Re: [asterisk-users] Nufone problems

2007-07-27 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=C F
 Why is their DNS failing?

Looks like ns1 is down.  Probably their master DNS server.
ns2 is up, but looks like their zone expired, since it could not refresh
from ns1, so it is no longer reporting authoritative for nufone.net.

They should look into longer expiry times on their SOA record.

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Re: [asterisk-users] 10 FXS - Channel Bank or PCI Card?

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
I would look into one of these:
http://www.digium.com/en/products/hardware/analogcards.php

quote who=Gavin Henry
 Hi All,

 What do you recommend? I was looking at:

 http://www.voipon.co.uk/sangoma-a200-fxo-fxs-analogue-card-pci-express-p-393.html

 But it will be 3 PCI slots.

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RE: [asterisk-users] Funky BIND/named errors

2007-04-25 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Yuan LIU
From: Brett Crapser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apr 24 11:02:38 asterisk named[1072]:
lame server resolving 'pbx_loopback.so' (in'so'?): 205.166.226.38#53
Apr 24 11:02:38 asterisk named[1072]:
lame server resolving 'pbx_dundi.so' (in 'so'?): 205.166.226.38#53
Apr 24 11:02:38 asterisk named[1072]:
lame server resolving 'pbx_spool.so' (in 'so'?): 205.166.226.38#53

 Looks unrelated to Asterisk.  More like one of DNS servers used by
 Asterisk.

Actually it looks like Asterisk is querying DNS for pbx_loopback.so
and the likes.

Check for typo's in your DUNDi config.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] AstriCon 2006 Location

2005-09-19 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Matt Fredrickson
 On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 11:32:00AM -0500, Brian Capouch wrote:
 Yes, but what would one do there?

 One who doesn't gamble, drink, or carouse, that is.

 I am making my first trip to LV later this Fall, and I dread it.
 I can't imagine what I'll be able to find to do when I'm not at
 the conference.

 It's ok, I don't either  :-)  I was actually kind of wondering
 the same thing.  I'm sure there's something to do that doesn't
 involve all of that.

If you are willing to spend some money (not on gambling...)

I went and saw the shows.

Magician Lance Burton
Cirque du Soleil - Mystere Ka O Zumanity
Blue Man Group

Try going to http://www.lasvegas24hours.com/
On the left, put in the dates you will be there and it will find
the shows available.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Digium Website Update: Asterisk Business Edition

2005-06-13 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com;
 Protecting freedoms by putting limits on (thus restricting freedoms).
 Interesting concept.

It maybe an interesting concept, but it is absolutely true.
True anarchy (no rules what so ever) cannot exist.

Your freedom to kill me would impose on my freedom to live.

Lift all laws and the law of the universe seems to come into play.
The strong rules the weak.  You end up with a dictatorship.

To keep something free, there must be a law stopping it from not
becoming not free.  (bad english, but there it is. :) )

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] why even use SIP

2005-03-24 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
Because the video driver is a kernel thread and not allowed to lag.
That would cause framerate issues with games. :)

oh winderz...

quote who=Sys Admin
 On a dell insipiron 600m laptop with 512 MB RAM each time i maximize
 or minimize even a small application like putty the firefly softphone
 looses sound for 1/2 a second.  Why is the softphone application so
 bad that it can not even handle another application being maximized
 and minimized. This really throws me off !!


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RE: [Asterisk-Users] OT: Best DB

2005-03-15 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Giudice, Salvatore
 So, let me see if I am right. You run a support shop? You want your
 database to validate your data for you instead of leaving that logic
 to
 your application? Usually, a database is considered to be an asset
 worth
 protecting from unvalidated user input. Also, do you routinely try to
 insert text strings into fields, which are not created large enough to
 accept these strings? This is somewhat disturbing.

Data validation should be done at all levels.  Period.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Text Messaging or AIM

2005-03-14 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=C F
 Why not, just use the email address given before from you email
 client.

So, you can generate an SMS message on your Cell phone and send it
to your, say, hotmail account?  Or are you talking about using
an embeded email client on the phone to create an email.  Not using
SMS at all?

 I have my asterisk box setup in voicemail.conf to send me
 notifications to me cell phone using this method. I'm a Sprint
 subscriber (I used to be Verizon, and it worked with them as well), so
 I have * setup to send me an email to
 [EMAIL PROTECTED], letting me know
 there is a new voicemail waiting for me, callerID of caller, and
 duration and in which mailbox. I can then call back my * box and
 listen to the messages, I like this better than the callback feature
 b/c I can do it on my time.

This is easy.  Just put the phonenum@carrier.com address in the
definition of the voicemail box in voicemail.conf.

Though this is not the direction I have been talking about.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Text Messaging or AIM

2005-03-14 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Eric Wieling
 Robert Hajime Lanning wrote:
 um, backwards.  E-Mail to SMS.  I have not seen the other way
 around.

 Both Cingular and Verizon supports both.


I have not tried this, nor have I seen any documentation mentioning
it.  Do you or anyone else have a pointer for the info?
Especially for Cingular, as that is what I am with, currently.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Text Messaging or AIM

2005-03-14 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=C F
 There is no info involved here, you make it sound like you need some
 docs, why? just take out the manual of your phone, and look up how to
 send messages. Since you have a cingular phone just go ahead and try
 it. You afraid of the bill? send it to me :) (never said I'm going to
 pay it).

Sorry, I was assuming that only an ANI can go into the to field of
an SMS message.  Did not realize that you can place an email address
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Text Messaging or AIM

2005-03-13 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
That is if you have a local connection into an SMS network.
I have heard this is available on some European ISDN systems.

In the US, good luck. Outside of getting a GSM phone and
connecting it to your system via a serial port and some sort
of GSM SMS application.

Your best bet is an IM system.  I am looking into this for myself,
as IM access to things like Nagios and Asterisk.

I have an AIM client on my phone, so my plan is:
Jabber gateway to AIM
A Perl daemon to watch for incoming IMs and monitoring events to
generate outgoing IMs.  The daemon can then act on IMs coming
from my phone and do things like drop in a .call file.

You will need two AIM accounts, one for your phone/user access
and one for the daemon.

There are SMS sending gateways out there, but they are sending
only, no way to receive.  This is fixed in the IM solution by
giving the system an account of its own.

quote who=Scheda
 I found what that was, http://ruk.ca/article/1832 is the link. Not
 exactly what I want, but I also found this.

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

 That seems to be what I want. I can send an SMS message, and then
 configure it to call me once it recieves it.


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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Text Messaging or AIM

2005-03-13 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Matthew Asham
 On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 11:14, Peter Svensson wrote:

 Whatever gave you that idea? Most operators have an interface
 allowing reception of sms:es over internet. The protocols may
 be strange (they are) and the pricing models vary greatly, but
 there are many receive interface to sms:es.

 I've been wondering about this for some time, is there a common
 product name for this service?

It's called http://www.Mblox.com/ :)

Well, I was talking about free (on the computer side) SMS generation
and reception.  Generation is easy, all providers (atleast in the
US) give an email-SMS gateway, or a website to post to.  Reception
is the problem.  That is why I was talking about using an IM service.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Text Messaging or AIM

2005-03-13 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=C F

 Well, as far as I know there is no such service in the USA. Take in
 mind that SMS is not so popular in the states, email is, and every
 cell phone in the US that I have seen that supports SMS, supports SMS
 to email from the phone as well.

um, backwards.  E-Mail to SMS.  I have not seen the other way around.

Just take a look at this:
 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=569ncid=738e=1u=/nm/20050313/tc_nm/column_pluggedin_dc
 Most providers have an SMS to email gateway. To send a message to any
 SprintPCS phone use: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
 for Verizon use: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know for
 the others. There is also a problem that since Number Portability came
 in last year there is no way of knowing which phone number belongs to
 which provider.


Yup, I've messed with ATT's gateway before, they were bought by
Cingular/SBC.

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RE: [Asterisk-Users] OT: Best DB

2005-03-11 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Giudice, Salvatore
 Security events generated from IDS.

That is called logging noise.
That must have been a experiment in statistic anomalies and trends.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Call Manager Express Peer

2005-02-22 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Nathan Alberti
 I have the following defined in sip.conf

 [ccme-in]
 type=peer
 host=10.0.9.1
 context=devel_in
 disallow=all
 allow=alaw
 nat=no
 canreinvite=yes
 qualify=yes

 and [devel_in] is defined in extentions.conf

 However when I try to call via the dial peer I have configured on the
 cisco (below) I get :

type=peer is for going out of asterisk to the peer
For inbound calls, type=user
For one entry that does both, type=friend

Though, it is recommended to have two entries, one peer for outbound
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Anyone having trouble with VoicePulse Connect?

2005-02-19 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=beonice
 Robert, thank you very much for that informative
 write-up. Of course, I now have more questions. The
 first is really basic. I thought extension meant
 something the caller dials _after_ reaching asterisk.
 How come incoming DIDs have to be handled as if they
 are extensions?

Actually the answer is better shown when looking at
DID analog trunks.  Analog trunks are just POTS lines.
With inbound DID analog trunks, the side that provides
the voltage and dialtone are reversed.  The CO looks
like a phone and your PBX looks like the CO.

So when a call comes in, the CO picks up the phone
to your PBX and dials the DID number.  In this case,
there is no callerID available.

 [DID]
 exten = _X.,1,Goto(PublicExtensions,8001,1)


 But won't this match every single number possible?
 Including the extensions I set up? So, for example, if
 I had an extension '1234', it would also be sent to
 PublicExtensions extension 8001 with priority 1, as
 would someone calling extension 8001, as well as
 someone calling in from any DID. I'm totally confused
 about the way this would behave.

This is why you use a seperate context ([DID]) for
DID's.  DID trunks go into the DID context.  Your station
channels go into some other internal context, that
contains your real extension numbers.  The DID context
will match DID's to extensions that exist in other contexts.
In my example, I have PublicExtensions which is a list of
extensions that are available via my main phone number and
it gets included in my PrivateExtensions context which is
where my internal channels drop into.

Just remember that contexts seperate out extensions.
Extension 8001 in context internal has nothing to
do with extension 8001 in context inbound.  You can
definately point on towards the other, but there is no
intrinsic relationship between the two.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Anyone having trouble with VoicePulse Connect?

2005-02-18 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=beonice
 If I understood the little documentation I found on
 's', it's supposed to be a catchall for ALL incoming
 calls. That's why I assumed it would catch a DID as
 well. If that's not the case, it really should be
 updated in some meta-doc somewhere. :)

s is the start extension if there is not one already
provided.  When DID comes in, the channel is kindof predialed.
This is with most digital calls, SIP, IAX, H323, ISDN/PRI...


 So what happens if the DID is _not_ a US DID? I've
 seen users here from Europe and Asia as well ... does
 each country need its own mapping to catch the
 appropriate incoming DID?

DID's are specific to your system.  If you have 4 digit
extensions and I was setup as a user, then I would need
to send you the 4 digit extension I am trying to get to.

When you purchase DID from a provider, be it VoicePulse over
IAX2 or your local carrier via a PRI, they will dictate what
the DID looks like.  Some will be the last 4 digits, others
will be all 10. (assuming US).  They do this, because it would
be to difficult to maintain your extension mapping on their side.

You purchase a DID.  When a call comes in it says, This is the
number they were calling, you do your own matching to whatever
extension you want.

 Now, what about the folks who are trying to call other
 countries, and potentially be called by other DIDs
 themselves? I'm assuming this sort of thing is very
 likely.

Usually you do not use wildcards for DIDs.  This is because
people normally purchase more than one.  So, you need to
distinguish between phone numbers.

I currently have two numbers from VoicePulse, so my extensions.conf
has this: (numbers are changed to avoid crank calls)

[DID]
exten = _4157611829,1,Goto(PublicExtensions,8001,1)
exten = _4157611763,1,Goto(PublicExtensions,8003,1)

So, all inbound calls from VoicePulse goto this context.
I jump from here to the extension I want the external phone
number mapped to.

If you get multiple numbers (say regional numbers) and you
want all of them to goto the same place, you can wildcard
like this: (gets past the international numbering differences)

[DID]
exten = _X.,1,Goto(PublicExtensions,8001,1)

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Why echo occurs

2005-02-12 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Steve Underwood
 Wrong. Look at any cellular phone or IP phone. They all have echo
 cancellers. If you switch these cancellers off the results are
 generally bad. What they need to remove is the acoustic spill
 from the earpiece to the mike. This can be a surprisingly strong
 signal.

While acoustic spill can be an issue, I do not believe it is
the primary source of 90% of the echo experienced.

I do not know of any IP phone that contains an echo canceler other
than speaker phones.

Find a situation where you think the echo is acoustic spill, then
try it with a hands free head set.

If you notice, the echo is a repeat once type of echo.  Not the
fading echo of a loop, that acoustic spill would cause.

All the echo that I have been talking about, you hear yourself once,
just delayed.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Why echo occurs

2005-02-12 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Rich Adamson
 The sidetone is 'always' generated within analog and digital phones.
 It never comes from any source outside the phone. In analog phones,
 it derived from the hybrid within the phone. On digital phones, its
 basically firmware.

I never said that sidetone was generated outside the phone.

The hybrid is the conversion from the dual channel (4 wire,
transmit/receive) to the single channel (2 wire, the POTS line).

The audio injection point that I was talking about in my
previous email, is the location of the hybrids.  The hybrid is
supposed to automaticaly cancel echo, but it takes precise
impedance matching to pull it off.

In an analog phone, the sidetone is a side-effect of the hybrid.
In a digital phone, the sidetone is on purpose.

 The conversion from four-wire (analog or digital) to two-wire requires
 the use of a hybrid (physical component in analog phones, mostly
 firmware in digital phones).

The hybrid is an analog device.  When I am talking digital, I am
talking about technology like ISDN.  In a single bearer channel,
I get 56Kbps out and 56Kbps in.  I do not see an echo of the
output on the input.  (This would cause massive issues when used
as a data call.)  The echo comes when and if I hit a conversion
to analog then hit a hybrid.  If the conversation is happening
purely digital end to end, then you will not get echo.  Just like
IP to IP.

 The 'inefficiencies' of that hybrid is
 the source of echo, regardless of where they happen to be in the
 end-to-end communications path. Since it is impossible to know what
 each telephone company or long distance carrier has engineered, its
 not possible to guess at where hybrids might exist in that path.
 It is fair to say the number of hybrids is very small now compared
 to twenty years ago, but they do exist at least at both ends of a
 communications path.

This is true, as long as the path has an analog 2-wire leg.  Though
where the ends are that the hybrid is located could be lopsided.

Say I have a PRI into the PSTN.  I call a friend who has POTS service.
Now days, the path will be digital from my PRI all the way to my
friend's central office.  At that point it gets split off the trunk,
converted to analog, passed through a hybrid, and placed on the wire
pair to my friend's house.  Then, through the hybrid in his phone.
So, the echo I hear is from the hybrid in the central office and
the echo my friend hears is from the hybrid in his phone, which is
so close to him, that it becomes sidetone.

The previous paragraph is based on where I live (Silicon Valley),
the location of the central office hybrid maybe different, depending
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Why echo occurs

2005-02-12 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Steve Underwood
 Can you show me an ad for an IP phone which doesn't say it includes an
 echo canceller? A real phone, I mean. Not some thrown together half
 baked softphone, many of which do a very poor job.

I haven't once talked about soft phones.  I don't use them.  I am
talking about hardphones that talk SIP.

Take the grandstream phones.  Put them back to back, and I gaurentee
you will never hear echo, unless you are in the same room.  Then you
can put the handsets together and get all the screech you want.

I have not found anywhere that is says it has an echo canceler.

 Who introduced a loop into the discussion?

I did.  Because acoustic spill would most likely cause a loop.

Why do I get the feeling you are trolling?  You are the only
one that brought up acoustic spill.  Which, by the way, is
usualy controled by directional mics and adjusted gains.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Why echo occurs

2005-02-12 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Steve Underwood
 Maybe http://www.grandstream.com.cn/BT100_Spec_cn.pdf is a bit
 confusing if you can't read Chinese, but I think G.168 should
 be easy to identify :-)

ok, I did miss that.  Then again, the grandstream does have a
speaker phone.  I guess the problem is that I don't know of a
SIP hardphone that doesn't have a speaker phone.

 Acoustic spill gives basically the same effects as hybrid echo, except
 acoustic spill tends to be more variable over time. Hybrid echo also
 bounces back and forth when both ends are causing echo, but the first
 echo is so much stronger than the subsequent ones that you tend not to
 notice them.

 I have worked on echo cancellation, and I know the acoustic spill
 issue is serious. In early GSM phones it was often easy to fool the
 canceler, and GSM to GSM calls would suffer really awful echo. They
 seem to have improved the cancelers a lot in the last few years,
 and its rare to get this problem today. This is a broad issue. Echo
 cancelers have generally improved a lot. The latest version of
 G.168 is a very different document from the early versions, and
 incorporates tests for a lot of the problem issues found in earlier
 canceler designs.

I would expect it to be a problem in the GSM (cell) phones.  They
are too small to get proper acoustic separation.

I am talking about the phones that are physically designed the same
as analog phones.  Why do we not hear this echo in the analog device?
But, we do when it is digital.  This type of echo would always be
far end, as the near end would always be seen as sidetone.

 How do you control acoustic spill within a phone through the use of
 directional microphones? Adjusting gains mitigates the issue a bit,
 but is hardly a solution. These are just bodges, not solutions.

You can say the same about echo cancelers.  They patch the symptom,
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Why echo occurs

2005-02-12 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Rich Adamson
 Your original posting said the sidetone was coming from the distant
 phone and did not even come close to implying that sidetone is
 something always engineered into the local phone, regardless of
 whether its analog or digital. Sidetone is always local phone
 generated by design.

I went back and read my original post.  I did not say that the
sidetone was coming from the far end, but I was completely unclear
in what I was saying.

We have echo as A hears his own voice, but the timing makes it
perceived as sidetone.

Should have been more like: (using terms in the original email)
A hears his own voice coming from his mic's injection point,
which is close enough to his speaker to make the delay short
enough, so as it is perceived as sidetone.

I wonder if sidetone was in the original spec when creating the
hybrid, or was it added as a feature when they could not get
rid of it.

Did they get a 100% working hybrid, then say hey, I can't hear
myself!?

 A 100% perfect hybrid would never generate any feedback or echo.
 But, to date no one has been successful at designing such a beast.
 So a better way to say that is imperfections in the hybrid can
 cause echo as opposed to the hybrid is supposed to automatically
 cancel echo. There is no such thing as an echo canceller in a
 hybrid.

True.  I used the wrong wording.

 Not true at all. Sidetone _is_ designed into the hybrid in analog
 phones on purpose and has been for for at least 30 years.

My guess on that is above.

 Not true. Better take a look at the Silicon Labs chip sets that are
 used in the digium TDM card (as one example). The hybrid is 100%
 digital.

I probably shouldn't have made a blanket statement.  There really
isn't anything we can't simulate in digital, anymore.

And I doubt that sidetone is purposely put into the TDM cards.  It
just comes down to that we can't get rid of it. (hybrid imperfections)

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Why echo occurs

2005-02-11 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Eric Bishop
 Just out of interest,

 When echo occurs (the type where I hear myself echoing as I talk) what
 is bouncing against. Is it the other caller's equipment, the central
 office or something in between?

When you are talking via 4 wire or VoIP phones there is a seperate
outbound audio channel and inbound audio channel, niether the twain
shall meet  no echo

Except for POTS lines (2 wire)... where you have one audio channel
going in both directions.

So you have these: (fixed font spacing needed)

   A   Straight POTS  B
 --
speaker-speaker
 ||
mic  mic

A talks into mic and the audio is injected into the single
audio channel.  A almost immediatly hears his voice in his
own speaker, as the distance between the mic and the speaker
is short.  B hears A's speach a bit later traveling through
the long line.  We have echo as A hears his own voice, but the
timing makes it perceived as sidetone.

   A   ISDN/VoIP to POTS  B
 --
speaker--===O---speaker
 ||
mic  mic

A talk into mic and the audio is sent as a seperate channel
down the line.  At some point this channel is injected into
the single channel of the POTS line for B.  The return
channel to A picks up everything on the single channel POTS
line (wanting to get B's audio, but also getting A's injected
mic channel.)  The distance between A's mic, the injection
point and A's speaker combines to make the delay.  This delay
causes the echo to be heard as an echo and not a sidetone.

* some (not all) VoIP/ISDN phones will simulate sidetone by
sampling the mic and sticking it directly in the speaker.  This
is done because us humans are used to the POTS technology and
think the line is dead if we do not hear it.  The same goes for
comfort noise generation.  If the line is active we expect
analog white noise on it.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Callerid to set time on phone?

2005-02-08 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Robert Webb
 Is there a way to either pass the date and time along from my POTS
 line going through a TD400P with one FXO and one FXS to my phone?
 Or even have * send the date and time through the caller id when
 that extension is called??

It should already pass the time from the Asterisk system.  Mine
does that.  Though I have a T100P and a channelbank, not a TDM400P.

Make sure the system clock on your Asterisk box is set correctly.
I use ntpd http://www.ntp.org/.  And make sure all the callerID
options in zapata.conf are turned on.  It should set the clock,
even for an Unkown caller.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Open Source QoS .

2005-01-18 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Manjit Riat
 My router (1605R) currently does not support QoS. Is there any
 open source software available so that I can set one up before
 the router?

You may want to look at Linux's QoS features in the kernel.
You will want to set it up so that the external facing ethernet
port is throttled to your WAN link speed.  Then you QoS on top
of that.  You would need to do it this way, otherwise the Linux
kernel will be QoS'ing empty queues.  You want the transmit queue
on the WAN link to be as empty as possible and have all the
real queue management on the Linux box.

The biggest problem with QoS (on Internet links) is that you
really need it on both sides of the WAN link. (You can QoS outbound
traffic, but not inbound.)  Of course, I am assuming that you
need this on an Internet link.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] voicemail /w asterisk - voicemail() problems

2004-09-26 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
That is because it is a required argument.
http://voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+cmd+VoiceMail

And you can see the difference from voicemailmain():
http://voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+cmd+VoicemailMain

quote who=Vahan Yerkanian
 all my users are in 'sip' voicemail context, but adding context to it:
 voicemail(@sip) doesn't help.. while if I put a vmbox # to it, it
 works that way: voicemail([EMAIL PROTECTED]).

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk sudo from httpd

2004-09-05 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
Do not use sudo -u apache, that switches to the apache user and
runs the command /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx show version.

The asterisk command needs to be run as root, so your PHP script
would exec sudo /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx show version.

quote who=Roland Zagler
 Hello!

 I want to use asterisk -rx show version from a php script called
 in
 the browser using the local apache, which runs as user apache.
 Asterisk is running as root.

 I added the following line to /etc/sudoers using visudo:

  apacheALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/asterisk

 When i am on the command line of my linux box it looks like this:

 
 # sudo /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx show version

 Asterisk 1.0-RC2 built by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on a i686 running
 Linux

 # sudo -u apache /usr/sbin/asterisk -rx show version

 Unable to connect to remote asterisk
 

 strace showed me that there is an access problem with
 /var/run/asterisk.ctl:

 
 munmap(0xbf334000, 4096)= 0
 socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 3
 connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path=/var/run/asterisk.ctl}, 110) =
 -1
 EACCES (Permission denied)
 close(3)= 0
 time([1094419366])  = 1094419366
 fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 0), ...}) = 0
 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
 0) = 0xbf334000
 write(1, Unable to connect to remote aste..., 37) = 37
 munmap(0xbf334000, 4096)= 0
 exit_group(1)   = ?
 

 System description:
 Fedora Core 1
 Kernel 2.4.22
 Sudo 1.6.7p5
 Apache httpd 2.0.50
 Asterisk 1.0-RC2

 Can anyone please help?

 Thank you in advance!


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Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: New $89 VOIP phone

2004-08-18 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
That should work on a 100% full duplex switched network.

With good enough quality cable, the atinuation should be ok.
(no need for amplifiers)

The 300 foot limit was more about issues with late collisions.

In environments that you have collisions (half duplex), first bit
transmitted must reach the last machine in the broadcast domain,
before the last bit is tranmitted by the sending station.  If this
is not met, the transmitting station would not be able to detect
a collision, between the time the last bit is transmited and the
last station starts receiving.  The only way to extend the length,
in this senerio, is to either implement store and forward
switches/bridges that can retransmit the packet on behalf of the
sending station,placed every 300ft, or increase the minimum packet
size on the network.

quote who=Marcelo Pacheco
 On cable length, I heard there's people sucessfully using 900ft
 Ethernet cables, haven't seen one yet...

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RE: [Asterisk-Users] New $89 VOIP phone

2004-08-17 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Kanuri, Seshu
 All that you need is 64Kbps at the highest on these ports to
 establish a Voice call. Even if you are running a Video Phone,
 all you need may be 512Kbps at 32Fips.

 Why do you need any thing that is capable of a larger bandwidth?

He wasn't talking about it being useless to the phone, but in the
situation where you have a two port switch on the phone, clocked
at 10Mb.  What device are you going to chain off of the phone?
A PC would be a bad idea.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] [Q] DIDs

2004-08-14 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Peter Svensson
 Also known as DID service or called number information at various
 times.  You can have analog copper pots lines configured to send that
 information.  I don't know if Asterisk supports it. Anyone?

This is called an Analog DID Trunk.  Yes, Asterisk supports it.
You can have inbound calls only on this type of line.  Also, it
does not support CallerID.

The carrier's CO acts like a POTS analog handset.  When a call comes
in it simulates offhook status (puts a load on the line) and dials
into your PBX (Asterisk), by sending DTMF.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] ASTERISK AND 120 CONCURRENT CALLS

2004-08-06 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
Well, the G729 codec would need to be recompiled to take advantage
of the 64bit arch.

quote who=Robert Hanzlik
 What about Opteron or Ithanium, have somebody tryed it? Hope the
 results in transcoding may be more better?

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] FXO impedance matching

2004-06-22 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
Echo echo ech ech ec ec e e . .

:)

quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 What's the importance of the impedance matching in a FXO interface ?


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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Nufone Connection

2004-05-25 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Andrew Kohlsmith
 In short, you're making this problem worse.  Answer the damn support emails
 quickly and people won't see the need to post here.  I get the we got your
 support question, your ticket # is .. email quickly but then it tends to
 languish for a while.  I've only had a few support questions though, so my
 under-a-dozen number of support requests are likely not a good dataset to
 extrapolate from.

Same here.  Jeremy did respond to my question (about my account balance.)
But, it took almost whole week to come up with the answer, that I would get
a warning email when I use 75% of my original balance.

I opened the ticket on May 6th.  Requested an update on May 11th and 12th.
Finally, I got a response back on the 12th.

And I still don't have the real answer to What is my account balance?

I am right now, ok with that, as I am currently using Nufone for my personal
stuff.

But, I cannot use Nufone in a business.  How can I, if I cannot
depend on a monthly billing cycle and a way to forcast future budget.
I would need a way to close the books each month/quarter/year.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] using the asterisk mailbox utility

2004-05-24 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning


quote who=hank
 hello according to this user guide found at
 http://www.automated.it/guidetoasterisk.htm#_Toc49248768
 it says the following
 Voicemail - Please leave a message after the tone...

 Ok, so you've got the basics going, and it's great - if you happen to sit by
you phone all the time. What happens if you are out/away from your
desk/sleeping
 you'll miss those vital calls. We need to set up voicemail to capture all
those messages if we miss them.

edit /etc/asterisk/voicemail.conf

Then you will need to edit /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf
I use a macro for all my extensions:
[macro-stdextn]
exten = s,1,Dial(${ARG2},20,t)
exten = s,2,VoiceMail2(u${ARG1})
exten = s,3,Hangup
exten = s,102,VoiceMail2(b${ARG1})
exten = s,103,Hangup


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RE: [Asterisk-Users] Grandstream message light button

2004-05-24 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Dean Collins
 Lol - that's actually quite funny, they could have reduced the cost by
 removing the message button.

Well, the message button itself does work.  You can program the extension it
dials, from the web interface.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Using Exchange to send voicemail message

2004-04-25 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
IMAP and POP3 are used for the MUA to get access to a mailbox.  They are not
used for delivering messages to a mailbox, but for reading message out of a
mailbox.

What you are looking for, is an SMTP gateway.  Sendmail is an SMTP MTA that
can be configured to send the email (via SMTP/ESMTP) to the Exchange server.

All you really need to do is have the DNS MX records for foo.com pointing
to your Exchange server.  Then, in voicemail.conf you would have the email
address set to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Of course, change foo.com to whatever your domain, for the Exchange server, is.
And, make sure you have the SMTP connector configured for Exchange.

quote who=Paul Tyreman
 Hi,

 I run a local exchange server and would like asterisk to send voicemail
 notification messages via exchange.

 I have had a look at the voicemail.conf file, but I can't see how I would go
 about configuring it to use an account set up on exchange ?  The exchange
 account would have both POP3 and IMAP access, so how can I tell Asterisk to
 use the exchange account rather then sendmail ?

 Thanks, Paul.

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RE: [Asterisk-Users] Repeated Notice: (UN/REACHABLE)

2004-04-21 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Adam
 Goryachev
 Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 2:29 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Repeated Notice: (UN/REACHABLE)


 Should this actually attempt more than a single ping before claiming the
 remote is unreachable?
 ie, one packet (out of the two - one request + one reply) might be lost
 or intermittent congestion might be involved.

 Perhaps a config option for setting number of consecutive ping requests
 are un-responsive. Also, subsequent requests might be sooner than
 otherwise queued.

 ie, successfully answered probes are re-sent every 60 seconds, while
 after an un-successful probe, we re-send the next probe in 10
 seconds

 Just my 0.02c worth

That would be more robust/quicker to recover.  You do have to remember that
the RTP session (when you make a call) does not try to recover.  So, usually
when the SIP poke fails, the RTP would be of bad quality.

quote who=Bisker, Scott (7805)
 On a somewhat related note.  I was experiencing some random SIP UN/REACHABLE
 messages during random points during the day.  This would also come
 hand-in-hand with poor SIP call quality (jitters, stutters, etc).  Yesterday I
 was tryint to debug a choppy SIP phone and it just so happened that I was in
 my lab , and noticed that we were using Ghostcast server over multicast to
 send images to some new PCs.  On a whim, I cancelled the ghostcast session and
 the problem immediatly vanished.  Must be a misconfig on the switch (Cisco Cat
 4500 with all copper 10/100/1000 ports ) cause the switch load was minimal,
 but somehow the multicast traffic was screwing with the SIP transmission over
 the wire.  Just something for other people to look for.

You would need to configure the switch for IGMP snooping and the ghost clients
need to send multicast group membership requests, that the switch will be able
to snoop.  Otherwise multicast traffic is broadcast to every active port.  So,
it is not the switch that is being overrun, it is your SIP endpoints, that are
flooded with the ghost traffic.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Repeated Notice: (UN/REACHABLE)

2004-04-20 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
When you have qualify=yes or some number, then asterisk will poke at the
peer, to measure latency.

If the peer does not reply or the reply takes to long, you get the
UNREACHABLE message, and you will not be able to send/receive calls to/from
that channel.

When the peer starts replying within the latency threshold, you will get the
REACHABLE message, and you will be able to send/receive calls to/from that
channel.

I get it alot from FWD.  Usualy means the peer is to busy (FWD) or something
between you and the peer is unstable or over utilized.

quote who=Barton Fisher
 I see repeated over and over the following messages:

 NOTICE[1142106560]: chan_sip.c:4988 handle_response: Peer '1001' is now
 REACHABLE

 then 5 minutes later:

 NOTICE[1142106560]: chan_sip.c:5958 sip_poke_noanswer: Peer '1001' is now
 UNREACHABLE

 both messages repeated over and over

 Any clue what I can do to fix this?

 Is there any where I can look up these Notices to find meaning?

 Thanks

 Bart


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RE: [Asterisk-Users] Channel Bank?

2004-04-07 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=John Vogel

 Four or five analog lines can be done with a single computer so no channel
 bank is needed. If you need 6 or more than there is also the choice of using
 two machines and IAX.

Talk about port density issues.  So, if he really needs all 12 lines, then he
needs 3 PCs? (He probably doesn't need all 12.)

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk / SMP / Scalability

2004-04-07 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Darren Sessions
 I've got Asterisk loading 100,000+ extensions in extensions.conf. This
 process is taking a little upwards of 10 minutes to complete on each of my
 dual 3.2Ghz HP DL380 with SuSE Linux Enterprise 8 boxes.

 Although asterisk creates child processes, it appears that it is only using
 a single processor to parse extensions.conf. I've turned off Hyper Threading
 on the servers which has increased the extensions.conf parsing speed, but
 not by more than a couple minutes.

 Is this a bug, or simply the way Asterisk works during startup? If it is the
 way Asterisk works during startup, would it be safe to say that once started
 - that the child processes would function?

This behaviour is just for parsing *.conf files.

You may want to put the extensions into a database and use an AGI script to
perform extension routing.  (Though, I think it would bypass CDR.)

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Channel Bank?

2004-04-06 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Ken
 Hello, I'm new to Asterisk and would like to know how you could have 4
 to 6 incoming analog POTS lines connecting to the Asterisk server and
 have 4 to 6 analog lines going out.(A T1 line is too costly). Would 2
 channel banks be used?

A T1 channelbank has 24 channels, so only 1 is needed.

FXO channels (What you connect to the POTS lines) can be both inbound and
outbound.  If you are not using DID.  So, you just need to find out how many
concurrent calls you need to support.

If you are using analog DID lines, then those are inbound only, and require
FXS ports.  (You supply dialtone and battery, the carrier's switch picks up
your line and dials into your PBX.)

Now, there are multiple ways to get the analog lines into Asterisk...
   o use an external gateway...  POTS - SIP - Asterisk
   o wait until next month and get the FXO multiport cards from Digium
   o get a T1 card + channelbank

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RE: [Asterisk-Users] The maximum capacity of MeetMe

2004-04-05 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Andrew Thompson
 I regret that I've only used MeetMe a few times, and only up to two users.

Well, the problem with giving general stats, is that it REALLY depends on the
exact environment.

Key points: (on a server dedicated for conferences only)
  o number of channels
  o types of channels
  o codecs used (and ratio)
  o number of conferences
  o number of channels in the conferences

Then givin the interupt load, cpu load, i/o load, memory load and bandwidth for
each of these variables, you can find what hardware will run the load you want.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] IAX2 as an IETF Standard?

2004-03-24 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Adam Hart
 I also like to see two
 people behind the same nat being able to communicate directly (without
 requiring pin-wheeling). Ie The client attaches their private ip to the
 register packet, which is used when client A  B's public ips match.

192.168.1.0/24 -- NAT-BOX -- Internet -- NAT-BOX -- 192.168.1.0/24
   | | |
   IAX phoneAsterisk-Box   IAX phone

umm... I would suggest the default setting to be off, as the above topology
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] IAX2 as an IETF Standard?

2004-03-24 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Adam Hart
 from my post: which is used when client A  B's public ips match.
 meaning in this situation both clients would have different public IPs
 and it wouldn't be used.

Do'h!!  My bad.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Integration with Evolution.

2004-03-20 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Steve Murphy
 Have a look:  http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=55854

Since you don't want Jane magicaly making John dial Claire, there would need
to be individule login authentication that would only allow Jane to dial and
connect her channel.

So, this is not just Evolution hacking.  Asterisk needs a DB + API for enforcing
triple A security.  (Authentication, Authorization, Accounting)

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Should List be Moderated?

2004-03-18 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning


quote who=James Golovich
 And thus Asterisk-Biz was born.
 (http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz)

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: unknown user: asterisk-biz-request

So, when will it be fully up?

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RE: [Asterisk-Users] NuFone?

2004-03-17 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 I have used both VoicePluse and Nufone. I have to say that the support and
 the service I have gotten from NuFone is second to none.  They are quick to
 respond, they had me up in no time.

I have Nufone and I would have to say, their network is top.  I have not had
any network outages, delays, or otherwise.

Their business side (and trouble shooting) is not ready for prime time.

Issues:
  o NO BILLING!
  o no detailed accounting
  o no way to check your account other than emailing a request.
- I may setup a cron job to request my account ballance once a week.
  o I couldn't dial 800 numbers via Nufone (IAXTel and PSTN worked)
- I had forwarded him all pertinent information from my configs - All I
got from support was, Everyone else can. and I can't reproduce
  it and we treat 800 the same as all other US calls, even after I had
suggested that it wasn't him, it was the carrier he passes the call to.
- I finally figured out that his carrier requires exactly 10 digits in the
  callerID, for tollfree numbers.  This requirement does not exist for any
other US number.

I am wondering when Nufone will get serious about being a business with
customers to be responsible to.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] 800 Numbers (was Re: NuFone?)

2004-03-17 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
I did not have intermitent access.  I could not dial any tollfree number at all.
It had to do with the CallerID I was sending.  It needs to be 10 digits exactly.

quote who=Matt Lawson
 I have been having the same problem with 800 numbers.  NuFone and
 VoicePulse always behave the same (when one can't connect, neither can
 the other).

 I have so far found no explanation for this.  Some other 800 and 877
 numbers I can call.

 Can you elaborate on this at all?

 Thanks!


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RE: [Asterisk-Users] NuFone?

2004-03-17 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
And I thought the 1 was part of a valid ANI.

It would have helped if, when I sent to Nufone that I was using these lines:
exten = _91NXXNXX,1,SetCallerID(Robert Hajime Lanning 14082729747)
exten = _91NXXNXX,2,Dial(IAX2/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/${EXTEN:1})

That I would get the response that I need to remove the 1.
Instead, I get, I cannot reproduce the problem.

So, how good is VoicePulse for service?  How about network uptime?

quote who=Matthew Marlowe
 If you want all of what NuFone doesn't have, then go with VoicePulse.

 The fact that dialing toll-free numbers requires a completely valid and
 full ANI is a well known fact.

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Re: [asterisk] Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voiceplus

2004-03-07 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=John Wang
 Vijay,
 What is the rate of  NuFone.net, not listed on their
 web though.
 I know voicepulse is $7.99 / month .
 --John J.Wang

Nufone.net has no monthly fee.  Think of it as a prepaid calling card.
You put money into an account, then use it by the minute.

US calls are 2.9 cents a minute.  Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a
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RE: [Asterisk-Users] Dialing 800 numbers with VOIP

2004-02-10 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Joel Maslak
 I don't have a Nufone account (Jeremy - if you are reading - I would
 probably have one if there was a price for a starter package listed on
 your site - something for SoHo use, without any deep discounts or
 anything, just something to use to play with the service; I have a
 personal aversion to bothering with companies who don't list their
 prices), so I have no idea if Nufone's 1-800 service works or not.

There are no fees.  Think of it as a calling card.  You put $10 into the
account, then you have $10 of minutes.  Per minute cost depends on where
you are dialing to.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] port number keeps changing

2004-02-09 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Matt Lawson
 We have an asterisk installation that's on a residential-grade DSL and
 its port number (as visible from the outside) keeps changing, every time
 it registers.  fuser indicates that asterisk is only using port 4569 for
 IAX2 (as it should), but when it goes out over the Internet, the port
 number is reported as something in the 1's and it changes every time.

 Obviously, this is a network issue of some type, but can anyone explain
 more precisely why this happens and how to stop it?  We have some other
 installations that stay put on port 4569 like they're supposed to.
  Network issues aren't my area of expertise.

 Thanks.

You obviously have a Broadband Router/NAT device.  This allows multiple
machines to connect to the DSL line, using one IP address.

I would have to say, it is a fact of life, for a network setup like that.
It is a matter of keeping state for the NAT.

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RE: [Asterisk-Users] Dialing 800 numbers with VOIP

2004-02-09 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Tim Petlock
 It didn't occur to me to add FWD to my config to complete such calls -
 but I will when I can figure out how to do it securely without giving
 anyone who dials my FWD number access across my Asterisk box to outbound
 calls through Nufone.

I actually use IAXTel for my 800 number service.  I find it more stable than
FWD.  FWD latency seems to jump all over the place.

I have a log full of REACHABLE/UNREACHABLE messages for FWD.  And that is with
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Caller-ID is being sent wrong. How to fix it?

2004-02-07 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=John Fraizer

 OK.  I upgraded to 0.7.2 but and also set a callerid= entry in sip.conf.
 The behavior is the same.

 Caller-ID is sent as Name of Calling Party number of CALLED party
 instead of Name of Calling Party number of CALLING party like it should
 be.

You are not setting the caller ID properly...

callerid = string portion number portion

If you want no string portion, then:

callerid =  number portion

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Caller-ID is being sent wrong. How to fix it?

2004-02-07 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Robert Hajime Lanning
 quote who=John Fraizer

 OK.  I upgraded to 0.7.2 but and also set a callerid= entry in sip.conf.
 The behavior is the same.

 Caller-ID is sent as Name of Calling Party number of CALLED party
 instead of Name of Calling Party number of CALLING party like it should
 be.

 You are not setting the caller ID properly...

 callerid = string portion number portion

 If you want no string portion, then:

 callerid =  number portion

Also, it is the same syntax for the SetCallerID() application.

The way you had it:

callerid = 200

Sets the string portion to 200 and leaves the number portion null.

The null number portion is what is causing you trouble.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Caller-ID is being sent wrong. How to fix it?

2004-02-07 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=John Fraizer
 Um, yes I am setting the caller ID right.  Asterisk isn't sending the invite
 message properly.

 [100]
 callerid= test name 1234
 type=friend
 username=100
 secret=secret
 host=dynamic
 fromuser=100
 mailbox=100
 context=allaccess
 canreinvite=yes
 dtmfmode=rfc2833
 nat=yes

 The test name part gets sent but, like I said, if extension 100 calls
 extension 228, the phone at 228 sees the caller-ID as test name
 228.

 This happens with Asterisk 0.5 and Asterisk 0.7.2 both.

That is real interesting.  It seems to work just fine for me.  Though, I am
running straigh out of CVS, but older than 0.7.2 release.  My SIP phones
(Grandstream) see CallerID just fine and my co-worker's SIP phones (Cisco 7960)
work also.

Can you send your extensions.conf?  It has to be something in there.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Caller-ID is being sent wrong. How to fix it?

2004-02-07 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=John Fraizer
 If your asterisk server does not do this, please do me the favor of setting
 up two test extensions for me so I can try to figure out what is wrong
 here.  You can lock me in a context where I can only call from one test
 extension to another.  I just need to be able to verify what is going on so
 I can either get it corrected in my config (I don't think I have anything
 wrong) or get it acknowledged as a bug in Asterisk.

I can do this, hold on.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Caller-ID is being sent wrong. How to fix it?

2004-02-07 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=John Fraizer
 OK.  I don't know what the deal is.  Works fine on your server.  Doesn't on
 mine.

 That is so strange.

my version string is: CVS-01/31/04-04:24:34

Also, I noticed that your sip.conf entries are a bit different than mine.

I am curious if canreinvite=no would change your situation.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: DISA

2004-02-06 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
What is your zapata.conf?
Have you tried imediate = yes?

quote who=Ed Devine
 John and sundry others:

 First thanks for your help.

 You have succiently summed up the problem. I do not get dialtone fast
 enough.

 The following is a test dialplan that I set up this morning after recieveing
 the many kind e-mails, It's very basic, but it does allow me to process a
 call to my phone extension, albeit I still don't get dialtone immediately
 when I select a line or dial into the asterisk system. (see embedded notes
 for details).

 [general]
 static = yes
 writeprotect = no
 ;
 [main2]
 exten = 9,1,dial(zap/g2)
 exten = _5012
 ignorepat = 9
 ;
 [main1]
 exten = s,1,DISA(2285750,main2)
 exten = s,2,Hangup( )
 ;
 ;Notes on testing:
 ;Circuit is a full T1 provided by my in house Nortel
 ;SL1 to port 3 of my Digium T410p. It's identified
 ;in zaptel.conf as span =3,0,0,d4,ami., and configured
 ;in zapata.conf as group=2, signalling=em_w,
 ;channel = 49-72.
 ;
 ;For purposes of testing only, I have my Nortel Norstar
 ;system with a T1 cartridge attached to port 4 of the
 ;Digium T410p. It's identified in zaptel.conf as
 ;span=4,0,0,esf,b8zs and configured in zapata.conf as
 ;group=3, signalling=em_w, channel = 73-96.
 ;
 ;ztcfg -vv indicates the configuration is correct, and
 ;zttool indicates that there are no errors
 ;
 ;When I select line 1 on the Norstar (where I would
 ;normally expect to  to get dialtone, in effect simply
 ; going off hook) . I do not get dialtone.
 ;
 ;CLI indicates Starting simple switch on 'Zap-73-1' .
 ;The same hold true if I dial in on this T1.
 ;
 ;after 5 seconds (the timeout), I finally recieve dialtone.
 ;
 ;At this point I dial 2285750# and I get dialtone again
 ;
 ; CLI indicates WARNING [1225991448]:
 ;app_disa_c:290 : disa_exec: DISA on Zap/73-1
 ;password is good.
 ;
 ;The dialplan then branches to [main2]
 ;
 [main2]
 exten = 9,1,dial(zap/g2)
 exten = _5012,1,dial(zap/g2)
 ignorepat = 9
 ;
 ;Since both the Norstar and the SL1 are configured with
 ;dial 9 access (and yes, I've tried using straight access
 ;with the same results). I dial 995012, and the call
 ;processes, ringing my extension 5012 on the SL1.
 ;
 ;CLI indicates
 ;'Executing dial(Zap/73-1 , Zap/g2) in new stack'.
 ;Called g2
 ;'Zap/49-1 answered Zap/73-1'
 ;'attempting native bridge of Zap/73-1 and Zap/49-1'
 ;
 ;I answer the call on my extension '5012' and talk as long
 ;as I care and then simply hangup.
 ;
 ;CLI indicates 'Hungup 'Zap/49-1'
 ;'spawn extension (main2,9,1) exited non-zero on
 ;Zap/73-1'
 ;Hungup 'Zap/73-1'
 ;
 [default]
 exten = s,1,answer
 exten = s,2,disa(no-password, main2)
 exten = s,3,Hangup
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voiceglo questions

2004-02-05 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Michael Swan
 1. Can someone confirm whether Voiceglo needs to use SIP or
 can it handle IAX? This link seems to indicate it uses SIP:
 http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg20561.html
 although other messages on the mailing list indicate that
 Voiceglo is using Asterisk in its internal architecture.

The MTAs they sell use SIP.  Their softphone uses IAX1.

 2. Voiceglo's support keeps telling us we need to purchase an
 MTA (Multimedia Terminal Adapter), essentially an analog to digital
 box, described here: http://www.voiceglo.com/pages/Products_equipment.html
 Since we're using SIP phones and Asterisk, we have no need for this,
 right?

They support connecting via equipment/software purchased through them.
You are on your own, when connecting your own Asterisk implementation to
their network.

 3. Any words of warning or praise from clients of Voiceglo?

They (atleast under SIP) use DTMF inband detection for DTMF after initial
call setup.  They also use g729.  This means that while someone is talking
you will hear a DTMF every once in a while.  Also, when trying to get through
DTMF menus is difficult.  You get missed or double digits.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: DISA

2004-02-05 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Steve Creel
[main1]
;
; Take any number, and give it to the DISA.  The DISA
;  just then takes anything typed in within the (unchangeable)
;  timer values, and hands it off to main2 to be post-processed. ; I
include the standard i,h,t values for pedantic reasons.
;
exten = _X.,1,DISA(no-password,main2)
exten = _X.,2,Hangup
;
exten = h,1,Hangup
exten = i,1,Congestion
exten = i,2,Hangup
exten = t,1,Congestion
exten = t,2,Hangup


 Not to point out the obvious, but isn't the delay he's seeing caused by the
 _X. and the digittimeout?  Couldn't this be resolved by using a more
 specific match on the DISA instead of _X. ?

I think that would be right.

I would have used:
exten = s,1,DISA(no-password,main2)
exten = s,2,Hangup

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Junk calls from FWD numbers

2004-01-29 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Chris Albertson
 Question:  Does everyone with an FWD number get these junk
 calls or am I the only lucky one?

I did for a while.  I did not have any voicemail, but my caller id logs showed
the name and number.

Either my registrations have stopped working (haven't checked in a while) or
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] ADSI phone vs. IP phone

2004-01-19 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Andrew Thompson
 It was my impression that these phones had 10MB ehternet connections and not
 100MB. Not that most of us would notice the difference in browsing the net,
 it does defeat the purpose of having 100MB switches. (I believe I also saw
 people on this list talking about strange things happening when they wired
 the phones/pcs up this way.)

Depends on the phone.
These have full blown 100Mb switches in them:
http://www.zultys.com/ZIP4x4.htm

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] New sounds also now in CVS

2004-01-19 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Tilghman Lesher
 Although the OS may cache that information, the userland process
 can take quite some time to process a very full directory.  I've had
 this happen quite a few times with Linux ext2 filesystems, where the
 fileglob * exceeded bash's limit of 32,768 characters.  /bin/ls on
 those directories took several minutes before the first results were
 given.

 I'll additionally comment that the directories I was working with were
 not normally that full, but was a side effect of a process dumping
 lots of little files into a directory when something went wrong.

 On a slight tangent, NT4 had a practical limit of about 300 directory
 entries before attempting to process the directory became unbearably
 slow.

 -Tilghman

A couple of things, searching a directory for a specific name tends to be
a linear search through the directory (unless the filesystem uses binary
trees, like ReiserFS...), ls is a bad example of a command, it is more of
a worse case example.

ls will read the entire directory, sort it, then do a stat() on every file
listed.  All of this is done before it formats the output.  So, you have to
wait until it is all done, before you see the first character output.

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RE: [Asterisk-Users] More words for Allison

2004-01-12 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Dave Cotton
 On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 16:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  -Original Message-
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
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  Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 8:39 PM
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] More words for Allison
 
 [...]
  snip
   knots per hour
 
  I'm a land-lubber, but I think knots is a speed unit (like
  Miles Per Hour), so I think you want knots here, not knots
  per hour, if you are talking wind speed.
 
 [...]

 Then stick to being a land lubber.  Because you're wrong.

 A knot is a unit of linear measurement.

 Perhaps you're both wrong or right :)

 http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/k/k0092800.html

Well at the bottom of that very page is:

Usage Note:  In nautical usage knot is a unit of speed, not of distance,
and has a built-in meaning of per hour. Therefore, a ship would strictly
be said to travel at ten knots (not ten knots per hour)

So, a knot is not a unit of linear measurement.  A Nautical Mile is linear.
A knot, is speed.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Why * try to codec translate when it can do without during codec negotiation.

2004-01-09 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=SamW
 case 1
 --
 [sip-a]
 allow=g729
 disallow=all
 allow=alaw

Try:
[sip-a]
disallow=all
allow=g729
allow=alaw

The disallow=all clears your previous setting of allow=g729

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RE: [Asterisk-Users] This newbie gives up for now - sadly

2004-01-06 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
John,
   Jared is right.  I have a co-worker who has coughed up the money for the
Cisco 7960 SIP phones.  These have a soft button for Supervised Transfer.
And, it works.

   I only have the Grandstream BT101 phones, and their Transfer button only
implements Blind Transfer.

   So, to get it to work, you will need to upgrade to non-budget phones.  Not
ideal, but Asterisk does support the feature, just Grandstream does not.

quote who=Jared Smith
 On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 06:20, John Coll wrote:
 Robert Hajime Lanning:

 He is using SIP phones.  Supervised Transfers do not really work with SIP.
 He wants, on a SIP phone (I think he had Grandstream phones), to:
  o hit transfer
  o dial new extension
  o talk to new extension * this part does not work *
  o hit transfer to complete the transfer or some cancel button to abort

 Yes that is exactly what I want - thanks for clarifying.


 It sounds to me like this is a problem with the Grandstream phones in
 particular, and not Asterisk.  Supervised transfers work *GREAT* with
 the Cisco 7960 phones... I use them almost every day.

 Jared Smith


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Re: [Asterisk-Users] 911 and lawsuits

2004-01-06 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Jim Flagg
 Most business would have lots of cell phones around but in many metal building
 they do not work.  They also don't provide the address information that a
 land line phone provides.

My company gets over the issue of the incorrect address information for the
true location of the caller, by requiring that people inside the building dial
a special extension (posted on every phone).  This rings an emergency phone(s)
at the central security office.  We currently use a couple of Nortel PBXs.

As for the PBX not working at all during the time of emergency, I don't know
what we actualy do. (I am not telecom at my company, I manage firewalls.)

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Pls confirm

2004-01-06 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Jess Magnaye
 Can someone on the list confirm if Asterisk can do g723 or g729? when
 connecting to provider? or it is only supporting g711?

If you purchase the non-royalty free g729 codec, you can use g729.  g723 is
even more expensive, I believe.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] This newbie gives up for now - sadly

2004-01-05 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
He is using SIP phones.  Supervised Transfers do not really work with SIP.

He wants, on a SIP phone (I think he had Grandstream phones), to:
 o hit transfer
 o dial new extension
 o talk to new extension * this part does not work *
 o hit transfer to complete the transfer or some cancel button to abort

Analog works just fine, with flash.

quote who=Tilghman Lesher
 On Monday 05 January 2004 13:44, John Coll wrote:
 This newbie has been trying out Asterisk. It has been both a)
 surprisingly painful and b) impressive in terms of helpful support
 from other users.

 Having got two phones to communicate and then got voicemail MWI
 going (neither painlessly) I decided the next step was to implement
 call transfer as per nearly all commercial PBX systems i.e.

  hold call
  consult another extension
  either exit and let the two speak
  or get back the original caller

 - an utterly fundamental office procedure on a PBX.

 I don't know why you'd need to implement that, as it's as simple as
 turning on two options in zapata.conf.  Actually, I think both of
 those options are on by default in the sample configuration files.

 And I've spent the requisite few hours on Google and all the docs I
 have printed out. Eventually I found the thread transfer with
 three-way calling (circa Mon, 15 Dec 2003 20:45:08 -0600)  and it
 seems that I can't do that basic operation in Asterisk.

 Why not?  Are you not able to send a flash hook?

 -Tilghman

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RE: [Asterisk-Users] DID trunks -- equipment requirement

2003-12-28 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Josh Rollyson
 I'd look into ISDN, both PRI and BRI. If the costs are not too
 prohibitive, this would be the most flexable option. ISDN uses out of
 band signaling and has a number of features which complement a DID
 enviroment, such as DNIS (dialed number information service), where the
 number dialed is passed along with an incoming call. If your enviroment
 never uses all its outside lines at the same time, this can be cost
 effective, because you can have direct dial numbers for all the phones
 without a one to one correspondance of outside lines to extensions. PRI
 is usually too expensive, but sometimes BRI is affordable, however you
 should check on pricing for both to see if they may be cost effective.

I wish SBC would offer DID via BRI.  DID is only available via PRI or
individule analog trunks.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Grandstream Quality Survey.... :P

2003-12-24 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
So, you can get a really good analog phone for $65, then you mention
and use an ata...   what does this ATA cost?

$65 for the complete set is what I pay for.  At that price, I expect an
issue here and there.  It is still getting the bugs worked out.

I don't have the money to buy $300 Cisco phones.

quote who=Miguel Cavazos
 They are $65 yes, but you can get the best analog phones on the market
 for that price and use an ata. If GS could give the information for
 people on asterisk to develop iax this $65 phone could be even better
 than most of the phones in the market more features less buggy and
 cheaper than all the other sip phones out there

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[Asterisk-Users] turning off IAX registration attempts

2003-12-23 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
I have, in iax.conf the register statement:
register = username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

This causes registration attempts to iaxtel.com for both IAX and IAX2.

Every once in a while there is a packet for port 4569 keeping the IAX2
registration alive.  This is fine.

But, I have a barrage of registration attempts to iaxtel on port 5036 for
IAX.  Every UDP packet is answered with an ICMP packet claiming
port unreachable.

I know that iaxtel has turned off IAX,  So, how do I turn off the registration
attempts for IAX, for that particular connection?  (and keep IAX2)

Just seems like alot of wasted bandwidth, contiously knocking on a locked door.
Ok, not alot of bandwidth, but, completely useless.

Has anyone done a tcpdump at iaxtel to see how many IAX registration attempts
hit them, and how fast?

Here is my tcpdump: there are ICMP return packets for each of these UDP packets

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/asterisk# tcpdump -n ip host 69.73.19.178 and udp port 5036
tcpdump: listening on eth0
17:10:01.740865 198.144.196.118.5036  69.73.19.178.5036: udp 12 (DF) [tos 0x10]
17:10:01.740912 198.144.196.118.5036  69.73.19.178.5036: udp 12 (DF) [tos 0x10]
17:10:01.760869 198.144.196.118.5036  69.73.19.178.5036: udp 12 (DF) [tos 0x10]
17:10:01.760909 198.144.196.118.5036  69.73.19.178.5036: udp 42 (DF) [tos 0x10]
17:10:09.740652 198.144.196.118.5036  69.73.19.178.5036: udp 12 (DF) [tos 0x10]
17:10:11.201240 198.144.196.118.5036  69.73.19.178.5036: udp 12 (DF) [tos 0x10]
17:10:11.750502 198.144.196.118.5036  69.73.19.178.5036: udp 12 (DF) [tos 0x10]
17:10:11.750535 198.144.196.118.5036  69.73.19.178.5036: udp 12 (DF) [tos 0x10]
17:10:11.750546 198.144.196.118.5036  69.73.19.178.5036: udp 12 (DF) [tos 0x10]
17:10:11.770504 198.144.196.118.5036  69.73.19.178.5036: udp 12 (DF) [tos 0x10]
17:10:12.220512 198.144.196.118.5036  69.73.19.178.5036: udp 12 (DF) [tos 0x10]
17:10:25.240316 198.144.196.118.5036  69.73.19.178.5036: udp 12 (DF) [tos 0x10]
17:10:26.250264 198.144.196.118.5036  69.73.19.178.5036: udp 12 (DF) [tos 0x10]
17:10:29.740007 198.144.196.118.5036  69.73.19.178.5036: udp 42 (DF) [tos 0x10]
17:10:31.759849 198.144.196.118.5036  69.73.19.178.5036: udp 42 (DF) [tos 0x10]
17:10:39.279658 198.144.196.118.5036  69.73.19.178.5036: udp 12 (DF) [tos 0x10]
17:10:39.749612 198.144.196.118.5036  69.73.19.178.5036: udp 12 (DF) [tos 0x10]
17:10:40.299550 198.144.196.118.5036  69.73.19.178.5036: udp 12 (DF) [tos 0x10]
17:10:41.759498 198.144.196.118.5036  69.73.19.178.5036: udp 12 (DF) [tos 0x10]
17:10:41.759546 198.144.196.118.5036  69.73.19.178.5036: udp 42 (DF) [tos 0x10]

20 packets received by filter
0 packets dropped by kernel


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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Carrier Access Channel Bank Setup -- No hangup

2003-12-04 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
Changes are below.  Use KewlStart for the FXO channels.  (Loopstart +
remote disconnect suppervision)  Define all T1 channels.  FXS channels
can be loopstart without any issues.

quote who=Jonathan Moore
 I just purchased a T100p from digium and a Carrier Access Access Bank 1
 channel bank (12fxs/12fxo). I have the setup partially working thanks
 to some help from IRC. However I still have the following issues I
 can't seem to resolve

 1. When calling into the system from the PSTN call hangup is not
 detected. * leaves line in use until it is shutdown.

 2. When calling an analog phone connected to channel bank the phone
 doesn't ring. If you are in call and some else calls the extension
 you get the call waiting tones and a flash works to flip to the new
 line.

 zaptel.conf
 span=1,1,0,esf,b8zs
 fxsls=13-24
 fxols=1-12

use fxsks=13-24

 loadzone = us
 defaultzone=us

 zapata.conf
 [channels]

 context = local
 language = en
 callwaiting = yes
 threewaycalling = yes
 transfer = yes
 cancelforward = yes
 callreturn = no
 usecallerid = yes
 hidecallerid = no
 echocancel = yes
 echocancelwhenbridged = yes
 ;immediate = no
 txgain=1.0
 rxgain=1.0
 callprogress=no
 busydetect=no

 group = 2

 ;use with FXO PCI card
 signalling = fxo_ls
 ;channel = 13-24
 channel = 1

channel = 1-12


 context = local

 group = 1
 ;use with FXS USB card
 signalling = fxs_ls

signalling = fxs_ks

 ;callerid = John Doe (710) 555-6200
 channel = 13

channel = 13-24

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Carrier Access Channel Bank Setup -- No hangup

2003-12-04 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Jonathan Moore
 Thanks for the help. Can you explain the need to define all the channels
 in zapata.conf? I am not connecting devices to all the ports on the CB
 yet, so if I place the definitions into my groups 1 and 2 then things
 seem to be a bit strange when defining my outbound pstn calling.

As for defining all channels, I do it, more for completeness.  I don't know
if is would really change anything.

As for groups, I do it like this:
group = 1
channel = 1
group = 32
channel = 2-12
group = 2
channel = 13
group = 32
channel = 14-24

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] 4 Port FXO cards

2003-11-20 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Mark Spencer
 X100P can detect drop in battery, not polarity reversal, although I
 believe the FXO module will be able to (won't be able to say with
 certainty of course until i have the production units running)

 Mark

Speaking of wink (battery reversal), can the FXS modules wink?  To connect
DID analog trunk lines?

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Struggling with grandstream sip to asterisk

2003-11-17 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Walker Haddock

 ; SIP Configuration for Asterisk
 ;
 [general]
 port = 5060 ; Port to bind to
 bindaddr = 0.0.0.0  ; Address to bind to
 context = default   ; Default for incoming calls
 ;
 [205] ; Conference 2, Grandstream Phone
 callerid=Converence 2 205
 username=205
 context=intern
 qualify=yes
 incominglimit=1
 type=friend
 insecure=yes
 host=192.168.1.70
 permit=192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0

 ^
wrong subnet.


 dtmfmode=info
 canreinvite=no
 reinvite=no
 callgroup=1
 pickupgroup=1
 disallow=all
 allow=alaw
 allow=ulaw

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Multi phone presentation

2003-11-10 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=costas

2) Put on hold and pick up on a different phone set.

The right thing for this is call parking but it doesn't work to well
with IP Phones..

 Could you clarify what doesn't work well? Is there a SIP deficiency?

The SIP phone needs to be able to do supervised transfers.  Some phone, like
the Grandstream can only do blind transfers (using the transfer button.)
The only way around this is to use the # transfer capability of *.  (Using
the t option in the Dial application.)

Some SIP phones (like the Cisco 7960) can do both blind and supervised
transfers.

The supervised transfer is needed so you can hear what call parking slot
is used for your call.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Multi phone presentation

2003-11-09 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=costas
 Does anyone have sample * configuration on how I can get an incoming call
 to ring all SIP phones (small setup, say 4 phones) at the same time.

 1) I would like to pickup up any phone and the ringing should stop (of
 course)

exten = s,1,Dial(SIP/set1SIP/set2SIP/set3SIP/set4,t)

 2) Put on hold and pick up on a different phone set.

Since each set is a completely seperate extension (Not sharing the
same line), you must park the call, then pick up the parked call from
the other extension.  Or you can blind transfer the call to the other
extension, but that my confuse callers, as they will get ringing again
as the transfer rings the other extension.

 Do I need special phone features to achieve this? E.g. would the
 Grandstream 100 do it?

To use the grandstream, you need the # for transfer feature turned on
in the dial statement.  Then you can use the # key to transfer the call
to park and be able to hear the number of the parking slot the call is
assigned to.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] X100P - module does not gat loaded

2003-11-05 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Sathya Weerasooriya
 I installed a x100P card today. Once it is configured *  no longer
 starting.
[snip]
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] asterisk]# ztcfg -vv

 Zaptel Configuration
 ==


 Channel map:


 0 channels configured.

 

Have you configured /etc/zaptel.conf?

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] High Availability and Mass Deployment for Asterisk

2003-11-03 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=WipeOut
 You are right in what you are saying.. I was thinking back to the
 original message that started this thread that talked about load
 balancing VoIP clients accross multiple servers.. Thats where my
 comments came from.. :)

My goof, for not reading the start of the thread.

That is even tougher still.

Also, using a shared resource (VoIP access) to access a none shared
resource (PSTN access), will be very hard.  You would almost need to put
the PSTN access on a third node, that is not clustered.

Then when a call is made (any call, to PSTN or otherwise) would be locked
to a node.  Think of the full duration of a call as a transaction.

This would have to be buried deap in Asterisk and the kernel.  The kernel
to do the network side of load balancing.  And, Asterisk to keep state.
Also, Asterisk would need to know which node is primary for which session.
Asterisk will need to not do anything with a VoIP session that it is not
the primary node for, unless it is taking over that session on behalf of a
non-operational node.

For this complexity, you are now really asking for the phones to fail.

I think the best and most stable way is to partition your dialplan and
assign X VoIP clients per Asterisk server.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Extensions Problem

2003-10-26 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Phillip Jackson
 So, I assume we need to implement 9, and the number.  However, when I
 do this, the 9 gets passed on to our SIP provider, which tries to dial
 9NXX, and all goes to hell.

 Question - is there a way to allow 9 in the dialing plan, without having
 it be passed to the sip provider.

exten = _9NXX,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN:[EMAIL PROTECTED])

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(Ethernet issues) RE: [Asterisk-Users] Survey: Grandstream improvements.........

2003-10-21 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Michael T Farnworth
 On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, rnc Info Lists wrote:

 Michael,
 How would you be able to connect all phones in a room to one socket?
 The
 Ethernet specificiation has a limit to the number of hubs/switches that
 can be inline.  (or at least it used to).  The only way I can see to
 connect all phones to one socket would be to daisy chain them.  This
 would
 not be a good solution since:
 - all phones would use the same 10mbps segment, chances for collisions
   would be high
 - rules of Ethernet would be violated so even if it did work it may stop
   at any point with some other normally minor change.

 I defer to your knowledge in this area, but I would be interested to know
 what the limit is in terms of the number of devices that can be put
 inline.

 On the subject of collisions it seems to me that individual phone
 bandwidth use is relatively limited when compared to the 10Mbit/s
 available, so would the problem really be that substantial?

 Personally I currently have:

 Hub - Phone - Phone - Laptop

 No visible problems here, so certainly 3 phones in a line would seem to
 work.  I suppose it all comes down to how many phones you put in a line.

 Michael

Too many switches/hubs will cause late collisions.  Late collisions are
ethernet collisions that happen after the transmitting station has finished
transmitting.

If it is a store and forward switch, then the switch can retransmit on
collision, otherwise the packet is completely lost.

This is the same reason why an ethernet cable cannot be over 300 feet.
The first bit of the ethernet frame must get to the farthest node in
an ethernet segment before the last bit is transmitted by the originating
station.  This length is based on speed one bit takes to span the distance
and the minimum ethernet frame size (64 bytes).

Currently the limit is 5 non-store and forward switches/hubs.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] MOH different question

2003-10-20 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Kevin
 Is there anyway for a sip station to play MoH out of the speaker?
 I know I can do it by calling the station and putting it on hold.

 For example:
 On a samsung pbx with MoH, if you goto one of the workstaions and press
 a button
 The moh plays out of the speaker.

 Is there any way to do this with asterisk?

Add an extension for MoH...

exten = 8800,1,Answer
exten = 8800,2,MusicOnHold(default)

Then dial that extension to get music.
If it is a two line phone, you can receive calls via the other line
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Some questions of heavy * deployment and stability.

2003-10-19 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Anton Tinchev
 How stable are these channel drivers?

I haven't run into any real stability issues, then again I just have
4 grandstreams sitting on a desk. :)
Oh, and a CAC AB1 channel bank connected to a Digium T100P.

 Is there any commercial support for faster bugcleaning, fixing ...
 (anything will be in the GPL field)?

http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=software_support
Look at the second support option...

 Is there any way for more stability of SIP channel drivers?
 Will be some support (including bugfixes/stability issues) if we buy
 a lot of digium cards (let say 20+ TE410 for 6 months).

 I'm asking this, becouse i have on my horizons deployment of telephone
 system for a small city (2000-5000 users for 2 years) shortly after New
 Year.

That sounds really cool.  I am sure the whole list would like to hear
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Using channel banks

2003-10-17 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Lal, Deepak (Contractor)
 Hello Everyone,

 What kind of hardware setup would I need to do if I want a T1 connection
 to PSTN
 and have 48 users in office with analog phones. Will something work if I
 have a
 T410P card in asterisk and have one T1 going to PSTN and other two to a
 channel
 bank. I would then connect the 48 phones (FXS) to the channel bank!
 Thanks.

That is exactly how you would do it.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Supervised transfers

2003-10-16 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=Devon Henderson
 I've seen a lot of traffic on the list recently about which phones can do
 supervised transfers and which cannot, and I have to admit that I'm a bit
 puzzled.  Our existing PBX, which is software based, handles the transfer
 functions for our call center -- the agents never touch their phone, and
 instead use software.  We can plug any old phone into it, and it'll work
 just the same.

For analog sets, asterisk does 100% of the work.  Hence, any old phone
will work.

The issues that have been presented are all issues with VoIP phones.
SIP in particular.  These phones do part of the work themselves, so
features must be supported, both in asterisk and on the phone itself.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Problems with AGI scripts in Perl and Java

2003-10-11 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
Try putting at the top of the Perl script:

$| = 1;
select((select(STDERR),$| = 1)[0]);

This removes buffering.

quote who=Serge Mankovski
 Hi
 what can be wrong with * that console does not show any stderr text
 printed
 from agi script?
 I am starting with asterisk -rc
 VERBOSE command does show text on console but printing of STDERR does not

 I tried it from Perl and from Java and in both cases almost the same
 result,
 except in Java more things do not work.

 In Java for, for example, SAY DIGITS 123 78# would attempt to say one,
 but
 would not finish and there is not attempt even to say two. In Perl,
 however ,SAY DIGITS work correctly

 Thanks
 Serge

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Grandstream wallmount??

2003-10-10 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
hehe...

I've been thinking of some manual modifications.

quote who=Dave Weis

 Am I the only one that has noticed there is no way to wallmount a
 Grandstream phone? There are screw notches on the back, but no hook to
 hold the handset in.

 --
 Dave Weis I believe there are more instances of the
 abridgment
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] ChanIsAvail app setting ${AVAILCHAN} to anunusable value.

2003-10-07 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=John Todd
On Sunday 05 October 2003 16:41, Robert Hajime Lanning wrote:
  I sent this earlier under Editting variable contents but no-one
  has responded.  So, the subject is now more to the problem, instead
  of the solution I was trying to implement.

  ChanIsAvail returns the channel ID plus -session.

  How can I edit ${AVAILCHAN} to remove this session ID, so I can use
  its contents in a subsequent Dial statement?

Oh, it's quite simple.  You just write your own application to remove
the suffix.  Or you wait for someone else to write it.

Untested code.  UAYOR.

-Tilghman

 I don't recall if -session is a fixe number of digits.  If so, you
 can use the string manipulation features within Asterisk to cut it
 off.  I don't have the manual reference right here with me, but note
 that you can put negative numbers for ${EXTEN:-1:-3} and the like,
 which will chop things up based on fixed positions within the string.

 JT

Not fixed length.  Well it maybe fixed per technology. (Zap vs. SIP...)

I ended up just writing an AGI script.
extensions.conf:
; Now we dial
exten = 8901,6,AGI(strip-sess,DIALCHANS)
exten = 8901,7,Macro(stdexten,8901,${DIALCHANS})

-
#! /usr/bin/perl

$|=1;

$variable = shift;

while ($line = STDIN,$line =~ /[^ \n\r]/) { }

print STDOUT GET VARIABLE $variable\n;
$response = STDIN;
$response =~ /^\d+ +result=(\d+) +\((.*)\)\s*$/;
$response = $1;
$data = $2;

if ($response == 1) {
   $data = join(,map {$_ =~ s/\-\w+$//;$_;} split(//,$data));
   print STDOUT SET VARIABLE $variable \$data\\n;
   $response = STDIN;
}

exit(0);
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] callerid name modification (or adding)

2003-10-06 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=Steven Critchfield
 On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 15:45, john lawler wrote:
 Is there any way to take an incoming callerid string and remove the
given name part of it and replace it w/ something arbitrary, or add
to a blank name string (possibly by looking up the number in a
database)?

 Be glad I'm ridding my angst in other ways than lazy users these days.

 show application setCidName

  -= Info about application 'SetCIDName' =-

 [Synopsis]:
   Set CallerID Name

 [Description]:
   SetCIDName(cname[|a]): Set Caller*ID Name on a call to a new
 value, while preserving the original Caller*ID number.  This is
 useful for providing additional information to the called
 party. Sets ANI as well if a flag is used.  Always returns 0

*CLI show application LookupCIDName
  -= Info about application 'LookupCIDName' =-

[Synopsis]:
  Look up CallerID Name from local database

[Description]:
  LookupCIDName: Looks up the Caller*ID number on the active
channel in the Asterisk database (family 'cidname') and sets the
Caller*ID name.  Does nothing if no Caller*ID was received on the
channel.  This is useful if you do not subscribe to Caller*ID
name delivery, or if you want to change the names on some incoming calls. 
Always returns 0.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] How to get register with Nufone??

2003-10-05 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
Talk to Nufone sales, to get an account setup with them.
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quote who=Alvaro Parres
 Hi all...
 How can i register wit nufone i was serching at its pages... and
 I never find how to get register...


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[Asterisk-Users] ChanIsAvail app setting ${AVAILCHAN} to an unusable value.

2003-10-05 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
I sent this earlier under Editting variable contents but no-one
has responded.  So, the subject is now more to the problem, instead of
the solution I was trying to implement.

ChanIsAvail returns the channel ID plus -session.

How can I edit ${AVAILCHAN} to remove this session ID, so I can use its
contents in a subsequent Dial statement?

Dialing on Zap just gives a warning about unknown option -, but
dialing a SIP channel completely errors out.

-- extensions.conf snippet-
;
; Main Home number (8901)
;
; Bedroom1
exten = 8901,1,Macro(twoline,Zap/1,Zap/2)
; Bedroom2
exten = 8901,2,Macro(twoline,Zap/3,Zap/4)
; Bedroom3
exten = 8901,3,Macro(twoline,Zap/5,Zap/6)
; Kitchen
exten = 8901,4,Macro(twoline,Zap/7,Zap/8)
; Familyroom
;exten = 8901,5,Macro(twoline,Zap/13,Zap/14)
exten = 8901,5,Macro(twoline,sip/set1,sip/set2)
; Now we dial
exten = 8901,6,Macro(stdexten,8901,${DIALCHANS})

[macro-twoline]
exten = s,1,SetVar(MACRO_OFFSET=0)
exten = s,2,ChanIsAvail(${ARG1}${ARG2})
exten = s,3,GotoIf($[${DIALCHANS} = ]?s,6:s,4)
exten = s,4,SetVar(DIALCHANS=${DIALCHANS}${AVAILCHAN})
exten = s,5,Goto(s,7)
exten = s,6,SetVar(DIALCHANS=${AVAILCHAN})
exten = s,7,Wait(0)

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[Asterisk-Users] Editting variable contents

2003-10-03 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
ChanIsAvail returns the channel ID plus -session.

How can I edit ${AVAILCHAN} to remove this session ID, so I can use its
contents in a subsequent Dial statement?

Dialing on Zap just gives a warning, but dialing a SIP channel
completely errors out.

-- extensions.conf snippet-
;
; Main Home number (8901)
;
; Bedroom1
exten = 8901,1,Macro(twoline,Zap/1,Zap/2)
; Bedroom2
exten = 8901,2,Macro(twoline,Zap/3,Zap/4)
; Bedroom3
exten = 8901,3,Macro(twoline,Zap/5,Zap/6)
; Kitchen
exten = 8901,4,Macro(twoline,Zap/7,Zap/8)
; Familyroom
;exten = 8901,5,Macro(twoline,Zap/13,Zap/14)
exten = 8901,5,Macro(twoline,sip/set1,sip/set2)
; Now we dial
exten = 8901,6,Macro(stdexten,8901,${DIALCHANS})

[macro-twoline]
exten = s,1,SetVar(MACRO_OFFSET=0)
exten = s,2,ChanIsAvail(${ARG1}${ARG2})
exten = s,3,GotoIf($[${DIALCHANS} = ]?s,6:s,4)
exten = s,4,SetVar(DIALCHANS=${DIALCHANS}${AVAILCHAN})
exten = s,5,Goto(s,7)
exten = s,6,SetVar(DIALCHANS=${AVAILCHAN})
exten = s,7,Wait(0)

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[Asterisk-Users] Digium hardware distributors near Budapest, Hungary

2003-09-29 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
I have a client near Budapest that is looking to get two X100P cards.
They are looking for someone close by that can ship to them in 1 to 2
days.  (as in, they would receive the card within 2 days of shipping.)

I will be remotely setting up a small Asterisk server there.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] VIA vs Intel

2003-09-25 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Robert Hajime Lanning wrote:
 Next is to try ALSA to get local console sound support.  Yes, OSS_Lite
 does fail.  AC97 driver does not recognize the chip ID.

 chan_alsa is buggy... i have had zero luck with it on *

 -Dan

Then, I will have to try the OSS emulation that ALSA has.  Someone else
on the list has mentioned that this works good.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] VIA vs Intel

2003-09-24 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning

I am running Asterisk on one of these (T100P taking the single
PCI slot.) (EPIA M1 Mini-ITX Motherboard)

http://www.hushtechnologies.com/default.asp?pageID=2Lang=ENG

I bought it via http://mini-itx.com/

quote who=Steven Critchfield
 On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 12:41, Mike Hjorleifsson wrote:
 Has anyone successfully run asterisk with a VIA processor ?
 I have tried unsucessfully, do I have to run make with any specific
switches
 ?

 Yes, look for comments about a 586 flag since the via chips aren't fully
PII or above compatible.
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] VIA vs Intel

2003-09-24 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
quote who=WipeOut .

 I am running Asterisk on one of these (T100P taking the single
 PCI slot.) (EPIA M1 Mini-ITX Motherboard)

 http://www.hushtechnologies.com/default.asp?pageID=2Lang=ENG

 I bought it via http://mini-itx.com/


 How many concurrent calls have you run on this MB??

 What codecs are you using for your phones? (assuming IP phones)

 Later..
 --

Don't know yet.
I just got my GrandStream phones yesterday, quantity four.  Got one
configured and dialed into VoiceMail2() just fine.  (ULaw)

I have it hooked up to a channelbank, but still need to get an RJ21
cable to connect to my breakout box. (CAC AB1)

I have this setup sitting on my desk at work.  I will need to bring
it home to connect to analog trunk lines.

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Re: [Asterisk-Users] Incoming phone line rollover / hunt?

2003-09-21 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
I am planning on getting 4 analog trunk lines from my carrier (SBC).
~US$14/month/each
And a block of 20 DID numbers for these trunk lines.
(~US$15/month/block of 20)  (a block of 20 is the smallest)

Inbound calls come in, and the lines (on the * side) are set to the
same context.  (which contain the DID extensions)

If you are not going to use DID, the lines still come into the same
context, just you do not handle the DID extensions.  You would just
answer and provide a menu of some sort.

The rollover feature is really just busy call forwarding.

You can buy 4 residential lines.  (do not get call waiting)
Setup busy call forwarding:
1 - 2
2 - 3
3 - 4

Then advertise the number for line 1.

Outbound calls would be handled by the group feature of Zapata.
You put the 4 lines in the same group (in zapata.conf) and the
extension.conf would have Dial(Zap/ggroupnumber/${EXTEN})

quote who=John Brown
 how does a PBX control the call setup of inbound calls from
 the PSTN??

 unless you are doing something like ATM an your switch is going to
 handle processing a call setup request, I don't see how * can
 deal with hunting from a PSTN side.

 Certainly from the station or SIP or IAX or H323 side it can
 deal with it, but I'd be surprised if from the PSTN side.


 On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 11:02:29PM -0400, Jeremy McNamara wrote:
 Check the zapata.conf.sample for the keyword 'group'



 Jeremy McNamara


 Leif Madsen wrote:

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  I have a simple question about incoming phone line rollovers.  How are
  these usually done?  Is this done at the phone company usually, or is
  this something that Asterisk or channel bank is capable of?  I just
 need
  someone to give me a brief explanation how it usually works, and if
  someone was implementing an Asterisk system, how they would go about
  providing a call rollover (single advertised phone number, but allow
  multiple incoming calls)
 
  Thanks in advance,
  Leif Madsen.
 
 
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] conference problem without zapata interface

2003-07-17 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
You need to load the ztdummy kernel driver.  It will provide the pseudo
timing needed to sync the conference channel.

It is a driver that creates a dummy Zaptel hardware interface.

quote who=Andrzej Radke
 Hello !

 In file app_meetme.c we can read
 A ZAPTEL INTERFACE MUST BE\n
 INSTALLED FOR CONFERENCING FUNCTIONALITY.\n

 I receive message, when I try conference
 WARNING[28686]: File app_meetme.c, Line 151 (build_conf): Unable to open
 pseudo channel
 -- Playing 'conf-invalid'


 Does it means that I cannot establish conference without
 any hardware zaptel interface ???

 What can I do if I want make conference only between my sip phones
 using asterisk ??  Buy it ???

 Greeting
 Andrzej Radke




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