Re: [asterisk-users] Replacing digital pri card

2011-01-03 Thread Matt Watson
I don't imagine this would be too complicated - don't have any experience with AsteriskNOW - but on a 'vanilla' linux distro it would just be a matter of making sure dahdi is loading the correct drivers and doing a couple of minor config file updates. On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Tyler Davis

Re: [asterisk-users] OT: for those wondering on the stability

2010-11-30 Thread Matt Watson
I'd suggest you take the opportunity to patch that box while its going to go offline anyways! *nix is not immune to security problems despite what some might like to think! Also, I believe Asterisk has had a couple relatively serious vulnerabilities that have been patched in 1.4 and 1.6 over the

Re: [asterisk-users] Incoming calls through SS7 for data modem transmissions - possible??

2010-11-30 Thread Matt Watson
Just out of curiosity, what country are you in? I agree with the others in this thread, this seems very bizzare that the telco requires you to do SS7 for dialup connections. I would ask them for specifics about the "legal" issues with what you are doing - it sounds to me like they are just trying

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk T38

2010-09-23 Thread Matt Watson
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Adam Moffett wrote: > That's probably what I'm going to have to do. Thanks. > > > I suppose that merely removing ATA and asterisk from the middle, and > > plugging a pots line into a fax machine is out of the question. > > > > > > > If you are running 1.6, you c

Re: [asterisk-users] What TERMINAL software do you use for MS Windows platform and WHY?

2010-07-06 Thread Matt Watson
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:39 AM, William Stillwell (Lists) < william.stillwell-li...@ablebody.net> wrote: > I use SecureCRT+FX , and use ansi graphics. > > Putty is nice w/WinSCP as well. > > > I'll +1 this - SecureCRT+FX is the first thing I got my employer to buy a license of for me when I had

Re: [asterisk-users] How are your PRI interrupts balanced? (+ Soft lockup BUG)

2010-03-29 Thread Matt Watson
Dell server by any chance? I have a similar problem with a TE220B in a Dell 1950 III server - i've seen several other people having issues with digium cards in dell servers as well. I've actually done something similar to what you have done - isolated the TE220B onto its own IRQ and set processor

Re: [asterisk-users] Aastra weirds IP 169.x.x.x

2010-03-24 Thread Matt Watson
You should be safe to upgrade to the latest Aastra firmware - i've never had problems with any of the Aastra upgrades - that being said, thats probably better asked to Aastra support instead of here. As for the 169.254.0.0/16 address... theres nothing "weird" about these addresses... 169.254.0.0/

Re: [asterisk-users] press release: Attrafax t.30 and t.38 alternative now released as gpl2 + commercial license.

2010-03-17 Thread Matt Watson
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Klaus Darilion wrote: > >> > Attached is an untested (I did not had the time yet) port to Asterisk > 1.4.29.1 (DAHDI). Maybe the modules need some adaptions too. > > Maybe someone wants to give it a try. > > regards > klaus > > Just as an FYI, your 1.4.29.1 patch a

Re: [asterisk-users] dnd

2010-03-16 Thread Matt Watson
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Ott Rose wrote: > I did a clean install to freepbx 2.6.1 and now when i do *76 i get a 1 > second flash on the screen then the phone hangs up. the FOP says it is on > DND but some ext are still getting calls. once i do a *76 FOP still says I > am on dnd. I am run

Re: [asterisk-users] MWI and 1.6.1

2010-03-12 Thread Matt Watson
Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Matt Watson wrote: > Hi Dave, > > Sure enough my astdb does contain references to VM files as shown with > strings - doing the database dump however does not show the references. > > I'm not sure about the internals of how Berk DB works, howeve

Re: [asterisk-users] MWI and 1.6.1

2010-03-09 Thread Matt Watson
Hi Dave, Sure enough my astdb does contain references to VM files as shown with strings - doing the database dump however does not show the references. I'm not sure about the internals of how Berk DB works, however I;m also seeing references to lots of other data that really shouldn't be part of

Re: [asterisk-users] press release: Attrafax t.30 and t.38 alternative now released as gpl2 + commercial license.

2010-03-08 Thread Matt Watson
I just downloaded a copy of this, by any chances does Zoiper by any chance have diff files available for a more recent 1.4.x release? (I know 1.6 is probably out of the question) Thanks, -- Matt On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Matt Watson wrote: > Awesome! > > I was an Attrafax cus

Re: [asterisk-users] press release: Attrafax t.30 and t.38 alternative now released as gpl2 + commercial license.

2010-03-08 Thread Matt Watson
Awesome! I was an Attrafax customer and was very disappointed when it vanished and couldn;t get new modules for newer versions Asterisk with our paid license. If anybody is working on t38 gatewaying code for 1.6, it would be worth a look at this, as I can attest that Attrafax worked quite well at

Re: [asterisk-users] MWI and 1.6.1

2010-03-04 Thread Matt Watson
I'm having this EXACT same problem, I haven;t been able to narrow down the cause of it yet, but it seems to me that users are receiving notifications for voicemails in mailboxes that belong to other people, as sometimes their mail count magically disappears, which I have been suspecting is when som

Re: [asterisk-users] Parsing Asterisk's .conf files from Perl, Java or PHP file

2009-05-22 Thread Matt Watson
There already is a special character to tell asterisk not to parse a line... its: ";" that is why the default configuration is completely filled with lines that start with ; its considered a comment character to asterisk and will make it ignore the line... you'd just want to add some extra charac

Re: [asterisk-users] From 1.4 to 1.6.0

2009-05-21 Thread Matt Watson
I'd be interested in this as well... I;m coming up to an upgrade cycle and trying to decide if I should upgrade to the latest 1.4 or 1.6.1 When others that have commented on this say they have had problems with PSTN connections, are you referring to T1 or POTS? I;m in a T1 scenerio, so if problem

Re: [asterisk-users] Voicemail and remote directory with SSHFS

2009-05-21 Thread Matt Watson
Not that I;m exactly a big fan of NFS but... why would you choose to implement a filesystem that was designed to emulate Windows shares for your UNIX-type environment? You have to kind of expect odd problems like this when you choose to use things for other than their intended purpose. Samba I wo

Re: [asterisk-users] Aastra 9133i programmable buttons (* 4.1.23)

2009-03-17 Thread Matt Watson
The 1.x firmware for Aastra's (for the 9112i / 9133i / 480i) do support some of the XML functionality that you see in the newer 2.x firmware (for the more recent models). I;m not sure if controlling LED status of the keys is supported by 1.x - but you should be able to find that out by taking a lo

Re: [asterisk-users] HDD FULLL

2009-02-23 Thread Matt Watson
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Steve Edwards wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, David @ULC wrote: > > > When I am trying to delete voice logs, > > [r...@vicidialnow monitor]# rm * -r -f > > -bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long > > In the past 30 days, you've asked questions about > > configuring Ap

Re: [asterisk-users] building asterisk-1.6.0.6 failed!

2009-02-23 Thread Matt Watson
I find it a little strange that for some reason your box is using includes located in /usr/local... while there could be reason for this, that seems like a sign that something might be a little broken on your box. Also, if you don;t mind me asking... why would you want to install * directly in /u

Re: [asterisk-users] zaptel telephone cards and asterisk in another pc

2009-02-20 Thread Matt Watson
Your boss is going to change their mind when they see how awful and unreliable this setup is going to be lol. On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Ignacio wrote: > yep, it is mainly due to cabling issues. My boss doesn't want to > recabling the office. > > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Jeff L

Re: [asterisk-users] TAPI and Asterisk

2009-01-30 Thread Matt Watson
going to stay that way or not... But I haven;t seen anything that would indicate otherwise. -- Matt Watson On 30/01/09 11:11 AM, "Jeff LaCoursiere" wrote: > > Following up my own thread, I am kicking myself for quickly posting > without doing a bit of research. Apparently (n

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 T38 to G711 transcoding is this possible?

2009-01-23 Thread Matt Watson
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Steve Gladden < aster...@michiganbroadband.com> wrote: > The scenario we have is fax send/recieve software that ONLY talks T38 > and an asterisk box. > > We have ITSP providers that do NOT talk T38 but G711 only. > > Does asterisk have the capability to take the T

Re: [asterisk-users] Root Password not taking

2009-01-22 Thread Matt Watson
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Wilton Helm wrote: > >making sure to patch any holes through which the hacker might have come > > In my case, I had been getting regular attacks through SSH for months, > probably 100 a day (bots). Apparently after nine months of this, someone > stumbled on to m

Re: [asterisk-users] Root Password not taking

2009-01-22 Thread Matt Watson
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Wilton Helm wrote: > > Tripwire would be fine, if it had a baseline, but I don't think its any > good after the fact. > Correct - tripwire does need to be setup beforehand, and its not the most simple thing to setup *properly*. After the fact... you are basicall

Re: [asterisk-users] Root Password not taking

2009-01-22 Thread Matt Watson
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:52 PM, David @ULC wrote: > > I tried : > > 1. Shut down the machine. (Ctrl+Alt+Del) > > 2. When it reboot and reach the CentOS boot up screen, then press any key > to go into a select menu. Then press "e" and navigate to the second line > "grub.conf" line (kernel) and pr

Re: [asterisk-users] Root Password not taking

2009-01-22 Thread Matt Watson
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Wilton Helm wrote: > There have been a number of answers provided. The one that was given to > me when I encountered this same problem was to boot a live CD, mount the > root file system and delete the password file which would force your normal > distro boot to

Re: [asterisk-users] random Linksys question

2009-01-22 Thread Matt Watson
Yes, it is available on the SPA2102 - you just login to the web interface, goto the advanced section, then lan setup... its the very first option. -- Matt On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Kristian Kielhofner < kristian.kielhof...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Jeff LaCoursi

Re: [asterisk-users] Root Password not taking

2009-01-22 Thread Matt Watson
work almost all UNIXs) (b) is the more generic and preferred method IMO - it should work just about everywhere... unless you have total disk encryption or encrypted filesystems and are unable to mount the partitions... in which case... best of luck to you. -- Matt Watson

Re: [asterisk-users] DAHDI install dont need download of echo cancel

2008-12-18 Thread Matt Watson
/dahdi.makeopts - but I have not verified that. -- Matt Watson On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: > > > > Jerry Geis schrieb: > > >/ Is there a way to install DAHDI and NOT download the echo canceler > files? > > />/ I dont have firewall acces

Re: [asterisk-users] dahdi-monitor in France

2008-12-11 Thread Matt Watson
g... but i would expect very poor results. 3. You are right, you can';t really just make one yourself from scratch, you need a source that has already been tuned properly to use as a reference for creating your own. -- Matt Watson On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Olivier <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [asterisk-users] Problem with Aastra 480ci and qualify=yes

2008-08-18 Thread Matt Watson
I;m using Aastra 480i's 9133i's, 9112i's, and 57i's and none of them have experienced problems with qualify=yes. I;m currently on Asterisk 1.4.17, but I've also tested them with 1.4.14 up to 1.4.19. -- Matt http://www.mattgwatson.ca On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Drew Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [asterisk-users] Visual Dial Plan

2008-07-27 Thread Matt Watson
I've seen it before infact there is a website setup where people can post stuff made with it... kind of super nerdy! http://www.ratemydialplan.com -- Matt http://www.mattgwatson.ca On 7/27/08, Peter Lindquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dean Collins wrote: > > I just stumbled across thi

Re: [asterisk-users] Not a valid SIP contact - Asterisk 1.4.21.1 & Mitel SIP phones

2008-07-19 Thread Matt Watson
c:5839 set_destination: > Can't find address for host '"72.16.1.20' > Might want to post a sip debug of one of the sessions from the Mitel phone. -- Matt Watson http://www.mattgwatson.ca ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided b

Re: [asterisk-users] Digium PRI and Echo cancellation

2008-07-17 Thread Matt Watson
I believe HPEC actually is the same algorithm (G.168) that the HW echo cancel modules use.. the difference being that HPEC uses up CPU cycles and its performance will be impacted on a system with higher CPU load, whereas the HW modules have a dedicated DSP for it. http://blogs.digium.com/2007/09/0

Re: [asterisk-users] Digium PRI and Echo cancellation

2008-07-17 Thread Matt Watson
12:52:55 nelson Completed startup! Thats on my TE220B. the VPN450 is the hw echo can daughter board. -- Matt Watson http://www.mattgwatson.ca ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 P

Re: [asterisk-users] Incoming calls on zaptel not answered.

2008-07-15 Thread Matt Watson
#x27;t need to install libpri if you are just using a TDM400P (since its not a PRI / BRI [1.6 libpri does BRI as well] card). Might save you a little bit of time in the future, and its one less thing to consider as a problem. -- Matt Watson http://www.

Re: [asterisk-users] (announce) asterisk T.38 gateway

2008-07-10 Thread Matt Watson
e some of that money to further develop spandsp. That being said... i;m also quite pleased to see T.38 support being worked on for Asterisk... its a pretty important area to further develop IMHO. -- Matt Watson http://www.mattgwatson.ca On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Steve Totaro < [

Re: [asterisk-users] cell phone hangup not getting recognised by system

2008-07-09 Thread Matt Watson
is it only cell phone calls that don't work? or is it any external call coming in over your lines? What type of inbound lines do you have? I;m guessing analog lines... if thats the case what type of signalling are you using? if its only cell calls and not all external calls then I have no idea

Re: [asterisk-users] New Polycom SpectraLink 8002 Wifi SIP Handset

2008-07-06 Thread Matt Watson
nce TFTP is authentication-less, but its still possible... and if security is in mind you could limit your TFTP server to specific source IPs -- Matt Watson http://www.mattgwatson.ca ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -

Re: [asterisk-users] Cell phone to PSTN adapter or IAX

2008-07-05 Thread Matt Watson
the last year or so... so i;m really just making some logical assumptions here. -- Matt Watson http://www.mattgwatson.ca ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, A

Re: [asterisk-users] Disto choice for Asterisk with AVM Fritz!PCI cards

2008-06-30 Thread Matt Watson
Let me be the first to say: "Pick whatever distro you are comfortable with" Distro is more of a personal choice than anything... ultimatly they all have the same software available to them (for the most part), they all just do it a little bit differently. -- Matt W

Re: [asterisk-users] Centos-5.2 and zaptel-1.4.11 do not get along well

2008-06-30 Thread Matt Watson
p I believe is the Xorcom AstriBank... if you don;t actually have an AstriBank then there is no sense in even compiling/installing the drivers for it. I;m guessing you haven't run a make menuselect to select only the drivers you need? -- Matt Watson http://www.mattgwatson.ca _

Re: [asterisk-users] No Codecs and app

2008-06-24 Thread Matt Watson
like you have installed asterisk-addons and not asterisk itself... if you compiled from source maybe you just forgot to 'make install' for asterisk? -- Matt Watson http://www.mattgwatson.ca ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http:/

Re: [asterisk-users] Controlling cell phone VM / Fax waiting notification icon for asterisk VM

2008-06-23 Thread Matt Watson
..does anyone want to create an app to send notification > to a cell phone to set/clear these bits? could you provide a link to where you got the info from? I'd be interested in seeing if i can get this to do anything useful. -- Matt Watson http://www.mattgwatson.ca

Re: [asterisk-users] Send cell phone #VM waiting, just like cell carrier

2008-06-22 Thread Matt Watson
ge me on my cell via dialup TAP (so my monitoring server can still page me in the event of an internet outage). Anyhow, sorry that message got a bit lengthy pretty fast! -- Matt Watson http://www.mattgwatson.ca ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provide

Re: [asterisk-users] *OT* DLI Ethernet Power Controller $289 (I paid $200 for a two port "webswitch")

2008-06-15 Thread Matt Watson
tle like buying stuff from Sony... you pay a bit of a brand tax just to have the APC logo printed on it. However I think that the APC logo on something means alot more than the Sony logo :) -- Matt Watson http://www.mattgwatson.ca ___ -- Bandwidth

Re: [asterisk-users] *OT* DLI Ethernet Power Controller $289 (I paid $200 for a two port "webswitch")

2008-06-15 Thread Matt Watson
o turning those ports on/off however is irrelavent to its device classification it could be a web interface like this device, a telnet/ssh interface, it might not even have any remote capability and just have physically switches for each port. --

Re: [asterisk-users] *OT* DLI Ethernet Power Controller $289 (I paid$200 for a two port "webswitch")

2008-06-15 Thread Matt Watson
PC model I mentioned in my last post will do load metering... it'll cost you about twice as much as the one Steve posted however. The sale price that is, couple hundred more than the regular price. -- Matt Watson http://www.mattgwatson.ca ___ --

Re: [asterisk-users] *OT* DLI Ethernet Power Controlle r $289 (I paid $200 for a two port "websw itch")

2008-06-15 Thread Matt Watson
ce with either however. All in all it looks like a decent product... i'd be interested in hearing from anybody that might of been using them for a long period of time (1-2yrs+). I'm pretty picky about power distribution, i've seen bad power cause too many problems in my com

Re: [asterisk-users] Please Advice on Best High traffi c fxo gateway/cards

2008-06-15 Thread Matt Watson
nd out of Asterisk was suitable for their organization... and it was seemingly like they were literally trying to offload their job to this list -- Matt Watson http://www.mattgwatson.ca ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-dig

Re: [asterisk-users] Problems configuring a PRI...

2008-06-10 Thread Matt Watson
uld matter, but you don;t need the duplicate group=, signalling=, switchtype= in zapata.conf 4. you can ditch rxwink= that setting is for non-PRI T1s try that and see if that helps... I suspect the span not being used as primary timing source is whats causing your greif. good luck! -- M

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax on FXS

2008-06-10 Thread Matt Watson
asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Fax on FXS On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 06:53:34PM -0400, Matt Watson wrote: > On June 9, 2008 01:34:31 pm Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote: > > You should not expect FaxOverVoiceOverIPOverInternet to work well. If > > you sti

Re: [asterisk-users] Interoffice phone setup

2008-06-09 Thread Matt Watson
spect that may be your problem. Might want to check the archives for other issues that people have talked about DNS as a possible cause and see if there are any similarities. -- Matt Watson http://www.mattgwatson.ca ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation P

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax on FXS

2008-06-09 Thread Matt Watson
end a fax through a VoIP system using a voice-codec like G.711 However, there is the T.38 protocol which is designed to solve this exact problem, Asterisk support for it is just rather limited currently (pass-thru only). T.38 often gets referred to as FoIP (Fax ove

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax on FXS

2008-06-09 Thread Matt Watson
the SIP ATAs obviously have to have T.38 support - for example a Linksys SPA2102 should do it for you. I've never tried faxing between ATA's so I don;t know if they can actually negotiate T.38 support between each other, but I don't really see a reason why they couldn't. --

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax on FXS

2008-06-07 Thread Matt Watson
ure for an FXS port to attach a fax machine to it... keep in mind that faxing over VoIP is extremely tricky at best, but if your entire call path is TDM then you shouldn;t have much of a problem. -- Matt Watson http://www.mattgwatson.ca ___ -

Re: [asterisk-users] fxotune vs rxgain/txgain

2008-06-06 Thread Matt Watson
In short, fxotune adjusts line impedance, where as adjusting gains I believe is essentially adjusting the amplification / deamplification of the signal. http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+fxotune -- Matt Watson http://www.mattgwatson.ca On June 6, 2008 12:43:51 am Noah Miller wrote

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.6 vs 1.4?

2008-06-04 Thread Matt Watson
ably isn't going to give you any benefit. -- Matt Watson http://www.mattgwatson.ca -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brent Davidson Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 11:52 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussio

Re: [asterisk-users] *#&%! Polycom...

2008-05-23 Thread Matt Watson
On May 23, 2008 05:27:49 pm Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > I used to do lots of Asterisk, but got "an offer I couldn't refuse," and > went SysAdmin. Well, now I'm trying to bring Asterisk in-house, and want > to set up a test system. One thing I'd really like to get my hands on is > recent firmware, etc

Re: [asterisk-users] forwarding pots lines

2008-05-23 Thread Matt Watson
On May 23, 2008 11:25:55 am Dennis P. Clark wrote: > Will fax and dial-up internet work through the gateway? > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe > Carroll > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 8:51 AM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-C

Re: [asterisk-users] Handling multiple fax machines and the fax extension, and general call routing

2008-05-22 Thread Matt Watson
On May 22, 2008 04:42:27 pm Steve Totaro wrote: > PS. Figured I would start with DHADI now. > psst. its DAHDI ;) -- Matt http://www.mattgwatson.ca ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users maili

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Wackyness

2008-05-22 Thread Matt Watson
On May 22, 2008 02:06:06 pm Jared Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 10:48 -0700, Douglas Garstang wrote: > > We didn't want to be generating actual network traffic for this, so I > > tried originating a call to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Why not try [EMAIL PROTECTED] and see if that solves the proble

Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk and sipura 3102 (pstn to sip/sip to pstn calls)

2008-05-21 Thread Matt Watson
Does your extensions.conf have any more configuration than what you've shown? If not, then you are lacking dialplan for anything but internal calls. -- Matt From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RoLaNd RoLaNd Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:01 AM To: asterisk-users@lists

Re: [asterisk-users] Server recommendation help

2008-05-20 Thread Matt Watson
You might want to see if you can change the IRQ assignments in your servers bios (might have to turn off the "PNP OS Installed" option if you have one) -- Matt From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cavanna, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax Machine Options

2008-05-20 Thread Matt Watson
k Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Fax Machine Options Matt Watson wrote: > I believe Asterisk 1.6 with app_fax supports T.38 origination and > termination, that is not gatewaying, however if origination and termination > are already there, gat

Re: [asterisk-users] Fax Machine Options

2008-05-20 Thread Matt Watson
The first part of this is kind of off topic as it doesn't answer OP's original question, but instead is a reply to one of the replies. Cisco is certainly not the only option for doing T38 gatewaying with Asterisk. I believe Asterisk 1.6 with app_fax supports T.38 origination and termination, th

Re: [asterisk-users] Fedora 9 + Asterisk

2008-05-19 Thread Matt Watson
On May 19, 2008 06:49:23 pm Kevin Smith wrote: > I almost hate to admit this...but I'm still running Asterisk 1.2 on > Fedora 4 :D IMO theres nothing wrong with running an old version of * or an old version of the OS... as long as the box doesn't have a public IP bound to it. If its an internal-

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk first time user

2008-05-19 Thread Matt Watson
On May 19, 2008 03:21:34 pm Aaron Stranberg wrote: > Folks, > We are a small office with remote users less than 20 total phone > extensions, and I am looking for some guidance on choosing between > asterisknow and a centos/ubuntu or any other os with an asterisk + > asteriskgui build out? Lookin

Re: [asterisk-users] BLF Compatible Phones

2008-05-19 Thread Matt Watson
On May 19, 2008 12:51:09 pm Grygoriy Dobrovolskyy wrote: > Hmm, i dont like aastra really much, their transfer management is not human > friendly ;) What do you mean by that? I've run my Aastra's with BLF using both Aastra's 'blf' mode and 'blfxfer' mode... the former is basically attended tran

Re: [asterisk-users] Digium Card: Power Connector, from SATA to NORMAL

2008-05-17 Thread Matt Watson
On May 17, 2008 06:59:43 am Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Sat, 17 May 2008, bilal ghayyad wrote: > > Well, why Digium is still using this kind of power > > connector while all new machines does not come with > > these types? > > The new machines that I buy come with "legacy" power connectors. The fl

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk concurrent calls count

2008-05-16 Thread Matt Watson
You can NOT use bogomips as any kind of measurement for system performance. First of all, Bogomips is a linux-specific thing and not available on other OS that Asterisk runs on. The second, and far more important point. "Bogo" is taken from the word "Bogus". Bogomips are not a measurement of

Re: [asterisk-users] *72 Telco Call Forwarding

2008-05-15 Thread Matt Watson
Is there any reason you don't want to use Wait()? However, I would use WaitForRing() myself - its also a great solution on dirty analog lines where you receive "phantom calls". That being said, I don't know how to do it without using some form of Wait.. as far as I know zapata.conf doesn't prov

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk for Larg

2008-05-15 Thread Matt Watson
You'd probably want to run something else to handle your registrations like OpenSER with that many phones. -- Matt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bhrugu Mehta Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:31 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Com

Re: [asterisk-users] BLF Compatible Phones

2008-05-13 Thread Matt Watson
I'm using Aastra 57i + 560M sidecars for receptionists... the only downside is that they support a max of 50 BLF subscriptions... you can setup up to 180 blf keys with 3 560Ms but it will still only subscribe to a max of 50... from what I understand it's a firmware limitation. For 4-6 phones yo

Re: [asterisk-users] Call only for registered sip users...

2008-05-13 Thread Matt Watson
Do you mean "What do I need to configure on my * installation so that only registered sip users can make calls?" ? If so, you are going to need to give a lot more details regarding your current configuration for you to get any answers. -- Matt From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: [asterisk-users] 3U server chassis & Digium TE405P?

2008-05-12 Thread Matt Watson
I'm not sure if a full-height card would fit (vertically) in a 3U chassis... but I would probably also assume that if it would not, that the chassis/mobo would have a PCI/PCI-Express riser card that would mount the cards horizontally. Might want to check that out with the manufacturer of the cha

[asterisk-users] Digium AEX410

2008-05-11 Thread Matt Watson
Poking around the zaptel SVN earlier today i see support was added for an AEX410 card recently... I'm going to go out on a limb and assume this is the PCI-Express version of the TDM410? Any hints on a general availability date? -- Matt ___ -- Bandwi

Re: [asterisk-users] Anyone Know How to Have Asterisk Work Like GranCentral and Require a Touch-Tone to Connect?

2008-05-11 Thread Matt Watson
I just took a quick look at the dialplan that freepbx uses for doing call confirmation... the dialplan part of it is actually quite simple... its just a matter of setting the USE_CONFIRMATION varialbe =TRUE. However, the actual magic looks like it happenes through its dialparties.agi... which i

Re: [asterisk-users] Anyone Know How to Have Asterisk Work Like GranCentral and Require a Touch-Tone to Connect?

2008-05-11 Thread Matt Watson
FreePBX has this functionality... they call it "Confirm Calls" I;m not sure if you can set it on actual extensions, but I know you can set it on ring groups. I don't imagine the dialplan for doing it is very complicated if you wanted to do it by hand. -- Matt __

Re: [asterisk-users] Best Linux distribution to use in Asterisk server

2008-05-10 Thread Matt Watson
I'm a Gentoo guy myself too... but the best advice I can give is just re-hashing what others have already set... pick whatever you are the most comfortable with... and if support contracts are important to you, then that will be a factor as well. I've used most of bigger distros out there over

Re: [asterisk-users] DUNDi call impossible in one direction

2008-05-07 Thread Matt Watson
Are you using IAX2 as your transport between the 2 servers or SIP? If you are using IAX2, are you using Asterisk 1.4.18.1 or 1.4.19.1 on either machine? If so, you may be encountering the IAX2 bug that some have been discussing on the list recently you can read it here: http://lists.digium

Re: [asterisk-users] dundi network - redundancy / fault tolerance ?

2008-05-07 Thread Matt Watson
I don;t have any answers for you... But I would love to hear about the results after you get this working and what road blocks you hit and how you overcame them. -- Matt From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ex Vito [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [asterisk-users] Setting the TOS using IPtables screws up the DSCP field

2008-05-07 Thread Matt Watson
Why are you trying to change the ToS from 46 (0x2e) Expedited for the RTP/RTCP packets to 16 (0x10)? I mean... these values really only need to be meaningful to yourself, your switches, your routers etc however ToS 46 (0x2e) is the "standard" value for RTP / RTCP as it is basically the hig

Re: [asterisk-users] better enumlookup handler

2008-05-07 Thread Matt Watson
There is a enumlookup.agi that is included with FreePBX and thus trixbox, PBX in a flash, etc. etc. If you have trouble finding it let me know and I can send you it. I can;t really vouch for its quality, but I do use it and it does work... but i;m not sure how well it handles multiple results.

Re: [asterisk-users] Storing voicemail on samba share

2008-05-06 Thread Matt Watson
It would probably be wiser to run an IMAP server and do imap storage instead of writing to a cifs-mounted directory... or use ODBC storage... assuming they are running a database server somewhere. I don't have any experience with having * write voicemail files to CIFS/SMBFS, but I also think it

Re: [asterisk-users] "This e-mail is confidential" ... (was: Re: PRI D-Channel reconfiguration = crash asterisk?)

2008-05-06 Thread Matt Watson
Behalf Of Philipp Kempgen Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:27 PM To: Asterisk Users Subject: [asterisk-users] "This e-mail is confidential" ... (was: Re: PRI D-Channel reconfiguration = crash asterisk?) Matt Watson schrieb: > Disclaimer Statement: This e-mail is confidential and is in

Re: [asterisk-users] PRI D-Channel reconfiguration = crash asterisk?

2008-05-06 Thread Matt Watson
My bad, I also should of mentioned... That was on Asterisk 1.4.18 and Zaptel 1.4.10 Using a TE220B -- Matt From: Matt Watson Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:02 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: PRI D-Channel reconfiguration = crash asterisk? Hello, I just

[asterisk-users] PRI D-Channel reconfiguration = crash asterisk?

2008-05-06 Thread Matt Watson
Hello, I just had to have MTS Allstream fix a new T1 install that we have that we aren't running in production yet, but it is attached to a production machine. Apparently they setup the T1 with only a 1 B-channel (how useful!) even though we had ordered it fully loaded with 23. Anyways... th

Re: [asterisk-users] Performance issues

2008-05-06 Thread Matt Watson
Google is awesome http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+AGI -- Matt From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of chetherston miles Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 10:20 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [asterisk-users] Performance issues Hel

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk in Production ?

2008-05-06 Thread Matt Watson
I'm using 1.4.18 in production on 2 boxes... one of which being a custom built desktop basically, the other being a Dell 1950 III We are in a migration phase to the Dell box, right now the 1st box is doing nothing more than being a PSTN gateway to some FXO lines... basically waiting for numbers

Re: [asterisk-users] China vaults past USA in Internet users - now 220 million users in China

2008-05-04 Thread Matt Watson
What Godaddy.com has told you is more or less correct. Its not their fault that Chinese visitors cannot hit your pages... the internet is China is highly censored, and quite often they firewall even very large big name sites like BBC news. Typically they block sites that have any type discuss

Re: [asterisk-users] AGI asterisk high balance

2008-05-03 Thread Matt Watson
There is really no reason why you cannot. Personally... I'd avoid using Java for AGI's that you think are going to receive heavy use... simply because the JVM adds a lot of overhead, and possibly a very real performance impact from having the load the JVM everytime. Of course there is overhead

Re: [asterisk-users] rebooting newer cisco phones

2008-05-02 Thread Matt Watson
I don't know about the Cisco phones... I;m using Aastra phones which I can send a SIP NOTIFY to have them check for updated config... when they detect a new config they reboot themselves and download the new config. But your switch might also have an option to disable PoE on a per-port basis...

Re: [asterisk-users] Zaptel 1.4.10.1 Released

2008-05-01 Thread Matt Watson
err, that should of read TE220B From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 3:24 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Zaptel

Re: [asterisk-users] Zaptel 1.4.10.1 Released

2008-05-01 Thread Matt Watson
Does anybody know if this version fixes the soft lockup during ztcfg using a TE200B? http://bugs.digium.com/print_bug_page.php?bug_id=12468 -- Matt From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Asterisk Development Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [asterisk-users] Hyperthreading and multicore

2008-04-29 Thread Matt Watson
This is my understanding of hyper threading, which I believe to be accurate. Basically, as some have mentioned previously, the OS 'sees' your single physical core processor as 2 logical processors, in generally, logical processors are treated exactly as if they were real processors, and in the c

Re: [asterisk-users] choopy audio when both side talk at the same time

2008-04-25 Thread Matt Watson
You might want to begin with tuning your rxgain and txgain settings... there are a few methods for doing this on the internet, unfortunatly nobody can give you exactly values to use for tx/rxgain as they will be not only specific to your install, but specific to every single analog line you have

Re: [asterisk-users] Digium B410P or Sangoma A502D?

2008-04-24 Thread Matt Watson
I haven;t used any BRI cards but... call me crazy but wouldn;t they still be using Zaptel (even your sangoma... the script might just be configuring it for you)... and btw, software echo cancel happens in the zaptel kernel driver... it has nothing to do with the hardware (hence why its a softwa

Re: [asterisk-users] AST-2008-006 - 3-way handshake in IAX2 incomplete

2008-04-22 Thread Matt Watson
I can;t imagine what headaches you'd have going from 1.4.11 to 1.4.19.1... that is a minor version upgrade... no real change in functionality thats basically 8 versions of bug fixes... if you just apply the IAX2 patch, you'll be fixing 1 out of probably a hundreds of bugs. Going from 1.4.x

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