[Asterisk-Users] Problems registering Linksys SPA941 with * via SIP

2006-04-10 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi all, Having trouble registering Linksys SPA941 with our * box. We can't find an entry in the config screens to allow us to put the IP address of the SIP server (i.e. the * box) in. We can find an entry for a SIP proxy in the phones set up, but we're not using one (SIP connections are

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Static on inside end of conversation

2005-11-29 Thread Damian Funnell
if this is what is causing your issues or not, but hopefully it will help if it is. Cheers, Damian Funnell. FFF Managed Technology Ltd. 60 Cook St P.O. 6368 Wellesley St Auckland t +64 9 356 2911 f +64 9 358 9070 m +64 21 415 297 w www.fff.co.nz Quoting Health Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We

Re: [Asterisk-Users] ip phones

2005-11-28 Thread Damian Funnell
Polycom make some surprisingly good and reasonably priced SIP handsets too. Many of these support headsets and we've been quite impressed by them. FFF Managed Technology Ltd. 60 Cook St P.O. 6368 Wellesley St Auckland t +64 9 356 2911 f +64 9 358 9070 m +64 21 415 297 w www.fff.co.nz

[Asterisk-Users] Remote call pick-up

2005-10-04 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi, Does anyone have remote call pick-up working on * (either via SIP or otherwise)? If so then can you post your features.conf, sip.conf and/or zapata.conf? We can't seem to get this (seemingly simple) function to work. Cheers, Damian. ___

[Asterisk-Users] Remote call pick-up

2005-10-01 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi, Does anyone have remote call pick-up working on * (either via SIP or otherwise)? If so then can you post your features.conf, sip.conf and/or zapata.conf? We can't seem to get this (seemingly simple) function to work. Cheers, Damian. -- FFF Managed Technology Ltd 60 Cook St P.O. 6368

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Variable in call parking

2005-09-29 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi Andrew, Not sure if I understand your question, but this may help - * has the following settings in features.conf that are related to parking: parkext = ;the extension that users xfer calls to in order to park them parkpos = - ;the extension range that * will use to park

Re: [Asterisk-Users] zttest - 100% ?

2005-09-29 Thread Damian Funnell
Have you checked that the TDM400P isn't sharing an IRQ with anything else? Don't trust /proc/interrupts - run lspci -v to confirm this. We have * running on an x206 and found that the only way to stop the TDP400P sharing an IRQ with other devices was to juggle cards between slots. Hope this

[Asterisk-Users] Remote call pickup

2005-09-28 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi, Has anyone got sample sip.conf, features.conf and zapata.conf files that they can send me that demonstrate a working remote pick-up config? We can't seem to get it working at one of our sites - have changed the remote pick-up extension so it doesn't conflict with the SIP phones redial

Re: [Asterisk-Users] zttest

2005-05-16 Thread Damian Funnell
, Waldo On May 16, 2005, at 12:59 AM, Damian Funnell wrote: Hi Waldo, it really depends on who you ask - Digium say that anything less than 99.99% is going to result in problems, but ours regularly runs at around 99.98% and we don't have any problems. One of our boxes was running at around 99.96

Re: [Asterisk-Users] zttest

2005-05-16 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi Rich, This is always a BIOS setting - there is no O/S command to disable H/T. To date I have never heard of a BIOS that does not allow the user to disable H/T, but I have read that there are BIOS'es out there that don't offer this function. Go into your BIOS setup screen and you should

Re: [Asterisk-Users] zttest

2005-05-16 Thread Damian Funnell
...Jens makes a liar out of me, although I read that the 'noht' switch stops the OS from using H/T but doesn't disable it completely. I make no warranties regarding the accuracy of this information, though. D. FFF Managed Technology Ltd 60 Cook St P.O. 6368 Wellesley St Auckland t +64 9 356

Re: [Asterisk-Users] zttest

2005-05-16 Thread Damian Funnell
Rich, did you check IRQ's? Our zttest results didn't improve markedly when we did either change (IRQ's or H/T), but the problem went away regardless. Other than that Digium have recommended throwing out our SCSI320 RAID hardware and replacing it with IDE (i.e. not SATA) kit, although

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Static on TDM Zaptel FXO

2005-05-16 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi Gregory, Have you checked that the card is on its own IRQ? There has been a bit of discussion about this type of thing recently on the list, do a search on the archive to find the various threads. Try running zttest and see what accuracy it is reporting - anything less than 99.99% is

Re: [Asterisk-Users] zttest

2005-05-15 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi Waldo, it really depends on who you ask - Digium say that anything less than 99.99% is going to result in problems, but ours regularly runs at around 99.98% and we don't have any problems. One of our boxes was running at around 99.96% and we had major issues with the voice quality packing

[Asterisk-Users] Something every TDMP user should know

2005-05-12 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi team, Not long ago a bunch of us were posting reports of a strange phenomenon where voice quality would pack up completely from time to time, typically resulting in loud crackling on the line and/or the voice channel breaking up completely. With our installation it would occur from time to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best CPU config for dual-Xeon?

2005-05-12 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi Tony, check out my recent post regarding our experiences with Hyperthreading and * with Zaptel cards. We have a few machines in the wild that *do* run Hyperthreading but no Zaptel cards and these work absolutely fine. My understanding is that the Hyperthreading problems are purely related

[Asterisk-Users] SNOM190 DTMF problem

2005-05-12 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi all, We've got a problem where a bunch of SNOM 190 phones that we have just installed are giving us problems with DTMF tones. Users of all phones reported that when they access voicemail the VM app is not recognising DTMF tones. One clever user figured out that they DO work if you hold the

[Asterisk-Users] [Fwd: Call forwarding]

2005-05-04 Thread Damian Funnell
Any takers? Sometimes the most basic questions yield the least replies, huh? Cheers, Damian. Original Message Subject: Call forwarding Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 08:40:41 +1200 From: Damian Funnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion

[Asterisk-Users] Call forwarding

2005-05-03 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi team, Basic question I know, but I can't seem to find any obvious information about this: Does anyone know if * natively supports call forwarding from a given extension (i.e. call forwarding without having to write a macro)? My user wants to be able to dial a code plus a phone number to

[Asterisk-Users] Delete voicemail

2005-04-28 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi all, Does anyone know what the easiest way is to delete voicemail for one extension? Had a search online but couldn't find anything. Cheers, Damian. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com

Re: [Asterisk-Users] US$200 bounty for * paging feature

2005-04-20 Thread Damian Funnell
I agree - you guys really shouldn't be wasting our bandwidth unless it's important. What were you thinking? trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote: On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 22:14 -0500, Dan Perik wrote: Michael D Schelin wrote: Ok you guys enough. The debate will go on forever.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] TDM400P and SCSI/SATA = * noise problems???

2005-04-19 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi Tim, Thanks for your post, it's most insightful. It certainly puts a pretty large dent in my confidence in the TDM for commercial use - imagine if there was more than one TDM in a system (especially with a RAID adapter). Running a PABX without hardware RAID 0 is not an option for us, as we

[Asterisk-Users] TDM400P and SCSI/SATA = * noise problems???

2005-04-18 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi everyone, For anyone who was following the earlier thread about noise problems on *, here's a little gem from Digium support. In a nutshell Digium told us that they thought that low accuracy results from zttest were the cause of noise problems that we have been experiencing. We

Re: [Asterisk-Users] extension dialing resistivity

2005-04-17 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi Joseph, Let me take a guess - the problem only occurs when dialling four digit extensions? I think you will find that your dial plan is matching the three digit extension and then dialling it straight away - Asterisk won't wait for a timeout before trying to follow the dial plan, as soon as

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Changing IRQ's on TDM

2005-04-16 Thread Damian Funnell
. Bryan Boatright wrote: Is the APIC and IO-APIC enabled? Send us 'cat /proc/interrupts' and your /var/log/boot.msg (or your distro's equivalent bootup log). Damian Funnell wrote: Hi all, I've found that a TDM400P card in our * box is sharing IRQ's with two other

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Line Noise HELP!

2005-04-16 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi, For those that were having the same line noise problem that we were, an update: * Our TDM400P *was* sharing an IRQ, despite the output from 'cat /proc/interrupts' showing that it wasn't. Running 'lspci -v' showed that it was and we had to perform some card juggling to get

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Ring two extensions at the same time

2005-04-14 Thread Damian Funnell
The following dial string dials both extensions - this has worked for SIP and analogue extensions on our Asterisk machines. Both extensions ring until one is answered: exten = s,3,Dial(SIP/9295SIP/9287,,t,) FFF Managed Technology Ltd 60 Cook St P.O. 6368 Wellesley St Auckland t +64 9 356 2911

Re: [Asterisk-Users] distribute outbound calls

2005-04-14 Thread Damian Funnell
Rotate or make sure the line you are dialling out on isn't in use before you try and use it? Lookup setgroup/checkgroup on the Wiki if it's the latter - http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+cmd+SetGroup Allows you to create logical groups for just about anything, check whether the groups

[Asterisk-Users] Has anyone had problems with Digium TDM400P and hyperthreading?

2005-04-14 Thread Damian Funnell
Digium have told us that a problem that we are having (with accuracy of zap interface as measured using zttest) may be due to the fact that we have a Xeon processor with hyperthreading and have suggested turning H/T off. Anyone else experienced a problem like this? No too keen about turning

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Busy line status and chan_capi?

2005-04-13 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi Kib, What exactly is it that you want to do? If you have a direct dial-in (DDI) number that goes to a certain extension then you can handle this pretty easily in your dial plan - check out this snippet below from one of our customers' machines. This example is pretty basic, but it works

Re: [Asterisk-Users] ISDN Fritz and TDM400

2005-04-13 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi Robson, We are using a 4 port Eicon Diva Pro BRI ISDN with a TDM400P with four FXO ports. We are using CAPI with the TDM400P and everything works fine most of the time. We are having periodic problems where the call quality completely falls apart for all in-progress calls and we have yet

[Asterisk-Users] Changing IRQ's on TDM

2005-04-13 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi all, I've found that a TDM400P card in our * box is sharing IRQ's with two other devices. The server doesn't support assigning IRQ's through the BIOS and the pig only has three PCI slots, so swapping cards between slots hasn't fixed the problem (it just ends up sharing IRQ's with other

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Line Noise HELP!

2005-04-12 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi Rich, Hear your point about the trace and all, will try and figure something out. Will also look at logging debug messages. We did the unthinkable and purchased a support incident through Digium and they have zeroed in on the zttest output, as per the info below (I've pasted in an excerpt

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Running asterisk without special hardware

2005-04-12 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi Manish, Sure can, although you will need a timing source. If you don't plan to have any Digium hardware then you can use ztdummy (see http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+timer+ztdummy), which we have never used personally, but have yet to hear bad things about. D. FFF Managed

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Setgroup Checkgroup

2005-04-11 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi Ronald, We use SetGroup/CheckGroup and your syntax appears to be fine (either that or ours is broken too, but it seems to work ok!) One question - what lines do you have in priority 1 - 3? We found that our dial plan would not work unless the first priority (for all extensions) was 1 and

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Setgroup Checkgroup

2005-04-11 Thread Damian Funnell
to zero - we have a total of four SetGroups and these are set and checked extensively through our dial plan and they work fine. Ronald Wiplinger wrote: Damian Funnell wrote: Hi Ronald, We use SetGroup/CheckGroup and your syntax appears to be fine (either that or ours is broken too, but it seems

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Line Noise HELP!

2005-04-11 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi Paul, there was a thread yesterday in regards to a few of us experiencing a very similar problem - a problem that (if the same for all of us), doesn't seem to have been properly diagnosed yet. One thing that appeared to be common to all of us was the version of Asterisk that we are running

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Line Noise HELP!

2005-04-11 Thread Damian Funnell
phone and test it to see if its the phone. Let me know if you come up with any ideas. Paul From: Damian Funnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 12:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Line Noise HELP!

2005-04-11 Thread Damian Funnell
!!! - Andre -Original Message- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of *Damian Funnell *Sent:* Monday, April 11, 2005 3:08 PM *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion *Subject:* Re: [Asterisk-Users

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Line Noise HELP!

2005-04-11 Thread Damian Funnell
Thanks for that Rich. Etheral trace is going to be almost impossible for various reasons, but will try the other two options. Can't find much online re. debugging - any chance of killing the box by turning this on? SIP show channels and the various CAPI show commands do not show anything out

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Terrible crackling on analogue line and X100P card

2005-04-10 Thread Damian Funnell
Rich Adamson - would appreciate your advice as well, as your mail is the closest I have seen to a knowledgeable response so far in regards to this crackling issue. I have a customer who has a very similar crackling problem and to date we have suspected it to be the ISDN BRI adapter and/or

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Terrible crackling on analogue line and X100P card

2005-04-09 Thread Damian Funnell
I have a very similar problem that I have been grappling with for a while. I've got a genuine TDM400P with four FXS ports and am using an Eicon Server quad BRI ISDN (using CAPI) for external calls. To date we have had no luck at all in diagnosing this problem as we too have periodic problems

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Terrible crackling on analogue line and X100P card

2005-04-09 Thread Damian Funnell
Forgot to mention - we are using an IBM xSeries 206 Server, so the Dell riser card may not be the issue if we are having the same problem. FFF Managed Technology Ltd 60 Cook St P.O. 6368 Wellesley St Auckland t +64 9 356 2911 f +64 9 358 9070 m +64 21 415 297 w www.fff.co.nz Damian Funnell

Re: [Asterisk-Users] How does asterisk know the did called on?

2005-04-02 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi Courtney, This really depends on the type of channel you are using. We use CAPI with one of our customers and they have ten DID's (DDI's in NZ) and use four BRI lines. Here is a snippet from their extensions.conf that shows how it dials certain extensions based on the number dialled. The

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Installing CAPI

2005-03-31 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi there, We recently did our first * install with CAPI and we found the levels of support (and general knowledge) within the community seriously wanting. In fact, we found things so bad that I would caution against using CAPI unless you are feeling particularly game and confident in your

[Asterisk-Users] External voice channels pack up

2005-03-29 Thread Damian Funnell
suspected problem was to do with BT102's (i.e. SIP handsets), but problem has since occurred with analogue phones as well. Appreciate any help with this, as source of problem not immediately apparent and customer patience wearing pretty thin. Cheers, Damian Funnell

[Asterisk-Users] CAPI questions

2005-03-07 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi all, I have two questions regarding CAPI. Excuse the fact that they are very 'newbie' in nature, but the CAPI documentation is wafer thin! Firstly I have four BRI adapters (all trunks and controlled by CAPI) in my * box and I would like to know whether I can group these together for

Re: [Asterisk-Users] CAPI questions

2005-03-07 Thread Damian Funnell
Thanks Elmar. I assume it is up to the carrier to determine the MSN for each connection? D. FFF Managed Technology Ltd 60 Cook St P.O. 6368 Wellesley St Auckland t +64 9 356 2911 f +64 9 358 9070 m +64 21 415 297 w www.fff.co.nz Elmar Haneke wrote: Lastly, my capi.conf (as below) only

[Asterisk-Users] CAPI trunks

2005-03-07 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi all, Can anyone help me with a CAPI problem that I am having. I've got one BRI trunk (will have 4 when it goes into production) and when one of the B channels is in use (i.e. there is an incoming/outgoing call in progress) I can't get Asterisk to answer the other ringing B channel

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Recommended Phone for beginner

2005-03-07 Thread Damian Funnell
Hi Ryan, I've used the BudgetTone 101 on several accounts and they certainly aren't the best phone on the market, but they have so far been reliable (touch wood) and are pretty straightforward to set up. Call quality would probably rate at a 8 out of 10 on these phones, but that's not much