Re: [Asterisk-Users] Mediatrix 1204 help please.
On 12/16/05, Rich Adamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK we need some help in setting up a good wiki-info page for setting up the Mediatrix 1204 to work with asterisk. If anyone has set these unit's up and have them working please post your settings here so we can create a page on the wiki. These unit's are being sold to be used via sip format with asterisk and there is no real information on getting them working. At present there one of the worst I have run into to get correctly working. These are very expensive and some of us can't afford to send them back for a restocking fee. If someone working with Mediatrix has a white paper on getting these unit's working please let us know the link for it. It would be very helpful for many asterisk users. If you search the -users archives, you'll see where a couple of people have made them work. I believe there was at least one posting reflecting a working config. I did an eval on the 1204 in early 2004, but did not care for the way it interfaced with asterisk. The 1204 was really intended to interoperate with the 1104 as a toll bypass box. I was able to make it work and the audio was excellent with no echo whatsoever. Key items (in early 2004) included: - the 1204 does not have any sip register functions. One must configure it (and asterisk) to work with static IP addresses (instead of relying on the registration process). - calls from asterisk to (or through) the 1204 are treated as a group and the 1204 chooses the first available pstn port for all calls. If you want to direct a call to a specific port, one has to jump through hoops to force a CallerID (from asterisk) and then program 1204 to look for the callerid (which is then used to match a port number). Not cool. - programming the 1204 could only be done via snmp, and the snmp facility provided only ran on Windows. Each firmware upgrade to the 1204 required a new snmp implementation as the mib variables constantly changed. The snmp community string (eg, password) could not be changed from public, therefore exposing the 1204 to the internet would be a major security risk. (If you know snmp extemely well, you can use the mib definitions within a linux system to program the box, but you better be very good at snmp to do that.) They now support a limited set of things that could be programmed via http. - Support for the box is only offered through resellers, and their typical resellers are those firms reselling traditional pbx's. A fair number of those don't have a clue what voip is about and even fewer can spell asterisk. I thought they teach you how to spell asterisk in 4th grade math? :) - All firmware upgrades are chargable regardless of what problem might be found. The upgrade charge was very high (something like $500 in 2004). Given the above (in 2004), the risk associated with using the 1204 was far to great and I returned the unit for full credit. (The eval was arranged through Mediaxtix sales rep even though the unit came from a reseller.) I've not touched or seen the 1204 since early 2004, so can't help any more then what is stated above. The product may have improved since then, but I don't have clue what might have changed. I have set it up many times now, but each time I have to do that, it takes around an hour, which is a very long time for me compared to an Adit or Sipura, but because of the quality of the box (sound is very good) I still use it. Each time I do it I just go thru the SNMP settings one by one, and set/change what I think/know is needed, then test it to make sure it works as I want. It would take me an extra hour to write it down and post on the wiki, but I'll try to do it next time anyhow, that way it might save me some time in the future as well :) ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[Asterisk-Users] Mediatrix 1204 help please.
OK we need some help in setting up a good wiki-info page for setting up the Mediatrix 1204 to work with asterisk. If anyone has set these unit's up and have them working please post your settings here so we can create a page on the wiki. These unit's are being sold to be used via sip format with asterisk and there is no real information on getting them working. At present there one of the worst I have run into to get correctly working. These are very expensive and some of us can't afford to send them back for a restocking fee. If someone working with Mediatrix has a white paper on getting these unit's working please let us know the link for it. It would be very helpful for many asterisk users. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] Mediatrix 1204 help please.
Ariel, There are some notes in the list archives about getting them going. -Nate -Original Message- From: Ariel Batista [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 9:04 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Mediatrix 1204 help please. OK we need some help in setting up a good wiki-info page for setting up the Mediatrix 1204 to work with asterisk. If anyone has set these unit's up and have them working please post your settings here so we can create a page on the wiki. These unit's are being sold to be used via sip format with asterisk and there is no real information on getting them working. At present there one of the worst I have run into to get correctly working. These are very expensive and some of us can't afford to send them back for a restocking fee. If someone working with Mediatrix has a white paper on getting these unit's working please let us know the link for it. It would be very helpful for many asterisk users. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Mediatrix 1204 help please.
OK we need some help in setting up a good wiki-info page for setting up the Mediatrix 1204 to work with asterisk. If anyone has set these unit's up and have them working please post your settings here so we can create a page on the wiki. These unit's are being sold to be used via sip format with asterisk and there is no real information on getting them working. At present there one of the worst I have run into to get correctly working. These are very expensive and some of us can't afford to send them back for a restocking fee. If someone working with Mediatrix has a white paper on getting these unit's working please let us know the link for it. It would be very helpful for many asterisk users. If you search the -users archives, you'll see where a couple of people have made them work. I believe there was at least one posting reflecting a working config. I did an eval on the 1204 in early 2004, but did not care for the way it interfaced with asterisk. The 1204 was really intended to interoperate with the 1104 as a toll bypass box. I was able to make it work and the audio was excellent with no echo whatsoever. Key items (in early 2004) included: - the 1204 does not have any sip register functions. One must configure it (and asterisk) to work with static IP addresses (instead of relying on the registration process). - calls from asterisk to (or through) the 1204 are treated as a group and the 1204 chooses the first available pstn port for all calls. If you want to direct a call to a specific port, one has to jump through hoops to force a CallerID (from asterisk) and then program 1204 to look for the callerid (which is then used to match a port number). Not cool. - programming the 1204 could only be done via snmp, and the snmp facility provided only ran on Windows. Each firmware upgrade to the 1204 required a new snmp implementation as the mib variables constantly changed. The snmp community string (eg, password) could not be changed from public, therefore exposing the 1204 to the internet would be a major security risk. (If you know snmp extemely well, you can use the mib definitions within a linux system to program the box, but you better be very good at snmp to do that.) - Support for the box is only offered through resellers, and their typical resellers are those firms reselling traditional pbx's. A fair number of those don't have a clue what voip is about and even fewer can spell asterisk. - All firmware upgrades are chargable regardless of what problem might be found. The upgrade charge was very high (something like $500 in 2004). Given the above (in 2004), the risk associated with using the 1204 was far to great and I returned the unit for full credit. (The eval was arranged through Mediaxtix sales rep even though the unit came from a reseller.) I've not touched or seen the 1204 since early 2004, so can't help any more then what is stated above. The product may have improved since then, but I don't have clue what might have changed. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
