telecom '05, Phreaknic, ITU
Americas, and TMC's Internet Telephony.  VON is only 3 weeks prior. 
In general the fall is chock-full-o telephony shows.




I'm skipping Comptel this year to go to Astricon.  I tried to get out to 
Orlando for just one day but the flights from LAX to MCO are 
ridiculously long time wise, and they all landed outside of exhibition 
hours.


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Re: [Asterisk-Users] AstriCon 2006 Location

2005-09-18 Thread Matthew Simpson


If you are looking for the maximum number of cheap flights from around 
the world, and plenty of convention and room space, the answer is Las 
Vegas :-)


quoted for truth.

$79 flights from Dallas.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Who is going to AstriCon (The Asterisk Conference)?

2005-09-17 Thread Matthew Simpson



So far we've had at least one person indicate that they would not want
to travel to the US at this time.  All politics aside, how many out
there feel the same way?  I do NOT want to start a polical flame-war,
but I am curious at the number of people who simply won't come to the
States due to the current Administration, the Iraq war, or some other
reason.


That's just ridiculous. LOL.
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] AstriCon 2006 Location

2005-09-17 Thread Matthew Simpson




Actually, we're based out of Kansas City, Missouri (NOT Kansas - we
believe in science) so Omaha would be pretty convenient for us --
it's the other 98% of the community which would have four connections.
;-)


Atlanta is hub for Delta and Airtran

Dallas is hub for American

Chicago is hub for ATA

All good central locations with cheap non stop flights.

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[Asterisk-Users] free IAX calling platform

2005-09-16 Thread Matthew Simpson

Hello all,

I have set up a free IAX calling platform similar to 
FreeWorldDialup/IAXtel.  You can access it at http://www.goiax.com/


The website is still very beta but it will allow you to sign up for a 
virtual phone number, and you can make outgoing calls to US toll-free 
numbers.  There is also a conference bridge set up. Codecs are G.711 and 
GSM.


I intend to allow users to choose united states DIDs for free in the 
future after I get the website polished up a little bit.


The backend is using Asterisk Realtime.

If anybody has any ideas for improvements let me know.

yours,
Matthew
TxLink
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Who is going to AstriCon (The Asterisk Conference)?

2005-09-16 Thread Matthew Simpson

I will be there.

Matthew Simpson
TxLink-Commpartners



Steven Sokol wrote:

Hi,

I'm taking a straw-poll to see who out there is planning on going to
AstriCon.  I would like to hear from both new members of the community
and gurus.  What kinds of things would you like to see at an Asterisk
Conference?  What topics are good BOF (Birds Of a Feather - informal
discussion group) fodder?  What parts of Asterisk require the most
attention?

FYI - AstriCon is October 12 - 14 in Anaheim.  For more information on
what we currently have planned, see the web site (listed below).

Thanks,

Steve

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[Asterisk-Users] realtime caller id extension matching

2005-07-25 Thread Matthew Simpson
I'm trying to copy the functionality of something like this in 
extensions.conf [extension matching on callerid]:


exten = _NXXNXX/7065557230,1,NoCDR
exten = _NXXNXX/7065557230,2,Dial(Zap/g1/${EXTEN})
exten = _NXXNXX/7065557230,3,Busy

in realtime:

| 16 | fb | _NXXNXX/7065557230 |1 | NoCDR | |
| 17 | fb | _NXXNXX/7065557230 |2 | Dial  | Zap/g1/${EXTEN} |
| 18 | fb | _NXXNXX/7065557230 |3 | Busy  | |

however realtime seems to match on only the _NXXNXX, making this code 
execute on all extensions, ignoring the caller id matching.  Do I need to 
use something other than / to delimit the CID field ? Or is this not 
supported in realtime?


[i'm using mysql driver]

- matthew 


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[Asterisk-Users] re: realtime caller id extensions matching

2005-07-25 Thread Matthew Simpson

answered my own question

from: pbx_realtime.c

The realtime table currently does not support callerid fields.


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[Asterisk-Users] cisco 7960 question

2005-05-19 Thread Matthew Simpson
I have a stupid question. How do you remove line presentations on a cisco 
7960 ?  I have 3 line presentations I don't use anymore and I can't figure 
out how to remove them.

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[Asterisk-Users] zap a sip channel

2005-02-16 Thread Matthew Simpson
Is there anyway to destroy a sip channel ?  I get hung up channels like this 
in sip show channels:

67.153.9.20   2145558260  33ae28f6088  00102/0   unknow
67.153.9.20   2145558260  52be8085005  00102/0   unknow
67.153.9.20   2145558260  4653d937578  00102/0   unknow
67.153.9.20   2145558260  2f9bc49d03a  00102/0   unknow
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[Asterisk-Users] dialplan question

2005-01-28 Thread Matthew Simpson
Hello, I have a dial plan that tries to place a call over several different 
outbound gateways, like this:

exten = _1X.,1,Dial(SIP/[EMAIL PROTECTED])
exten = _1X.,2,Dial(SIP/[EMAIL PROTECTED])
exten = _1X.,3,Dial(SIP/[EMAIL PROTECTED])
exten = _1X.,4,Dial(SIP/[EMAIL PROTECTED])
exten = _1X.,5,Hangup
it works fine if one of the gateways is busy [rolls to the next dial 
statement].  However, if the phone number itself on the proxyX gateway is 
PSTN-busy, then it correctly returns 486 busy here, but execution continues, 
which wastes trunks trying a busy number on each gateway.

What is the best way to handle this?  Inserting +101 extensions with the 
Hangup command ?  Will that still properly signal 486 busy here back? 
Should I be using Congestion instead of Hang up ? 

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[Asterisk-Users] TE-405P freezing, anyone else?

2005-01-10 Thread Matthew Simpson
Hello list,
I have about 20 Digium TE-405Ps out in the field, and I started having 
trouble with one just recently.  The card had worked fine for a month with 4 
PRIs in NFAS configuration, and then all of a sudden I started getting a 
disappearing D channel.  A restart of asterisk / ztcfg /module unload-load 
did not fix the problem, but a reboot [not power off, just a restart] would 
bring it back online.  The card would then work for another day and then 
poop out again, no D channel, nothing coming in from a pri intense debug. 
Asterisk itself was working fine, nothing strange in the verbose or debug 
logs.

I RMA'd it back but just wondering if anyone else had this problem ? One of 
our customers told me over the phone that he had the same issue and that he 
had heard that it was an issue with the firmware on the newer TE-4x0P 
cards.

BTW, I did a trace on what the card was sending with a protocol analyzer... 
card was sending out all 1s.

A new TE-405P seems to be working okay.
Matthew Simpson
TxLink Communications
http://www.txlink.net/
+ SIP and IAX origination and termination
+ Unlimited incoming toll-free $20/LATA
+ Texas origination and termination for $0.005/min
+ US origination and termination $0.005 to $0.012/min
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[Asterisk-Users] echo cancelation on Digium T1 cards

2005-01-10 Thread Matthew Simpson
Hello all,
I am getting console debug messages about tone detected on channel XX, 
disabling echo cancelation on channel XX when using echocancel=yes with a 
Digium T1 card.

does this mean that DTMF breaks the echo can?  Does Asterisk permanently 
disable the echo can or is it for that channel instance only?

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[Asterisk-Users] Verisign SIP7 sip--ss7 service

2005-01-03 Thread Matthew Simpson
Is anyone using the Verisign SIP7 SIP -- SS7 service with Asterisk?
Does anyone have a Verisign contact?
yours,
Matthew Simpson
TxLink Communications
www.txlink.net/
IAX and SIP Origination and Termination Services
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[Asterisk-Users] asterisk and level3

2004-11-19 Thread Matthew Simpson
We are in the process of mating our Lucent softswitch to Level3.  I am also 
wanting to put some Asterisk equipment in this configuration.  Has anyone 
done interop testing with Level3 and Asterisk?  Any issues ?  I am about to 
start next week.

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[Asterisk-Users] call files

2004-11-15 Thread Matthew Simpson
Hello, I am having trouble with call files.  I want my call files to attempt 
only 1 time, and never retry.  I am trying to bridge two calls together, one 
call to my office [9726172877] and the other call to my cell [2022463521] My 
call file looks like this:

Channel: IAX2/outgoing/19726172877
SetVar: ringtime=30
Callerid: 8668954650
MaxRetries: 0
RetryTime: 0
WaitTime: 0
Context: outgoing
Extension: 12022463521
Priority: 1
Everything works properly, but I get these errors:
Nov 15 23:16:04 WARNING[180235]: pbx_spool.c:156 apply_outgoing: Invalid 
retrytime at line 5 of 
/var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/2d4f5de784381a423b13480003a39a6434d63f96.call
Nov 15 23:16:04 WARNING[180235]: pbx_spool.c:161 apply_outgoing: Invalid 
retrytime at line 6 of 
/var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/2d4f5de784381a423b13480003a39a6434d63f96.call

and sometimes Asterisk tries to call my office again while the call is 
bridged.

What is the proper way to accomplish this? 

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[Asterisk-Users] answer on # key?

2004-10-21 Thread Matthew Simpson
I thought I read somewhere on the Wiki that one could give Dial() an 
argument that would first dial the extension, but not bridge the connection 
until the called party hit the # key.  It must have been during one of 
those late night coding sessions because now I can't find anything to do 
with that other than options to allow hangup of the call by hitting *.

Does such an option exist?
If not, is anyone using a Macro to do that?
I have a system that attempts to do a Dial out to a cell phone number with a 
15 second timer as a find me type of application.  If the cell phone is off 
or out of range, the 15 seconds of ring time isn't reached and the caller 
gets connected to the cell phone's voicemail instead of the Asterisk 
voicemail like I want.  Having the # to connect option would fix this 
problem.

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[Asterisk-Users] grandstream bt-486 can only dial with #

2004-10-15 Thread Matthew Simpson
I have a grandstream BT-486 in the lab running 1.0.5.11 firmware.
For the past three days I've had no trouble dialing out without hitting #. 
I had the setting for using # as dial key to no in the config.

Today the BT wouldn't pass outgoing calls.  I turned on # as dial key and it 
works now if I hit # at the end.  I have changed nothing on the BT-486 and 
nothing on the * box it is connected to.

Anybody seen this happen before?
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[Asterisk-Users] new ATA box for sale by Linksys

2004-09-19 Thread Matthew Simpson
Fry's Electronics has a new Linksys 2 line ATA box for sale for $59.99
retail. They have a version with a router for $89.99.  We picked the
non-router version up and it seems to be a rebadged Sipura SPA-2000.  The
box has a Vonage service package inside as well, but it does work with other
services.

The box also has a User Guide meant for end-users that is very well
written [no Engrish] and explains the calling features and install well.

I imagine that the wholesale price of these ATAs will be very attractive if
they are selling for $60 retail!

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] new ATA box for sale by Linksys

2004-09-19 Thread Matthew Simpson
From your experience, could you give us the merits and demerits of
these ATA devices as well as the IAXy.
They are essentially a Sipura SPA-2000.  One of my customers uses the Sipura 
exclusively for his customers and they work very well.  Setup is easy, and 
they support the CLASS type features superbly.

Thanks to everyone who cleared up the PAP2 versus PAP2-NA.  I am not sure if 
the one bought at Fry's is the NA version or not.  I didn't buy it, my 
customer did.  If it's the Vonage-locked version I'm sure he'll return it. 
I do know that the only version Frys had on the shelf had a Vonage sticker 
pasted on it, but the side of the box seems to indicate that it will work 
with any SIP phone service provider.

Matthew N. Simpson
TxLink Communications
SIP/IAX VoIP Origination and Termination Minutes as low as 0.005/minute
www.txlink.net/ 

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[Asterisk-Users] iax2 transfer and CDRs

2004-09-13 Thread Matthew Simpson
Does IAX2 properly update call records for transferred calls to another IAX2
server?  Or should I still be using notransfer=yes ?

Example:

SERVER1 calls SERVER2 which transfers call to SERVER3

If Call records are pulled from Server2 will that call have proper CDRs?
The Wiki says no.

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[Asterisk-Users] stale voicemail messages / greeting

2004-09-08 Thread Matthew Simpson
I'm using Asterisk to read voicemail users out of a SQL database.  I am
assigning users real phone numbers as their voicemail box.  The problem is
that if I re-assign a phone number (say, 972-245-0001), the new user is
stuck with the old user's greeting and saved messages.  What is the best way
to resolve this?

I don't want to use unique mailbox ids because my dialplan looks like this
in the incoming DID context

[incomingdids]
exten = _972245,1,setvar(boxnum=${EXTEN})
exten = _972245,2,VoiceMail(u${EXTEN})
exten = _972245,3,Hangup

exten = a,1,VoiceMailMain(${boxnum})
exten = a,2,Hangup


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[Asterisk-Users] new Asterisk resources site

2004-09-07 Thread Matthew Simpson
hello everyone,

I have compiled a few scripts (PERL AGI and PHP management) I have written
for Asterisk together and put them up at:

http://www.txlink.net/asterisk.php

Just click on Resources to skip directly to the scripts.  The rest of that
page is meant to be an Asterisk introduction to potential new Asterisk
users, and I plan to add some additional tutorials to it.  If anyone has any
new-user type links that I do not have on the page already, please email
them to me for addition to the page.

If you would like your company to be listed on the Case Studies section,
please respond off-list to me as well.

yours,
Matthew Simpson
TxLink Communications www.txlink.net/
Asterisk PSTN Origination and Termination -- Connect your * to the public
telephone network

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[Asterisk-Users] is chan_skinny broken?

2004-07-28 Thread Matthew Simpson
I am trying to use chan_skinny but when loading the module I get:

[ Booting../usr/lib/asterisk/modules/chan_skinny.so: undefined symbol:
ast_pickup_call

I am using CVS 07/23

I can't get chan_sccp2 to compile, it gives me parse errors, or I'd be using
that.  :-/


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RE: [Asterisk-Users] hang up when going to voicemail

2004-07-25 Thread Matthew Simpson
Doh!  The reason it changed when I upgraded is because I was compiling VM
with Mysql, and I had the mailbox definitions in the voicemail.conf
flat-file.

I put the definition in the SQL database and it works fine, now.  :-/

thanks for kicking me into the right direction :)

yours,
matthew


 Are you sure you have a mailbox for this number ?

 Umar

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matthew
 Simpson
 Sent: 23 July 2004 16:34
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [Asterisk-Users] hang up when going to voicemail


 I have a little menu set up where hitting 1, 2, or 3 places the call
through
 to a cellular phone over IAX.  That works.  However, if caller hits 4 to
go
 into voicemail, the system hangs up.  Am I doing something wrong in the
dial
 plan, or is this a CVS change?  I had no trouble with this until I
upgraded
 to about 07/21 CVS, and I'm on 07/23 [latest] now with same results.

 My dial plan:
 [txlink]
 exten = s,1,Answer
 exten = s,2,Background(/txlink/txlink-main)
 exten = 1,1,Dial(IAX2/:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/12149490280)
 exten = 1,2,Hangup
 exten = 2,1,Dial(IAX2/:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/14693373687)
 exten = 2,2,Hangup
 exten = 3,1,Dial(IAX2/:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/18174017579)
 exten = 3,2,Hangup
 exten = 4,1,VoiceMail(s2147649296)
 exten = 4,2,Hangup
 exten = t,1,Goto(txlink,s,2)
 exten = i,1,Playback(invalid)

 [didin]
 exten = 2147649296,1,Dial(SIP/2147649296,15)
 exten = 2147649296,2,Goto(txlink,s,1)
 exten = 2147649296,3,Hangup

 Here is console output:

 -- Executing Goto(SIP/2147649296-fb41, txlink|s|1) in new stack
 -- Goto (txlink,s,1)
 -- Executing Answer(SIP/2147649296-fb41, ) in new stack
 -- Executing BackGround(SIP/2147649296-fb41, /txlink/txlink-main)
in
 new stack
 -- Playing '/txlink/txlink-main' (language 'en')
   == CDR updated on SIP/2147649296-fb41
 -- Executing VoiceMail(SIP/2147649296-fb41, s2147649296) in new
 stack
 -- Executing Hangup(SIP/2147649296-fb41, ) in new stack
   == Spawn extension (txlink, 4, 2) exited non-zero on
'SIP/2147649296-fb41'


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[Asterisk-Users] hang up when going to voicemail

2004-07-23 Thread Matthew Simpson
I have a little menu set up where hitting 1, 2, or 3 places the call through
to a cellular phone over IAX.  That works.  However, if caller hits 4 to go
into voicemail, the system hangs up.  Am I doing something wrong in the dial
plan, or is this a CVS change?  I had no trouble with this until I upgraded
to about 07/21 CVS, and I'm on 07/23 [latest] now with same results.

My dial plan:
[txlink]
exten = s,1,Answer
exten = s,2,Background(/txlink/txlink-main)
exten = 1,1,Dial(IAX2/:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/12149490280)
exten = 1,2,Hangup
exten = 2,1,Dial(IAX2/:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/14693373687)
exten = 2,2,Hangup
exten = 3,1,Dial(IAX2/:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/18174017579)
exten = 3,2,Hangup
exten = 4,1,VoiceMail(s2147649296)
exten = 4,2,Hangup
exten = t,1,Goto(txlink,s,2)
exten = i,1,Playback(invalid)

[didin]
exten = 2147649296,1,Dial(SIP/2147649296,15)
exten = 2147649296,2,Goto(txlink,s,1)
exten = 2147649296,3,Hangup

Here is console output:

-- Executing Goto(SIP/2147649296-fb41, txlink|s|1) in new stack
-- Goto (txlink,s,1)
-- Executing Answer(SIP/2147649296-fb41, ) in new stack
-- Executing BackGround(SIP/2147649296-fb41, /txlink/txlink-main) in
new stack
-- Playing '/txlink/txlink-main' (language 'en')
  == CDR updated on SIP/2147649296-fb41
-- Executing VoiceMail(SIP/2147649296-fb41, s2147649296) in new
stack
-- Executing Hangup(SIP/2147649296-fb41, ) in new stack
  == Spawn extension (txlink, 4, 2) exited non-zero on 'SIP/2147649296-fb41'

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[Asterisk-Users] Re: incoming calls on Cisco 7960

2004-07-13 Thread Matthew Simpson
From: Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED]


  [214]
  disallow=all
  allow=ulaw
  type=friend
  secret=
  host=dynamic
  nat=no
  dtmfmode=rfc2833
  canreinvite=no
  incominglimit=1
  mailbox=214

 where is the

   context=

 to send it to an incoming context?


In the general part I have context=from-sip

I don't have separate contexts for each SIP device due to the way I have
this configuration set up.

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[Asterisk-Users] incoming calls on Cisco 7960

2004-07-12 Thread Matthew Simpson
Hello list,

I have a Cisco 7960 with SIP Image 7.1.  I can make calls outgoing through
Asterisk, but I'm having problems with incoming calls from Asterisk.  The
phone is on a public IP address, no NAT, no firewall.  The phone is
registered and shows up in sip show peers.

If I place a call to the phone, Asterisk sends invites to the phone in vain,
and then gives up.  I can use my soft phone and place a call to the phone IP
to IP [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Are there any known issues with this firmware?  I'm using latest CVS, and it
also does not work with July 1 CVS.  Here is my sip.conf:

[214]
disallow=all
allow=ulaw
type=friend
secret=
host=dynamic
nat=no
dtmfmode=rfc2833
canreinvite=no
incominglimit=1
mailbox=214


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[Asterisk-Users] DISA and AGI: authenticate by caller ID? (resolved)

2004-07-02 Thread Matthew Simpson
Here is some code to do authentication by caller ID for DISA through AGI.
My original code had a bug in the Mysql query code, and there was a hangup
in the wrong place
[that's what I get for coding something at 2:00am], but the attached code
works correctly.

Take note of the REGEXP for the CallerID variable.  When I tested the code
from the PSTN
it worked because there was no name component, but it broke from SIP.  If
you're calling SIP--SIP you'll have the name in
that variable as well as the number, so I added code to snip everything but
the 10 digits.  Adjust accordingly if you have more or less
than 10 digits.  Also, I've thought of a bug already, if your caller ID name
has digits in it, it'll break the regexp.  Adjust accordingly
if that is true about your installation.

Yours,
Matthew Simpson
TxLink Communications
IAX/SIP Termination and Origination
Wholesale Dialup Services
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
972-617-2877
http://www.txlink.net

You'll need a context called ldincoming [or equivalent] for the AGI to
transfer access to DISA like:

[ldincoming]
exten = 1011,1,DISA(no-password|disa)
exten = 1011,2,Hangup

You'll need a context called disa [or equivalent] with what you want to
allow the authenticated callers to access, mine looks like:

[disa]
include = tollfree
include = localonly

and then just call the agi in your dialplan with something like:

1234,1,AGI(cidauth.agi)
1234,2,Hangup

Here is the Mysql table:

mysql describe cids;
++--+--+-+-++
| Field  | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra  |
++--+--+-+-++
| id | int(11)  |  | PRI | NULL| auto_increment |
| cid| char(10) | YES  | | NULL||
| active | int(11)  | YES  | | NULL||
++--+--+-+-++

Insert each CID into the table that you want to have access.  Active = 0 for
disabled, active = 1 for enabled.

Here is the perl code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
#

use Asterisk::AGI;
use DBI;

$db = dbname;
$host = dbhost;
$port = 3306;
$userid = dbuser;
$password = dbpass;
$connectionInfo = DBI:mysql:database=$db;$host:$port;
$dbh = DBI-connect($connectionInfo,$userid,$password);

$AGI = new Asterisk::AGI;

my %input = $AGI-ReadParse();

$AGI-answer();

if (my $callerid = $input{'callerid'}) {

$callerid =~ m/(\d{10})/;   # cut off the name
part of CID, numbers only
$callerid = $1;
$query = SELECT active FROM cids WHERE cid='$callerid';
$sth = $dbh-prepare($query);
$sth-execute();
$active = $sth-fetchrow_hashref();

 if ($active-{active})
{
$AGI-set_context('ldincoming');
$AGI-set_extension('1011');
$AGI-set_priority(1);
exit;
}
}

# if we got here, there was no match found [auth failed], so play a message
saying so
# you could also log all auth failed [with caller ID ! :) ]
# you could also transfer caller to an operator

$AGI-stream_file('invalid');
$AGI-hangup();

exit;

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[Asterisk-Users] DISA and AGI: authenticate by caller ID?

2004-07-01 Thread Matthew Simpson
I'm having trouble getting an AGI exec command to spawn app_disa.  The
script executes properly, but does not spawn DISA.  The CLI gives no helpful
clues.  Am I doing the exec incorrectly?

I want to have a way to authenticate callers to the extension by Caller
ID... if their caller ID is in my database and set to active, they can call
out.  [like a calling card but auth'd by CID instead of PIN].

Here is my dialplan:

1234, 1, agi(ldusers.agi)
1234, 2, Hangup

Here is my code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
#

use Asterisk::AGI;
use DBI;

$db = dbname;
$host = hostname;
$port = 3306;
$userid = dbuser;
$password = dpasswd;
$connectionInfo = DBI:mysql:database=$db;$host:$port;
$dbh = DBI-connect($connectionInfo,$userid,$password);


$AGI = new Asterisk::AGI;

my %input = $AGI-ReadParse();

$AGI-answer();

if (my $callerid = $input{'callerid'}) {

$AGI-say_digits($callerid);
$query = SELECT active FROM cids WHERE cid=$callerid;#
active should be 1 if the caller ID is found and set active
$sth = $dbh-prepare($query);
$sth-execute();
$sth-bind_columns(undef, \$active);
$sth-fetch();

if($active)
$AGI-exec('DISA','no-password|disa');

}

$AGI-hangup();

exit;

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hyperthreading?

2004-06-07 Thread Matthew Simpson
I have a Linux 2.6.6 box with Hyperthreading with a Digium 4 port T1 board
[TE-405P ?]   Intel P4 3.2 w/ HT and the board is an Intel 875 w/ HT
support.

So far no issues. I  did have a hard-lock six hours after first booting the
box, but so far it has been up since then [uptime 5 days 16:11], and
actually has higher load than when it locked [had no load then].

Call quality is perfect.

I will reply again to this thread if any problems do crop up.


 Message: 10
 Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 08:44:19 +0800
 From: Steve Underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hyperthreading?
 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Chris Bond wrote:

 Are they any issues still with hyperthreading processors, I've read and
been
 told by a few people to make sure its disabled in bios if I want to use *
on
 a hyperthreading machine.
 
 
 A lot of people report no problems with HT turned on, but you have to
 look at these reports carefully. A lot of people have no zaptel hardware
 in their system. That seems OK with HT on. Some people with zaptel
 hardware use it in very simple ways. That also seems OK. However, if you
 try things like setting loopback on a TE410P card with HT turned on, the
 machine locks solid. So, there are HT issues, but not everyone hits them.

 Regards,
 Steve



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[Asterisk-Users] dialplan experts needed

2004-06-07 Thread Matthew Simpson
In this dialplan, the SIP user agent is a Sipura two line adapter with line
1 as SIP ID 1000 and line 2 as SIP ID 2000.  Basically I have this set
up so that 1000 and 2000 are lines in hunting on incoming extension 555.

I want an incoming call to try to ring ext. 1000, if 1000 is busy, then ring
2000, if 2000 is also busy than ring Voicemail.  Here is what I have now and
it seems to work okay:

exten = 555,1,Dial(SIP/1000,30)
exten = 555,102,Dial(SIP/2000,30)
exten = 555,103,VoiceMail2(u3278)
exten = 555,104,Hangup
exten = 555,2,VoiceMail2(u3278)
exten = 555,3,Hangup

Is this correct?  What if there were a third SIP device 3000 ?  Would it
look like:

exten = 555,1,Dial(SIP/1000,30)
exten = 555,102,Dial(SIP/2000,30)
exten = 555,103,Dial(SIP/3000,30)
exten = 555,104,Voicemail2(u3278)
exten = 555,105,Hangup
exten = 555,2,VoiceMail2(u3278)
exten = 555,3,Hangup

That doesn't seem correct.  Also, quick note, the user does not want to have
a different busy and unavailable message, so that is why I have it set up to
always be the unavailable message for voicemail.

thanks for the help!
Matthew

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[Asterisk-Users] sip device discussion and reviews

2004-06-07 Thread Matthew Simpson
Good evening.  I just wanted to take a minute and review my experiences with
some of the SIP devices out there on the market.  I hope this post will help
newbies or someone considering a certain device.  I would appreciate any
other input on either the devices I am reviewing or other devices that I
didn't!

These devices are deployed in our primary line and small PBX replacement
service provider offering.

Hard Phone: Grandstream 101
Good: Call quality, Feature support, Ease of setup, Price, Firewall support
Bad: Buttons are crap, cheap looking, speakerphone
Price: About $60-70 US

I use this phone to do all my testing and as my personal SIP device.  My
biggest gripe of all is that if you attempt to speed-dial, you will never
succeed.  The buttons require a firm and definite press to register.  I fail
1 out of 10 calls on this device simply because one of the digits was
ignored.  On the plus side the call quality is very good and loud if you are
on the handset.  The price is right, and the phone is easy to setup.  It
also supports STUN, and plays nicely with NAT/firewalls, and has good codec
support.

The mic is too close to the speaker on speakerphone, and there is noticeable
echo if speakerphone is used.  The speakerphone is also too quiet, even at
maximum volume.  Customers call it the walmart phone -- it is the cheapest
looking SIP device out there.

Hard Phone: Cisco 7960
Good: Great looks, speakerphone
Bad: Price, Cisco stupidity
Price: About $250-300 US

I still use my personal 7960 phone in Skinny mode because it refuses to load
the SIP load that I had to PAY for from Cisco.  Cisco's directions to load
the SIP load do not work and are outdated.  After tinkering with a friend
for half a night I finally got it to load the SIP image from the TFTP
server... which it then promptly rejected with a checksum failure.   I can
handle buggy upgrades if I can access different firmwares for free, but to
pay for a firmware that won't even load?  No thanks.

The speakerphone is by far the best speakerphone I have ever had on any
phone, ever.  I use this phone when I do training conferences and meetings
that are broadcast via teleconference, and it performs like a champion.  The
phone has good looks and is definitely an eye catcher.  I have a couple of
them set up in our administrative offices as eye-candy.  The later SIP
versions work well.

ATA: Sipura SPA-2000
Good: Configuration, Functionality, Stability
Bad: Unimpressive Codec Support, Doesn't handle firewalls well
Price: About $85-95 US

Of all the SIP devices we have in the field, we have the most in Sipura
SPA-2000s.  The configuration is clean and straightforward.  The Sipura
definitely has the functionality that we need, and all features and
functions seem to work well, and properly.  The units are stable and do not
need constant rebooting or maintenance.Built in echo cancelation works
well.

Unfortuantely, the lack of any decent low bit-rate codec is making me look
hard at the Handytone 286/486 units [they support iLBC].  The code in my
Sipura's does not support GSM or iLBC.  They also do not handle firewalls
well at all.  NAT support seems to work okay with Register's set frequently,
but with no Stun support [they may have added Stun support in later firmware
releases], real firewalls can interfere with the device receiving incoming
calls.

Soft Phone: SJ Phone by SJ Labs
Good: Interface
Bad: Configuration, No Echo Cancelation
Price: Free to Try

I've installed and quickly uninstalled many soft phones, but the SJ Phone
stays on my test machine.  The interface is clean and works well.

Unfortuantely, the SJ phone is not very straightforward to configure the
service provider information with its nested profile setup.  There is also
no echo cancelation code.  I can't blame the SJ Phone for the echo, it's
caused by a cheap sound card interface in my laptop, but it would sure be
nice to find a soft phone that would help me attempt to cancel it out.  The
sound controls on the SJ phone are also poor, which exacerbates the echo
problem.

Interface Card: Digium TE-405P
Good: Price, Intel-based, Features
Bad: ???
Price: $1500

Not really a SIP device, but I am very pleased with the TE-405P's that we
have been buying from Digium.  We interface them with our PRI and CT1
circuits and they are working without any problems.  The price is right,
they work with Linux, and they support every form of T1/E1 out there.  What
more could one ask for?

Coming soon: Review of Cisco ATA-186 [if I can ever get it to work
correctly] and the Grandstream Handytone 486 [have some on the way].





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Re: [Asterisk-Users] miserable time with Cisco ATA186

2004-06-04 Thread Matthew Simpson
If I turn allow=ulaw on only, asterisk tries to use it

a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000

but the ATA says it doesn't have it:

Answering/Requesting with root capability 4
Answering with non-codec capability 0x1(G723)

If I turn allow=alaw on only or with allow=ulaw, asterisk sends it, the ATA
says it has it [alaw], but it still won't negotiate it.

I think the stupid ATA is just determined to use G723 no matter what... I
have LBRCodec set to 3 which should have it try to use G729, but it still
tries to use G723.  The AudioMode setting has a parameter bit to Enable
G711 only, but I'm not sure how that bit thing works.  Either the default
0x00150015 or the recommended 0x00140014 fails.  [btw, bit 1 should be 1
to enable G711 only, if someone can help me there].

I'm seriously about to punt this thing into the garbage.

Help!

thanks,
matt

 From: Timothy R. McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] miserable time with Cisco ATA186
 Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 00:04:22 -0400
 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Noticed that he has ALAW set as the preferred codec on the ATA.  I'd
suggest
 testing with allow of ulaw only, then try turning on other codecs.  We
know
 that one works well.



 
 Timothy R. McKee


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Wieling
 Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 23:36
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] miserable time with Cisco ATA186

 Perhaps, but *I* at least had decent luck with 2.16.1.  I suspect he has
 allow=all and the codec that ends up being used is G723.1 and then, of
 course, everything goes to hell.


 On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 22:59, brian k. west wrote:
  because 2.16.1 has some bugs.. you need 2.16.2 or higher.
 
  bkw
 

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] miserable time with Cisco ATA 186

2004-06-04 Thread Matthew Simpson
think I figured out the binary bit thing, so I am posting to list to
hopefully help someone else out

bits 15-8 are all 0 and are reserved

bit 7:value 0:numeric 8   reserved
bit 6:value 0:numeric 4   reserved
bit 5:value 0:numeric 2   dtmfmethod
bit 4:value 1:numeric 1   dtmfmethod

bit 3:value 0:numeric 8   [CNG fax tone]
bit 2:value 0:numeric 4   [CED fax tone]
bit 1:value 1:numeric 2   [g711 codec only: 1 true 0 false]
bit 0:value 0:numeric 1   [silence suppression 1 on 0 off]

so that makes 0012 for each line, or 0x00120012




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[Asterisk-Users] miserable time with Cisco ATA186

2004-06-03 Thread Matthew Simpson
I'm having a horrible experience getting a Cisco ATA-186 to work with *.

I can make calls from the ATA with no problems.  However, incoming calls
make the ATA ring once, and then the call is disconnected.  I have no
problems with my Sipura 2000 or my Grandstream phones.

I am running 2.16.1 sip code on the ATA 186.  Neither * nor the ATA is
behind a NAT.  They are both on public IP addresses right next to each other
on the same subnet.

SIP Debug shows [munged being the IP address]:

Answering/Requesting with root capability 4
Answering with preferred capability 0x8(ALAW)
Answering with capability 0x1(G723)
Answering with capability 0x2(GSM)
Answering with capability 0x10(G726)
Answering with capability 0x20(ADPCM)
Answering with capability 0x40(SLINR)
Answering with capability 0x80(LPC10)
Answering with capability 0x100(G729A)
Answering with capability 0x200(SPEEX)
Answering with capability 0x400(ILBC)
Answering with capability 0x800(UNKN)
Answering with capability 0x1000(UNKN)
Answering with capability 0x2000(UNKN)
Answering with capability 0x4000(UNKN)
Answering with capability 0x8000(UNKN)
Answering with non-codec capability 0x1(G723)
12 headers, 20 lines
Reliably Transmitting:
INVITE sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIP/2.0
Via: SIP/2.0/UDP munged:0;branch=z9hG4bK304da88f
From: munged
To: munged
Contact: munged
Call-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CSeq: 102 INVITE
User-Agent: Asterisk PBX
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 02:26:41 GMT
Allow: INVITE, ACK, CANCEL, OPTIONS, BYE, REFER
Content-Type: application/sdp
Content-Length: 461

v=0
o=root 284 284 IN IP4 munged
s=session
c=IN IP4 munged
t=0 0
m=audio 14466 RTP/AVP 0 8 4 3 2 5 10 7 18 110 97 101
a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000
a=rtpmap:8 PCMA/8000
a=rtpmap:4 G723/8000
a=rtpmap:3 GSM/8000
a=rtpmap:2 G726-32/8000
a=rtpmap:5 DVI4/8000
a=rtpmap:10 L16/8000
a=rtpmap:7 LPC/8000
a=rtpmap:18 G729/8000
a=rtpmap:110 SPEEX/8000
a=rtpmap:97 iLBC/8000
a=rtpmap:101 telephone-event/8000
a=fmtp:101 0-16
a=silenceSupp:off - - - -


This Retransmits several times and then the call is scheduled for
destruction.  The CANCEL sip messages seem to fail also, as they are
retransmitted many times.  I'm running the ATA conf from:
http://www.fnords.org/~eric/asterisk/ata-186.shtml

Any ideas?

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[Asterisk-Users] free sip termination

2004-06-01 Thread Matthew Simpson
help me test load a box!

I have a new box with four PRIs on a TE405P

I will terminate US Toll-free traffic (1-800, 888, 877, 866) for free via
SIP to anyone who wants to test.  Just email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you
would, to let me know that you're testing, and with any comments about
quality,
etc.

I have ulaw, alaw, and GSM codecs enabled.

To use, just send your call via SIP to 67.153.209.214 with the username of
free secret free

yours,
Matthew Simpson
TxLink Communications
972-617-2877
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Wiki TOS - worrying for an open source project?

2004-05-28 Thread Matthew Simpson
 From: Steven Critchfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 The other part is that a wiki is really unmirrorable using normal
 methods of mirroring a site. You need to just run the same software and
 have the database behind it mirrored. I'm sure if the wiki is running a
 new enough version of mysql, and the admin is willing, you could set up
 a mirror of the database and then set up a full on replication. Mysql
 supposedly supports replication, might want to put it to some use.
 -- 

I don't know who is hosting the Wiki right now, but we are willing to either
host the Wiki as a mirror, or be a mysql replication mirror.  We are using
mysql replication
right now to replicate amongst three servers for our RADIUS and other hosted
apps and it works
very well.

We also do daily backups of the master mysql server to an offsite
location.

We would do this free of charge, of course.  We are using asterisk as a
media
gateway with Digiums TE405P cards and we appreciate the work that is going
into Asterisk.

Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 972-617-2877

yours,
Matthew Simpson
TxLink Communications

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[Asterisk-Users] strange problem with SIP/voicemail

2004-04-19 Thread Matthew Simpson
I'm having a very strange problem I've been fighting with all day.  It's
2:30am, and I'm stuck.  I think the problem may lie with one of my SIP
providers, but I'm not sure.

I have two ways to call into my test Grandstream.  I can call a PSTN 360
area code number that will forward to my FWD number, which in turn is
registered with my * box on extension 2030.  If I call the 360 number,
everything works, my Grandstream rings, and if I don't answer, it goes to
voicemail and voicemail works.

I also have a PSTN 972 area code number that forwards directly to my * box.
If I call the 972 number, my Grandstream will ring, but if I don't answer,
it will give me silence for a bit, then I hear a click, my CLI interface
says that it is recording a message, but then it says:

Apr 19 02:21:20 WARNING[15373]: app_voicemail.c:1261 play_and_record: No
audio available on SIP/66.147.170.34-0811abe8??

Here is my exten map [actual phone number munged].  I have removed the
Grandstream from the exten for this example.  It makes no difference whether
the Grandstream gets rang or not:

exten = 9725551212,1,Answer
exten = 9725551212,2,Voicemail2(u1000)
exten = 9725551212,3,Hangup

Also, just for testing, I have added this extension:

exten = 2501,1,Voicemail2(u1000)
exten = 2501,2,Hangup

If I dial 2501 from my grandstream, voicemail works that way, too.

My questions:

1) Should I have the Answer in there or not?  It doesn't help to add or
remove it.  On the FWD number, I do not have an Answer.

2) I can get voicemail to work on the incoming 972 number if I change the
dialplan around and then do a restart gracefully.  Example:

exten = 9725551212,1,Answer
exten = 9725551212,2,Playback(transfer)
exten = 9725551212,3,Voicemail2(u1000)
exten = 9725551212,4,Hangup

It will work once, maybe twice, and then it won't work any more after that
until I fiddle with the dialplan again and do another restart.  On Saturday
when I thought I had all of this working, I dialed in at least ten times and
had no problems.

I originally was running a CVS from 03-14-04 now I am running 04-19-04, and
still have the same issue.

Anyone?

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[Asterisk-Users] what is the best codec for low bandwidth? for quality?

2003-10-22 Thread Matthew Simpson
The number of codecs is overwhelming to me.

What do ya'll consider the best codec for conserving bandwidth? [I realize
at the cost of quality]

Secondly, what do you think the best codec for voice quality is?

Yours,
Matthew

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