Re: [asterisk-users] Changing labels on Phones

2009-11-15 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Leif Madsen wrote: However, changing the label is probably not really the right way to go about this. For example, I have created an Asterisk system for a call centre that uses hot desking with Polycom phones, and those phones then use the built in web browser with

[asterisk-users] AGI and paging

2009-11-18 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Hello, I have an AGI (in C) on 1.4.26.3 that puts a caller on hold, does a few things, then blind transfers the call (with EXEC Dial...) to a parking space. This is working fine. Now I want to add an overhead page AFTER the transfer has happened, basically announcing that there is a caller

Re: [asterisk-users] keep asterisk in RAM

2009-11-24 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Next question will be How can I keep my server from crashing? :) (add more RAM... which may have been a good answer for question 1...) j On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Alex Balashov wrote: Disable swap space. swapoff -a Jerry Geis wrote: Is there a way to keep asterisk in RAM and tell linux not

Re: [asterisk-users] keep asterisk in RAM

2009-11-24 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Richard Kenner wrote: On a closely related note, has anyone built a normal (not embedded) system on SSD? I've been running Asterisk on a 20GB SSD drive for a while now. What mft/model? I was recently quoted a 4GB Compact Flash drive as part of a small system we plan

Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk trunk CURL hangs in the dialplan

2009-11-24 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Eric Chamberlain wrote: On Nov 24, 2009, at 6:17 AM, Tilghman Lesher wrote: Sounds like your local DNS resolver isn't answering queries promptly. Thanks, I'll look into it. Our CURL function only calls one hostname over and over. Would setting CURLOPT

[asterisk-users] AGI and Music on hold

2009-11-26 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Hi, Happy Thanksgiving to those of us in the USA... Been trying to debug an AGI (in C) on 1.4.26.2. I blind transfer a call to this snippet of dialplan: exten = 00,1,DeadAGI(pq.agi,50) pq.agi then plays a prompt (which I hear just fine): [Nov 26 02:42:47] VERBOSE[28721] logger.c:

Re: [asterisk-users] 1800 DID Provider - Suggestion

2009-11-27 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Try IPComms. j On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Marco Cordeiro wrote: Hello All, Do you guys suggest any 1800 DID Provider in the US ? I'm having a hard time to find one. Thanks, Marco ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by

[asterisk-users] network config

2009-12-08 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Slightly OT? A client has two offices in the Virgin Islands that MUST maintain data connectivity, and there are no available leased line options to run a P2P link between them. To date, broadband Internet connections at both offices have been used as the link, with a VPN tunnel, and phones in

Re: [asterisk-users] network config

2009-12-08 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Hi David, On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, David Gibbons wrote: snip A client has two offices in the Virgin Islands that MUST maintain data connectivity, and there are no available leased line options to run a P2P link between them. snip Is there line of sight? I've been wanting to do a long-shot wifi

Re: [asterisk-users] ATA FXO

2009-12-11 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Joseph wrote: On 12/11/09 14:05, Jonathan Thurman wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Connor Spiess cspi...@idea-ma.com wrote: Joseph You could also check out the Audio Codes gateways if the Grandstream doesn't work out for you. They make FXO/FXS gateways. They

Re: [asterisk-users] Can't get G.729 to work...

2009-12-15 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Ben Schorr wrote: Asterisk 1.4 - FreePBX - Polycom 330 and 501 phones. I've got G.729 loaded in the modules on the Asterisk server and on the Polycom phones I've set G.729 to be the first preference of codec, but still when I go SIP SHOW CHANNELS during active calls

Re: [asterisk-users] Can't get G.729 to work...

2009-12-15 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Ben Schorr wrote: O.K., interestingly enough when I call our extensions from my mobile phone it still seems to be using ULAW, but when they dial out it seems to be using G.729 now. Is there something in Dahdi that I need to configure so that inbound calls (from the PRI

Re: [asterisk-users] CallerID on Indian PSTN is not working.

2010-01-06 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Arun Sasidhar wrote: Hi, I dont know the type of caller ID. What you mean by this?. I am from India. I don't know more about this. * Thanks, Arun S* Hi Arun, Just for fun I read over the bug id you quoted below, and it seems there are a number of settings you may

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-12 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Danny Nicholas wrote: Since you are small, trixbox would probably be the ideal flavor of Asterisk for you. It is a downloadable ISO that installs Scientific Linux and Asterisk and sets you up to manage everything with a GUI interface from a browser. Once you outgrow

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-12 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Richard Kenner wrote: And, I'd be in the camp that would advocate getting your hands dirty and learn to program without the GUI. You'll learn a lot and then if you'd want to move to a GUI and something breaks, you'll have some idea on what and how to fix it. Knowing

Re: [asterisk-users] Beginners Guide to setting up a Call Centre

2010-01-12 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Richard Kenner wrote: Your comments both come from having taken a short look at FreePBX and dismissed it without investigating how powerful it can be. Yes, but the discussion is about COMPLEXITY, not power! I thought the discussion was about how an IT guy with no

Re: [asterisk-users] iaxmodem / hylafax receive problem

2010-01-14 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Doug Lytle wrote: Kingsley Tart wrote: Hi, I'm trying to receive faxes using hylafax / iaxmodem but I just can't get it to work. We're using Sangoma E1 cards and have calls coming in Without seeing your config files for iaxmodem and hylafax and also seeing a

[asterisk-users] Dahdi issues

2010-01-14 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Hello, My first attempt to get dahdi running on 1.4.28... with a Rhino 8 port modular card and a single FXS module. Got the Rhino card installed and the machine sees it: r...@pbx:/etc/dahdi# dmesg | grep rcbfx [ 71.985309] rcbfx :04:00.0: PCI INT A - GSI 21 (level, low) - IRQ 21 [

Re: [asterisk-users] Dahdi issues

2010-01-14 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
there is no change. Still no channels to show in asterisk. Interesting that it just randomly decided to create extensions 4000 and 4001 for my two channels :) j -Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jeff

[asterisk-users] Dahdi and FreePBX

2010-01-14 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Perhaps this more belongs on the FreePBX list, but for the archives, this is what I did to make it work: chan_dahdi wants to read /etc/asterisk/chan_dahdi.conf FreePBX, at least how I installed from source, seems to think I am still running Zaptel. It created zapata_additional.conf when I

Re: [asterisk-users] GXV3140 and Xlite video

2010-01-14 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Julian Lyndon-Smith wrote: Has anyone managed to get these two phones to make a video call to each other ? If so, care to share how the hell you managed ? the GXV is at the latest firmware, and xlite the latest download Asterisk 1.4 trunk TIA Julian I've done

Re: [asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection

2010-01-15 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, randall wrote: Sure. My point was just that IF you only got one connection in the wall, its cheaper to get a switch than getting a phone with dual 1Gbit ports. Leif OK, point taken. but i have 6xisdn2 and already 2x24 gigabit switches (will need to replace one

Re: [asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection

2010-01-15 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Hans Witvliet wrote: If you connect your pc with GB-lan card to an dual-ported ip-phone, you and up with an 100Mbps lan connection to your pc. Only way to avoid that, is to insert a cheap second lan-card in your pc, and connect your phone to the second lan, so your pc

Re: [asterisk-users] Virtual Asterisk Installation

2010-01-20 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Gergo Csibra wrote: Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 11:41:48 PM, Michiel wrote: Forget about virtualization! ... Virtualisation is nice for test-setups, but thats it. for any real job it's a major pain in the ass and makes stuff bork beyond imagination. Well. Why do

[asterisk-users] Mitel integration

2010-01-27 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Hi, A potential client (hotel) has a Property Management System that talks the Mitel protocol to their current Mitel PBX in order to receive CDRs (which end up being rated by the PMS system and charged back to guests). Does anyone know of any (free or otherwise) docs on this protocol, or

Re: [asterisk-users] Mitel integration

2010-01-27 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Howes said: On 27 Jan 2010, at 15:48, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: Sounds good to me, but without the spec I'm stuck in a catch 22! tcpdump? (assuming IP). Bet its fairly simple plain text or something. Steve -- _ -- Bandwidth

Re: [asterisk-users] codec conversion

2010-02-02 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Steve Edwards wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, wassim darwich wrote: Thanks for?your reply,ill give?you my situation, iam using my asterisk box as a switch ,so my client is sending me ulaw and my voip provider?only accept g723 ,So what i have to do is to receive?g711?codec

[asterisk-users] asterisk video support and IPTV

2010-02-02 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Has anyone played with the idea of Asterisk as an H.264 multicast tool? I am wondering what the possibility would be to have some kind of machine with a capture card call asterisk over SIP and have asterisk make another hundred calls to subscribers. Then any H.264 compatible device (Android?

Re: [asterisk-users] Losing local SIP phones when internet goes down?

2010-02-05 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Nikhil Nair wrote: Hi again, OK, I've now installed a local caching nameserver, but don't see any change at all. IN detail, what I did: - Installed Debian packages resolvconf and dnsmasq (resolvconf just takes care of dynamic nameserver allocations in

Re: [asterisk-users] Losing local SIP phones when internet goes down?

2010-02-05 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Vinícius Fontes wrote: I solved similar issues by setting srvlookup=no, having bind running locally and just the line nameserver 127.0.0.1 on /etc/resolv.conf. Your local bind is what solved the problem. The srvlookup=no didn't actually help IMO. j

Re: [asterisk-users] large scale paging

2010-02-05 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Mark Willis wrote: Has anyone done any large scale intercom deployments with Asterisk? I've been asked about building a system to one-way page 500 phones simultaneously from a single server. My concerns are: - My limited math capabilities suggest 41 Mbps of RTP

Re: [asterisk-users] Dial script

2010-02-05 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Thomas Perron wrote: karl, does it make you feel good ? wow. pathetic. On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Karl Fife karlf...@gmail.com wrote: Try this: #rm -rf / I second that opinion. Tell us first WHY you want to dial 1 numbers in sequence. Without any reason,

Re: [asterisk-users] test

2010-02-09 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
fail. On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, aster...@opensourcesolution.in wrote: test -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:

Re: [asterisk-users] IP Phone recommendation

2010-02-10 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Tim Nelson wrote: - Gordon Henderson gordon+aster...@drogon.net wrote: If not using PoE I'd suggest getting a few extra PSUs though - that's one area I have had a few issues with - but maybe it's just been the UK ones. Gordon The same can be said for the US

[asterisk-users] video voicemail

2010-02-15 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Playing around with the Grandstream GXV3140. I'm interested in having the video voicemail clips emailed in a format that might be opened by Windows Media Player or even Quicktime. Have been googling around a lot and have tried various bits of OSS to read the resulting .h264 file that

Re: [asterisk-users] video voicemail

2010-02-15 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Tilghman Lesher wrote: On Monday 15 February 2010 14:09:38 Olle E. Johansson wrote: 15 feb 2010 kl. 20.31 skrev Jeff LaCoursiere: Playing around with the Grandstream GXV3140. I'm interested in having the video voicemail clips emailed in a format that might be opened

[asterisk-users] time/date over POTS?

2010-03-04 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
I had a customer ask me about time/date information being sent to his analog (attached to a Linksys SPA2102) answering machine. I didn't know that POTS could carry this information. Is this something Asterisk could send over SIP? Cheers, j --

Re: [asterisk-users] time/date over POTS?

2010-03-04 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Dave Fullerton wrote: Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: I had a customer ask me about time/date information being sent to his analog (attached to a Linksys SPA2102) answering machine. I didn't know that POTS could carry this information. Is this something Asterisk could send

Re: [asterisk-users] 30 mins GSM file

2010-03-05 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Steve Howes wrote: On 4 Mar 2010, at 23:11, Steve Edwards wrote: On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Steve Edwards wrote: On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, David @ULC wrote: I need to create 30 mins of GSM file for Asterisk . Silent / Blank file. Whats the best way to create it ? Record

Re: [asterisk-users] Fwd: Switchvox SOHO 4.5 is Here

2010-03-11 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Angelito Manansala wrote: If you are having trouble reading this email, read the online versionhttp://now.eloqua.com/es.asp?s=491e=78675elq=55426a8b6c714f5bb6f2bf4b5d37bf55 . http://app.en25.com/e/er.aspx?s=491lid=215elq=55426a8b6c714f5bb6f2bf4b5d37bf55 Dear Lito,

[asterisk-users] IAX2 peer question

2010-03-13 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
What does the (T) mean? Am playing around with running an IAX trunk over an OpenVPN session and see this only on this peer. demopbx/sunfone 10.222.0.6 (D) 255.255.255.255 4569 (T) OK (26 ms) Same thing on the other side: sunfone/demopbx 10.222.0.1 (S) 255.255.255.255

Re: [asterisk-users] IAX2 peer question

2010-03-13 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: What does the (T) mean? Am playing around with running an IAX trunk over an OpenVPN session and see this only on this peer. demopbx/sunfone 10.222.0.6 (D) 255.255.255.255 4569 (T) OK (26 ms) Same thing on the other side

Re: [asterisk-users] Android Phones ;-)

2010-03-15 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Ishfaq Malik wrote: Conrad Wood wrote: FWIW, just received an android-based phone and after installing sipdroid found that it works very well with asterisk ;). It automatically dials numbers through asterisk if available and otherwise through the gsm network.

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk to be used with Ciscs media gateways

2010-03-15 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, David Backeberg wrote: and also to do LCR and Quality based routing of International calls? I don't know what that means. Least Cost Routing. Asterisk doesn't have anything built in for this. We do it with an in-house AGI. Others have done similar things that you

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk to be used with Ciscs media gateways

2010-03-15 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jeff LaCoursiere Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 6:06 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk to be used with Ciscs media gateways On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, David Backeberg wrote: and also to do LCR

Re: [asterisk-users] Time counting while playback

2010-03-15 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Pham Quy wrote: Hi all, This question has been asked for days, I think that would be more comprehensible if i post it in a new thread. What i want to do is something like karaoke. when users call to asterisk, a music song is played while caller sings. Their voice

Re: [asterisk-users] 8Port Junghanns BRI card under Dahdi

2010-03-20 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Loic Didelot wrote: Hi, I try to get an 8 Port Junghanns BRI card working under dahdi. The card works with zaptel but I have no success under dahdi. I load the module with modprobe wcb4xxp. I dont get any errors but I dont see the spans in /proc/dahdi. The output from

Re: [asterisk-users] Press release: Virtual Communication Clouds :: New feature in Asterisk 1.8

2010-04-01 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
I finally got it at Calories Consumed. Geesh. Good one! :) j On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Olle E. Johansson wrote: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Puerto Escondido, Mexico, April 1st, 2010: Digium launches Asterisk VCC (TM) - a new virtual communication platform for enterprises, the public sector and the

[asterisk-users] realtime jitter/latency measurements

2010-04-08 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Howdy, Can anyone point me to links or discussions about realtime jitter measurement? I read a long thread from 2007 (Douglas Garstang) that didn't end with any conclusions. I want to do the same thing he was trying to do - allow realtime jitter measurements to help control call routing with

Re: [asterisk-users] URGENT - How to exclude one ZAP channel for outgoin and incoming calls

2010-04-08 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, bruce bruce wrote: I am not sure if unplugging line from card would work as it's still in a hunt and calls will keep coming through that number and won't fall over to next line unless there is a BUSY on the line. There is no timeout; it's a hunt on BUSY. Plus, I don't

[asterisk-users] jitterbuffer

2010-04-08 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
What is the consensus on using the 1.4 jitterbuffer? Do most people enable it? We have a PSTN server that has our RBS T1 trunks in a central location, then have clients that connect via SIP to us for access to those trunks. Most of them are just fine, but lately we have a handful that are

Re: [asterisk-users] jitterbuffer

2010-04-08 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Tim Nelson wrote: - Jeff LaCoursiere j...@jeff.net wrote: What is the consensus on using the 1.4 jitterbuffer? Do most people enable it? We have a PSTN server that has our RBS T1 trunks in a central location, then have clients that connect via SIP to us

Re: [asterisk-users] How can I record the conversations in a conference call?

2010-04-16 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, Carlos Chavez wrote: On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 08:38 -0700, Luki wrote: Please note: A Zaptel timer must be present for conferencing to work!, but if the user does not have ZAP/DAHDI hardware, he can use ZAP/DAHDI DUMMY Actually, my understanding is that this is incorrect.

Re: [asterisk-users] Testing a sip call through Asterisk?

2010-04-16 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, Nathan Clemons wrote: I'm looking to find a test tool that will register with our Asterisk (Trixbox) server here at work and place an outgoing call via our main SIP trunk (BroadVoice) to confirm that things are working. I've looked around but I can't seem to find any

Re: [asterisk-users] ATA shootout: PAP2T versus Grandstream Handytone 286

2010-04-29 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, David Backeberg wrote: I'm considering a situation where I buy about twenty ATA devices. I've played with the Linksys / Cisco PAP2T, and got that working fine with some inbound and outbound faxing. The web GUI was okay. I'm seeing prices around $45 to $50 for this

Re: [asterisk-users] OT: NAT in SPA922

2010-05-06 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Thu, 6 May 2010, Sebastian Milioto wrote: It is a building, with 24 separated rooms, each room will have a PC and a IP Phone. Every room connected to a switch Cisco 2950. I want keeping all PCs isolated behind a NAT (no access to neighbour's PC), and still keep communication in same LAN

Re: [asterisk-users] OT: NAT in SPA922

2010-05-06 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Thu, 6 May 2010, Sebastian Milioto wrote: I see the following in SPA922 System tab (new firmware) VLAN Settings Enable VLAN:yesnoEnable CDP:yesno VLAN ID:PC Port VLAN Highest Priority:01234567No Limit Enable PC Port VLAN Tagging:yesnoPC Port VLAN ID: VLAN ID:1 for all Phones, and VLAN

Re: [asterisk-users] Digits and Vestec

2010-05-11 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
I'm pretty sure you want it to say naught to make the british happy, for zero anyway... j On Tue, 11 May 2010, David Backeberg wrote: Make it say 'zed'. It will make the British happy, and cause a different kind of confusion for the Americans. On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Richard

Re: [asterisk-users] OT - Which SIP hardphone with 100 BLF ?

2010-05-20 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Thu, 20 May 2010, Gordon Henderson wrote: On Thu, 20 May 2010, SIP wrote: Even IF you could get a keyboard with lights you could individually turn on and off (never seen one), http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/ Bit expensive though... Gordon Heh. A $2400 keyboard.

[asterisk-users] ring splash

2010-05-26 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Something new to me. Recently installed a 1.4.30 box for a small office with four POTS lines in a hunt (Digium TDM410P). Had the telco put a call forward option on the main line of the hunt. They dial a feature code from their desk phones (Polycom IP450) that results in forwarding the main

Re: [asterisk-users] VoIP over virtualized VPN

2010-05-26 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
I have several Atom based boxes running OpenVPN and processing up to six simultaneous calls over it with no issues. I am quite sure it could do more. Load is still at .2 :) j On Wed, 26 May 2010, Andrew Hakman wrote: I use openvpn for VOIP traffic all the time. It's not a commercial

Re: [asterisk-users] ring splash

2010-05-26 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
rings or seconds before answering, that would be great. I'm coming up zero on searches. Its already set to wait for callerid, so I am a bit confused why it is picking up on a splash... seems it should wait for that second ring anyway. Cheers, j On 5/26/2010 11:36 AM, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote

Re: [asterisk-users] How to have Asterisk respond from the IP address used for registration

2010-05-27 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Thu, 27 May 2010, Mike wrote: Hi, I have a test server with 2 NICs, each with it own IP address. Let`s say 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.3. I would like some phones to register by using 192.168.1.2 and some by using 192.168.1.3 as the address. Since the default IP is 192.168.1.2,

Re: [asterisk-users] Slightly OT: trying to mangle packets from Asterisk for a multiple ISP setup (reward)

2010-06-01 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, Mike wrote: Thanks Joe, They are on different segments. Those two NICs share nothing but the server. But more to the point, it doesn't explain why a simple routing rule matching the destination by IP address works wonderfully, but not one where I match a fwmark

[asterisk-users] tuning software echo cancellation

2010-06-10 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
We have been distributing asterisk servers for several years now, and early on decided that hardware echo can was the way to go. Our first few boxes without it had horrid echo problems, and attempts at tuning in 2006 didn't make any difference. We installed a new server yesterday at a

Re: [asterisk-users] tuning software echo cancellation

2010-06-10 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Gordon Henderson wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: We are totally out of touch on the subject of software echo cancellation in asterisk. The system is running 1.4.28 and Dahdi 2.2.1-RC2. I understand that when Dahdi detects no HWEC, it enables SWEC

Re: [asterisk-users] tuning software echo cancellation

2010-06-10 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Gordon Henderson wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Gordon Henderson wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: We are totally out of touch on the subject of software echo cancellation in asterisk. The system

Re: [asterisk-users] Dual Atom mobo - call capacity

2010-06-10 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
I don't know how it calculates it, but FreePBX shows a bar for total calls that looks like it maxes out at six. We haven't hit that on any installs of this device yet, but that seems pretty low for sure. I know with four calls in progress, all VoIP, transcoding G711u to G.729, the load of

Re: [asterisk-users] Small PC to build and run Asterisk

2010-06-16 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Randy R wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Michael Graves mgra...@mstvp.com wrote: Some distro's, like Askozia and Astlinux, have been specifically engineered around running from flash media. This basic form of operation has been well proven in projects like

Re: [asterisk-users] Small PC to build and run Asterisk

2010-06-16 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Randy R wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Jeff LaCoursiere j...@sunfone.com wrote: pretty much giving up on Skype for Asterisk (and Skype for SIP) now that I realize that they'll be charging a monthly fee that is disproportionately high compared to my need to let

[asterisk-users] Sangoma - how to show channels in use?

2010-06-22 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Hi, I have several 1.4.29 installations with Sangoma AFT101d cards. Normally we have been collecting the raw data and then graphing channel use for these customers with: asterisk -rx 'show channels' | cut -f1 -d' ' | grep Zap | sort -u | wc -l Then I recently noticed that there were some

Re: [asterisk-users] Sangoma - how to show channels in use?

2010-06-22 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
there is no way other than what I am already doing to judge the channels in use? Thanks, j -Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jeff LaCoursiere Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 11:41 AM

[asterisk-users] one for your filters

2010-06-23 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Some !...@$#@@# in the Czech Republic used one of our SIP accounts to place four thousand calls to what appears to be a toll number in Zimbabwe last night. Filter 82.150.165.5. A more overriding problem for me is how do we know what *destinations* to filter so this idea of war dialing a toll

Re: [asterisk-users] one for your filters

2010-06-23 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Gordon Henderson wrote: On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: Some !...@$#@@# in the Czech Republic used one of our SIP accounts to place four thousand calls to what appears to be a toll number in Zimbabwe last night. Filter 82.150.165.5. A more overriding

Re: [asterisk-users] one for your filters

2010-06-23 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Tarek Sawah wrote: you can start by simply telling us what is the purpose of your server.. and does it have long distance of overseas?? do you use Numeric usernames? simple passwords? passwords the same as your username? this way you can offer more info so we can

Re: [asterisk-users] one for your filters

2010-06-23 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Steve Edwards wrote: On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: Some !...@$#@@# in the Czech Republic used one of our SIP accounts to place four thousand calls to what appears to be a toll number in Zimbabwe last night. Filter 82.150.165.5. Ouch. 82.0.0.0/8

[asterisk-users] call file question

2010-06-30 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
I am sure this is simple, but have been struggling. I want to create a call file that dials out a particular Dahdi channel to enable call forwarding on a POTS line. I have this in extensions.conf: [custom-callfwd] exten = s,1,Answer exten = s,n,Dial(DAHDI/4-1/*717157750) exten =

Re: [asterisk-users] call file question

2010-07-01 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Steve Edwards wrote: Now I whipped up a C program to create a call file to do the same thing from the command line: [snip] fprintf(callfile, Channel: Local/*...@custom-callfwd/n\n); I don't see exten *71 in custom-callfwd. Doh! That was the problem. In

Re: [asterisk-users] How to Dialogic 240/JCT-T1 interface with Asterisk?

2010-07-06 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010, C.Savinovich wrote: I am writing to you privately... [snip] Doh! Need another cup of coffee? j -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a

Re: [asterisk-users] Video IVR Asterisk ?

2010-07-16 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 00:08 +0530, Anita Hall wrote: Hi Is it possible to receive video calls using Asterisk and then process them as an IVR ? One of our clients wants to set-up a video IVR system in the US and we are evaluation possible options. Also, what is the bandwidth of receiving

Re: [asterisk-users] What do you use for Invoicing?

2010-08-02 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 14:26 -0400, bruce bruce wrote: Hi Everyone, Sorry, if it's not directly related to Asterisk. Some of people on this list might have PBX deployed for their clients. What software do you use to invoice them so the invoice looks like a proper telecom invoice maybe?

Re: [asterisk-users] What do you use for Invoicing?

2010-08-03 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:17 -0400, bruce bruce wrote: I agree but the mentioned software is not opensource. My conditions clearly included opensource. No, your prefer listed opensource. If you had said requirement I wouldn't have suggested it. j On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Nick

Re: [asterisk-users] Opensource Speech recognition for Asterisk

2010-08-22 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, David Backeberg wrote: On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Duncan Turnbull dun...@e-simple.co.nz wrote: Voice recognition is a pain for people with accents and poor lines and when Everybody has an accent. Some people live in a place where the people they talk to sound

Re: [asterisk-users] Opensource Speech recognition for Asterisk

2010-08-22 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, Jason Aarons (US) wrote: I'm not aware of an open source speech product. Some great examples where speech recognition works well are 1-800-USA-RAIL, Microsoft/Cisco corporate directory 425-882-8080 you can say the employees name and be connected and those works

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk, HylaFax and Cardiff

2010-08-23 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Don Kelly wrote: I’m looking for a way to use our implementation of HylaFax on Asterisk with Cardiff (an old installation of Cardiff document stuff). Is someone doing that? If no one has direct experience, is there a HylaFax client that emulates WinFax print-to-fax?

Re: [asterisk-users] No SIP requests coming in with Allow Anonymous SIP set to OFF - If set to ON it all SIP DEBUG show the requests just fine - Where is the problem?

2010-09-11 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 23:07 -0400, bruce bruce wrote: Hi Everyone, I have a provider whose DID used to come into the box just fine but recently stopped working. Nothing has been changed on our end. Here is what I get when doing sip set debug peer PROVIDER: Sending to

Re: [asterisk-users] No SIP requests coming in with Allow Anonymous SIP set to OFF - If set to ON it all SIP DEBUG show the requests just fine - Where is the problem?

2010-09-11 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 03:53 -0400, Zeeshan Zakaria wrote: This is not elastix or FreePBX forum and asking non-asterisk related questions here is misusing this mailing list. Allow anonymous sip is not an asterisk feature. Look in the code in extensions.conf what it is programmed to do and

Re: [asterisk-users] No SIP requests coming in with Allow Anonymous SIP set to OFF - If set to ON it all SIP DEBUG show the requests just fine - Where is the problem?

2010-09-11 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
-- www.ilovetovoip.com On 2010-09-11 7:22 PM, Paul Belanger paul.belan...@polybeacon.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Jeff LaCoursiere j...@sunfone.com wrote: Sending to 123.123.12... Either you changed the peer parameters or they did... If he

Re: [asterisk-users] No SIP requests coming in with Allow Anonymous SIP set to OFF - If set to ON it all SIP DEBUG show the requests just fine - Where is the problem?

2010-09-11 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
[snip] customers, who all connect from behind their home nat gateways of all kinds.  I still don't know why that fixed it. Sorry you took it so harshly Zeeshan, but the only posts that stick out to me from you are the ones where you are bashing people for posting

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP 800 Origination/Termination - International

2010-09-15 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Joe Freeman wrote: Anyone have a good provider for International (US/Canada at least) 800 termination/origination? I have a customer that had us port one of their 800 numbers and apparently didn't realize that they had published that number in Canada as well. Our current

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP 800 Origination/Termination - International

2010-09-15 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Kyle Kienapfel wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Jeff LaCoursiere j...@sunfone.com wrote: On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Joe Freeman wrote: Anyone have a good provider for International (US/Canada at least) 800 termination/origination? I have

[asterisk-users] random hangups on RBS T1

2010-09-21 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Hi, I have an asterisk 1.4.35 server with a Digium TE410P (1st gen) four port T1 card. Only one RBS T1 plugged into it right now. I have been getting complaints about random hangups. Endpoints are all remote, but I track very closely the latency (by graphing the output of sip show peers) which

Re: [asterisk-users] random hangups on RBS T1

2010-09-21 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Shaun Ruffell wrote: On 09/21/2010 10:48 AM, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: I have several servers with Sangoma A104d cards, and the Sangoma driver has a debug mode that lets me see the RBS bit transitions. I have used this in the past to prove that the T1 provider is actually

Re: [asterisk-users] looking for a better ATA

2010-10-08 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Bryant Zimmerman wrote: I currently us Linksys/Ciscio, Grandstream and AudioCodes ata's. none of the three perform well in all enviroments. Between stablity issues, T38 and DTMF talkoff all three suffer some combination of issues. I am looking at Patton and Innomedia.

[asterisk-users] fraud advice

2010-10-14 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Hi, Embarrassed as I am to write this, I am hoping for some advice. One of our very first PBX installs, now six years old, was taken advantage of over the past few weeks. A victim of sipvicious, I assume, that managed to guess one of the SIP passwords. 4000 calls to various middle eastern

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP Blacklisting

2010-10-21 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Steve Howes wrote: Hi, Given the recent increase in SIP brute force attacks, I've had a little idea. The standard scripts that block after X attempts work well to prevent you actually being compromised, but once you've been 'found' then the attempts seem to keep

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Realtime Billing Question???

2010-10-21 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
[snipped very confusing top and bottom posting mix] On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Sherwood McGowan wrote: Dhaval, You're right, I forgot one thing. The frozen table's id column should not be an autoincrement, it should be set by the insert statement, using the original method I decsribed for

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP Blacklisting

2010-10-21 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Andrew Latham wrote: Always start here... http://www.spamhaus.org/drop/ If the AS is stolen, you can block the network and never have to worry about it... ~ Andrew lathama Latham lath...@gmail.com I guess you are assuming that spam networks should be included in

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP Blacklisting

2010-10-21 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Steve Howes wrote: On 21 Oct 2010, at 16:54, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: I'll subscribe, that is for sure. What is the best way to dist the blacklist? iptables include file? Or something more integrated to asterisk... just thinking off the top of my head that a module

Re: [asterisk-users] Under heavy attack

2010-10-31 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Joel Maslak wrote: For me, monitoring outbound call volume makes a lot more sense. I would love to see an easy to use, out of the box method to alert me if more than x number of erlangs* are exceeded within a five minute, sixty minute, and one day time period. For

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