Re: [asterisk-users] alarm POTS lines

2010-12-04 Thread Tammy A Wisdom
You all do know that this is something you could be sued for since this is 
'life safety equipment' ?  I've heard from multiple sources that if it isn't 
against the nfpa that it will be very soon
Ask yourself if you want to be subject to a lawsuit if someones house is 
robbed, someone dies, house/business burns down and the alarm panel is unable 
to communicate?  Ask your insurance rep if they will cover you doing this type 
of voip stuff and they'll most likely tell you not too. Bottom line is this is 
NOT a smart thing to put on voip. 
Tammy

Tammy A Wisdom
Summit Open Source Development Group


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On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Jeff LaCoursiere j...@sunfone.com wrote:

 Hi,

 I've brought this up in the past and there was a good discussion - am
 wondering if there have been any new developments.

 Our dialtone service, like I am sure is true for most ITSPs, touts the
 ability to drop your POTs lines for significant savings.  For businesses
 we have a low-cost Atom based PBX and a fax relay setup locally with
 hylafax/iaxmodem to solve that issue, and it is working very well.  We
 don't however, have a solution for their alarm lines.

 The problem is of course that modem calls over VoIP are flaky at best.
 Even though these alarm calls are low baud rate, when we test with the
 alarm company we only pass about 30% of the time (ulaw from customer site
 to our central switch, then out a T1).  To be fair there is no QoS on
 their Internet links yet, and that certainly plays a role.

 But it seems to me that there should be a solution much like our fax
 relay, where we literally accept the fax call over the local LAN, produce
 a PDF file, transfer it to the central switch which then dials it back out
 over a T1.  In that case the only modem over VoIP is on their local LAN,
 which has performed well for us.

 I would love to see a DSP modem that could answer an asterisk channel,
 send the data stream over TCP to some remote asterisk, which could then
 relay the stream by making an outbound DSP modem call on a PSTN trunk.
 Has anyone attempted anything like this?

 As an aside, since the recent thread on Seagate Dockstar installs, I have
 several running.  This would be the perfect platform for the relay on
 the customer end, being so ridiculously cheap (I bought three for $30
 each, plus 3 $10 4G USB sticks).

 So hoping this will spark some comments on the concept in general, and
 really hoping someone has actually tackled something similar.  It could
 open up a nice niche for even residential customers with expensive POTS
 lines dedicated to alarm systems.

 Cheers,


 --

 Jeff LaCoursiere
 SunFone
 j...@sunfone.com


Alarm panel communication, at least with Ademco, is done only with
DTMF. When I tested the Asterisk AlarmReceiver application I found
that the DTMF tones were so short they weren't always recognized by my
ATA in RFC 2833 mode. Changing it to inband DTMF worked better, but
then I was having issues with the AlarmReceiver application.  Have a
look at the below link, which touches on alarm panel communicates.

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+AlarmReceiver

Since the communication is done with short DTMF it only takes a few
seconds once the remote end answers to relay the message. This is not
the same as modem communication when sending a fax.

At least for alarm communication the solution would be an ATA that can
correctly recognize and translate the DTMF to RFC 2833. Then it is up
to the remote end to correctly translate this back to DTMF to send
over the T1. The below link explains the different DTMF modes
supported by Asterisk.

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+sip+dtmfmode

Ryan

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Re: [asterisk-users] alarm POTS lines

2010-12-04 Thread jon pounder
On 12/04/2010 03:01 AM, Tammy A Wisdom wrote:
 You all do know that this is something you could be sued for since this is 
 'life safety equipment' ?  I've heard from multiple sources that if it isn't 
 against the nfpa that it will be very soon
 Ask yourself if you want to be subject to a lawsuit if someones house is 
 robbed, someone dies, house/business burns down and the alarm panel is unable 
 to communicate?  Ask your insurance rep if they will cover you doing this 
 type of voip stuff and they'll most likely tell you not too. Bottom line is 
 this is NOT a smart thing to put on voip.
 Tammy

 Tammy A Wisdom
 Summit Open Source Development Group


nfpa only applies where nfpa is actually a requirement, ANYTHING anyone 
does that is not required (residential fire and burglar alarm) is better 
than the alternative of nothing at all. Calling yourself a ulc certified 
monitoring center or something like that is a no no if you don't meet 
those requirements, but selling a service as what it is, is perfectly 
fine, if you are not guaranteeing something you can't provide you are in 
the clear.

All that aside things are moving to direct tcp/ip communication, using 
voip to talk to antiquated monitoring equipment is just an interim fix 
as the consumer end technology is moving faster than the central station 
technology. The argument voip is unreliable compared to pots really is 
not true if everything is setup properly. tcp/ip and anything that lives 
on top of that protocol like voip etc., has much more flexible routing 
and failover than any pots circuit could ever hope to have, and can use 
multiple independant paths for communication, and the connection can be 
held open like a dvacs circuit for continuous monitoring without all the 
overhead of individual copper pairs and multiplexers at the monitoring 
center.  Its hard for the manufacturers of this equipment to stomach 
though that a pc with a network card is actually more functional than a 
multimillion dollar piece of hardware they used to sell, so change is 
slow coming.





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 Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] alarm POTS lines

 On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Jeff LaCoursierej...@sunfone.com  wrote:

 Hi,

 I've brought this up in the past and there was a good discussion - am
 wondering if there have been any new developments.

 Our dialtone service, like I am sure is true for most ITSPs, touts the
 ability to drop your POTs lines for significant savings.  For businesses
 we have a low-cost Atom based PBX and a fax relay setup locally with
 hylafax/iaxmodem to solve that issue, and it is working very well.  We
 don't however, have a solution for their alarm lines.

 The problem is of course that modem calls over VoIP are flaky at best.
 Even though these alarm calls are low baud rate, when we test with the
 alarm company we only pass about 30% of the time (ulaw from customer site
 to our central switch, then out a T1).  To be fair there is no QoS on
 their Internet links yet, and that certainly plays a role.

 But it seems to me that there should be a solution much like our fax
 relay, where we literally accept the fax call over the local LAN, produce
 a PDF file, transfer it to the central switch which then dials it back out
 over a T1.  In that case the only modem over VoIP is on their local LAN,
 which has performed well for us.

 I would love to see a DSP modem that could answer an asterisk channel,
 send the data stream over TCP to some remote asterisk, which could then
 relay the stream by making an outbound DSP modem call on a PSTN trunk.
 Has anyone attempted anything like this?

 As an aside, since the recent thread on Seagate Dockstar installs, I have
 several running.  This would be the perfect platform for the relay on
 the customer end, being so ridiculously cheap (I bought three for $30
 each, plus 3 $10 4G USB sticks).

 So hoping this will spark some comments on the concept in general, and
 really hoping someone has actually tackled something similar.  It could
 open up a nice niche for even residential customers with expensive POTS
 lines dedicated to alarm systems.

 Cheers,


 --

 Jeff LaCoursiere
 SunFone
 j...@sunfone.com

  
 Alarm panel communication, at least with Ademco, is done only with
 DTMF. When I tested the Asterisk AlarmReceiver application I found
 that the DTMF tones were so short they weren't always recognized by my
 ATA in RFC 2833 mode. Changing it to inband DTMF worked better, but
 then I was having issues with the AlarmReceiver application.  Have a
 look at the below link, which touches on alarm panel communicates.

 

Re: [asterisk-users] alarm POTS lines

2010-12-04 Thread John Novack


jon pounder wrote:
 On 12/04/2010 03:01 AM, Tammy A Wisdom wrote:

 You all do know that this is something you could be sued for since this is 
 'life safety equipment' ?  I've heard from multiple sources that if it isn't 
 against the nfpa that it will be very soon
 Ask yourself if you want to be subject to a lawsuit if someones house is 
 robbed, someone dies, house/business burns down and the alarm panel is 
 unable to communicate?  Ask your insurance rep if they will cover you doing 
 this type of voip stuff and they'll most likely tell you not too. Bottom 
 line is this is NOT a smart thing to put on voip.
 Tammy

 Tammy A Wisdom
 Summit Open Source Development Group

  
 nfpa only applies where nfpa is actually a requirement, ANYTHING anyone
 does that is not required (residential fire and burglar alarm) is better
 than the alternative of nothing at all. Calling yourself a ulc certified
 monitoring center or something like that is a no no if you don't meet
 those requirements, but selling a service as what it is, is perfectly
 fine, if you are not guaranteeing something you can't provide you are in
 the clear.


You want to bet your business and liability insurance on that position?

Anyone considering this direction had better run it by their business 
insurance risk management department, and a good lawyer versed in laws 
involved in the state(s) involved.
 All that aside things are moving to direct tcp/ip communication, using
 voip to talk to antiquated monitoring equipment is just an interim fix
 as the consumer end technology is moving faster than the central station
 technology. The argument voip is unreliable compared to pots really is
 not true if everything is setup properly. tcp/ip and anything that lives
 on top of that protocol like voip etc., has much more flexible routing
 and failover than any pots circuit could ever hope to have, and can use
 multiple independant paths for communication, and the connection can be
 held open like a dvacs circuit for continuous monitoring without all the
 overhead of individual copper pairs and multiplexers at the monitoring
 center.  Its hard for the manufacturers of this equipment to stomach
 though that a pc with a network card is actually more functional than a
 multimillion dollar piece of hardware they used to sell, so change is
 slow coming.


VOIP is NOT yet as reliable as a POTS circuit. The degree of 
unreliability depends on the providers involved, but network managers 
have yet to put into place It certainly is getting somewhat better, and 
one can skew the statistics with the volume of data involved, but when 
life safety issues are involved, it isn't there yet. Even Mobile ( radio 
) backup is considered secondary for reporting, and then not for 
fire/sprinkler systems.

the safest circuit for monitoring, though seldom available anymore, is 
the supervised loop to the monitoring station.
A PC with it's inherent frailty is way down the list in terms of reliability

John Novack



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 Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] alarm POTS lines

 On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Jeff LaCoursierej...@sunfone.com   wrote:

  
 Hi,

 I've brought this up in the past and there was a good discussion - am
 wondering if there have been any new developments.

 Our dialtone service, like I am sure is true for most ITSPs, touts the
 ability to drop your POTs lines for significant savings.  For businesses
 we have a low-cost Atom based PBX and a fax relay setup locally with
 hylafax/iaxmodem to solve that issue, and it is working very well.  We
 don't however, have a solution for their alarm lines.

 The problem is of course that modem calls over VoIP are flaky at best.
 Even though these alarm calls are low baud rate, when we test with the
 alarm company we only pass about 30% of the time (ulaw from customer site
 to our central switch, then out a T1).  To be fair there is no QoS on
 their Internet links yet, and that certainly plays a role.

 But it seems to me that there should be a solution much like our fax
 relay, where we literally accept the fax call over the local LAN, produce
 a PDF file, transfer it to the central switch which then dials it back out
 over a T1.  In that case the only modem over VoIP is on their local LAN,
 which has performed well for us.

 I would love to see a DSP modem that could answer an asterisk channel,
 send the data stream over TCP to some remote asterisk, which could then
 relay the stream by making an outbound DSP modem call on a PSTN trunk.
 Has anyone attempted anything like this?

 As an aside, since the recent thread on Seagate Dockstar installs, I have
 

Re: [asterisk-users] alarm POTS lines

2010-12-04 Thread Lee Howard
Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:
 I don't think I have a prayer of hacking iaxmodem to do what is 
 needed to emulate a modem though :)

I can't pretend to know what an alarm system needs out of a modem, but 
as far as iaxmodem acquiring data-modem capabilities that part is 
already developing.  IAXmodem inherits its DSP capabilities from 
spandsp, and you can see on the spandsp that certain modem types are 
already available in the newer spandsp snapshots.  That doesn't mean 
that you can expect iaxmodem or spandsp to work for you anytime soon 
out-of-the box, but know that eventually you'll see this happen.

 Between the dockstar and the ATA 
 (which I am already providing for dialtone anyway) it is around a $40 cost 
 solution for me, and the customer gets to drop the POTS line, which is 
 around a $30/month savings for them.  I'd probably just eat the added cost 
 to get the customer, and could even charge some modest fee for the alarm 
 connection that would still in the end save them money.



 Look at fax, for example.  Wouldn't we love to tell our 
 customers to dump their old fax machines for scanners and email?  Some people 
 just won't until the thing catches fire or otherwise dies.
   

There are many reasons besides ignorance that faxes (and thus fax 
machines) are still around.  For one, there is a serious technological 
work-flow hurdle involved with the scan-to-email approach replacing fax 
completely because, for one, it's not like you can do that for every one 
of your would-be fax recipients.  Consequently trying to replace faxing 
with a scan-to-email approach ultimately means that someone still has to 
do some faxing.  As it's typically easier to send a fax than to 
scan/attach/email, work-flow productivity will actually drop by forcing 
the abandonment of fax machines (i.e. by utilizing a mail-to-fax service 
for intended recipients where a direct e-mail will not work).

(I'm convinced that fax machines are with us for the long-haul.  Now, 
whether or not futuristic fax machines operate directly with a POTS line 
or with IP connectivity seems clear that it will eventually become a 
hybridization, but I truly believe that those who engineer that future 
technology will necessarily have to divorce the IP-side of the systems 
away from the whole modulation/demodulation over audio channels bit.  On 
an IP network it simply makes no sense to take a data stream, and 
modulate it to audio only to demodulate it back to a data stream again 
because the IP network makes the modulation/demodulation superfluous 
where it was necessary on the PSTN.  So this running of T.38 FoIP over 
SIP VoIP is consequently a passing phase; it's not a solid-enough 
solution to replace traditional faxing.)

 So is there anyone out there with the DSP skills to do the iaxmodem-like 
 part 
 of what I describe above?  Would a bounty raise any interest?

As I said before, I think the work is already being done.  And for what 
it's worth, the monthly $30 or $40 summed over years is a petty amount 
compared to the necessary development cost of the kinds of technologies 
you're discussing.  You'll gladly pay $40 monthly for life than need to 
pay $100K to develop this stuff.

 A little 
 more searching today turned up this:

 http://www.gouloum.fr/code/sm/sm.html

 Which is REALLY close to what I need...

And note that it uses spandsp (albeit a newer snapshot than iaxmodem 
currently uses), so iaxmodem is therefore not far-off from where you 
claim to need it to be.

Thanks,

Lee.


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Re: [asterisk-users] Error messages with chan_dahdi

2010-12-04 Thread Shaun Ruffell
On 12/4/10 9:15 AM, equis software wrote:
 HI, I'm using asterisk-1.4.24, dahdi-linux-complete-2.4.0+2.4.0 and
 libpri-1.4.11.4
 When dial, when 492131 answer, in console appear some error messages



-- AGI Script Executing Application: (DIAL) Options: (DAHDI/g1/492131|60)
  -- Requested transfer capability: 0x00 - SPEECH
  -- Called g1/492131
 [Dec  4 11:15:59] WARNING[7669]: chan_dahdi.c:1776 dahdi_enable_ec:
 Unable to enable echo cancellation on channel 2 (No such device)
  -- DAHDI/2-1 is ringing
 [Dec  4 11:16:02] WARNING[7669]: chan_dahdi.c:1776 dahdi_enable_ec:
 Unable to enable echo cancellation on channel 2 (No such device)

These No such device errors when trying to enable the echocan are most 
likely the result of not having configured an echocan for the channel in 
/etc/dahdi/system.conf.

See line 309 in 
http://svn.asterisk.org/view/dahdi/tools/trunk/system.conf.sample?view=markup

  -- DAHDI/2-1 answered DAHDI/1-1
  -- Native bridging DAHDI/1-1 and DAHDI/2-1
 [Dec  4 11:16:02] ERROR[7669]: chan_dahdi.c:8735 dahdi_pri_error: ROSE
 REJECT:
 [Dec  4 11:16:02] ERROR[7669]: chan_dahdi.c:8735 dahdi_pri_error:
 INVOKE ID: 3
 [Dec  4 11:16:02] ERROR[7669]: chan_dahdi.c:8735 dahdi_pri_error:
 PROBLEM: Invoke: Unrecognized Operation



These errors I don't know about off the top of my head (and they are 
probably the more critical ones for you I'm guessing).

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[asterisk-users] ISDN TE/NT Mode

2010-12-04 Thread james kielty

Hi,am using an atcom isdn pbx its using a colegne HFC chip..It comes in TE 
mode..I want to switch it to NT mode.Its not possible to select NT mode in the 
GUI so I went to config filesmisdn-init.config and edited it there.But 
everytime I do misdn show port 1 its alway in TE mode.Can anyone help me with 
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Re: [asterisk-users] Zaptel / Asterisk on Solaris

2010-12-04 Thread RR
Hi Bruce,

Thanks again for your generous response, please see a few comments inline

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Bruce McAlister bruce.mcalis...@blueface.ie
 wrote:

  Hi RR,



 Replies inline below



 *From:* asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:
 asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] *On Behalf Of *RR
 *Sent:* 04 December 2010 01:17

 *To:* Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
 *Subject:* Re: [asterisk-users] Zaptel / Asterisk on Solaris





 On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:58 PM, RR ranjt...@gmail.com wrote:



 Zaptel package isn't installing though ...crashes midway complaining that:



 *Operating environment requirement not met.**
 This package requires Solaris 7 or better.
 checkinstall script suspends*



 huh? I'm running 5.11, which according to some rigorous mathematical
 calculations, I concluded IS better than v5.7. Unfortunately, I've been away
 from the development world so long that I can't remember where to go about
 hacking a package and extract the scripts etc to change the logic or fix
 whatever is causing it to believe that my OS isn't meeting the min. req.



 Lastly, w.r.t to running it within a VM, yes, I do understand the timing
 problems etc, but this exercise is just to document how to compile
 Asterisk/Zaptel under Solaris 10/11 so when I do get a real Solaris machine,
 I have already sorted out all the issues with installing/compiling etc



 Thanks

 \R



 As of this writing, I have recreated my Solaris VM with the latest Solaris
 10 U9 version and have managed to install and load the zaptel driver. This
 is from the SolarisVoIP but it must be a really old (haven't checked the
 version yet). Now, trying to go crazy here and compile the stock Asterisk
 1.6.2.14 with it.



 --

 I suspected it would have been changes/differences between OpenSolaris and
 Solaris. The packages at SolarisVoIP were built on the standard Solaris OS,
 as you found out J Try to compile version 1.6.2.15-rc1 as I had issues
 with a “timersub” routine on 1.6.2.14 that appears to have been fixed in
 1.6.2.15-rc1

 --


Ok, awesome. Will give 1.6.2.15-rc1 a try although in the beginning I did
see compilation errors w.r.t to timersub routine, I don't see them anymore.
I think it was complaining about some library that I then created a soft
link for in a lib directory and that seems to have got fixed. But
neverttheless I'll get the build you recommend.



Question for the Digium dev team (if they bother reading emails from
 lowlifes like me): Are their special optimizations/options/conditions/checks
 ALREADY in place within the makefile/configure files that detect Solaris and
 if we want to go really crazy then detect 64-bit Solaris? Do I just fix my
 library paths with the LDFLAGS and just run configure or should I be doing
 something more, modifying makefile, makefile.rules, makefile.opts or the
 configure script itself??



 --

 The makefile already has some options specific to Solaris, however, I
 usually edit the makefile to include /usr/sfw which is where the standard
 ssl etc libraries are located on Solaris. The default makefile looks for
 them in /usr/local. If you also want to keep your application in the /opt
 tree then you will need to modify the installation path as well. I seem to
 recall an issue with ncurses or tr or something along those lines which made
 me include /usr/xpg4/bin in the beginning of my PATH so that it found the
 proper tool in one of the scripts. Other than that it should build cleanly
 on Solaris. With regards the 64-bit build, I’ve not tried it yet, but bear
 in mind that the 64-bit libraries for the likes of ogg/vorbis are not there
 by default in Solaris, most of the other standard asterisk library
 requirements are, you should, in theory only have to export libdir/64 to
 link in the 64 bit libraries. I’ve not tried to build a 664-bit version yet
 so I’m shooting in the dark here.

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Ok, right so this is where I'm having serious issues almost every step of
the way. The problem is the stupid paackaging of Solaris and the difficulty
in obtaining packages for them and their dependencies. Like for a week I
struggled with figuring out how I could install/upgrade solaris 8 over the
network to Solaris 10 with JUST a minimal core and the devlopment tools like
gcc, gmake and some libraries etc. then I gave in and decided to just
install the developers Metacluster since compiling/building Asterisk on it
was more important to me right now. Then if I want to stick with purely the
Solaris version of everything, my only option is to manually download
packages I think I need from sunfreeware.com. If I use pkgutil or pkg-get,
then I end up with the CSW packages and that will add to the complexity of
PATHs to my libraries and binaries. Anyway, now that I'm done b**ching about
Solaris (haha) you have hit on the core of my problem. It's the library
paths that are messing me up. So this is how I ran configure:

*LDFLAGS='-R/lib -R/usr/lib 

Re: [asterisk-users] Zaptel / Asterisk on Solaris

2010-12-04 Thread RR
Hi Tilghman,

Thanks for your response. Please see my response below.
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Tilghman Lesher tles...@digium.com wrote:

 Changes that you need to make to get Asterisk to compile reliably on
 Solaris would be welcome reports on the issue tracker.  What we have now
 are paths that worked for someone at sometime.  Adding extra include
 and library paths should not cause problems, but what really should happen
 is that the configure script should be detecting the right paths and
 automatically adding them to the Makefile variables.

 Our standard build script for Solaris (1.8 and trunk only) does not alter
 the source at all, but does set PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH to ensure that
 certain values are included, and it does compile and run (and pass) our
 unit tests.



So as mentioned in my response to Bruce, I did try to prepend these library
paths to the configure script via the LDFLAGS variable. You're right about
all the includes and library paths. The problem is, as I've mentioned
earlier, for non-developer people like me, this isn't second nature and
eveytime I have to do something like this, it's usually months or many times
years since I'd last had to build anything from source and modify something
anything in the code. So it would help if after these unit and sanity tests
that are done for whichever build/release/version, if these can be added to
the README or INSTALL notes for Solaris, for *that* build in a file like
INSTALL.solaris or something. This won't happen everytime or for every
release/, and I understand and appreciate that but it's a bit hard to get
this going whent eh only resource we have are the pages from SolarisVoIP
people which is almost 3-5 yrs old and I have not heard from Joe at
thrallingpenguin after I sent him 2 emails about 3-4 weeks ago. We'll we
more than happy to help in whatever way, if we can get a bit of hand holding
and relatively fast turnaround/attention from the developers who can just
point us in the right direction ... don't have to use up your machines, dev
cycles or testing time, we'll do all of that if we can get help in
troubleshooting the build environment.

Anyway, coming back to the point, so are you saying that I should try trunk
or 1.8 instead of mucking around with 1.6x versions? Sorry I have got back
to Asterisk after almost 3 years, so haven't kept up with where I should be
going and is it better to stick with 1.6x or just go to 1.8 as there's no
upgrades or backward compatability requirements for me.

Once I get this going, I promise to have an updated document uploaded
somewhere or will mail to the list so someone can put it on the wiki.

Thanks,

RR
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Re: [asterisk-users] Version compatibility question...

2010-12-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 09:09:25PM -0300, equis software wrote:
 Hi, Could I install Asterisk 1.4.19,  Dahdi 2.4.0 and libpri 1.4.3 ??

No. Asterisk  1.4.22 cannot use DAHDI.

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