asterisk users - Jun 2003 - zapata.conf and zaptel.conf

Can anyone explain to me the difference in zaptel.conf and zapata.conf? 
I'm trying to get a real clear understanding of them but its getting a 
little murky in places.  I will be setting up a PBX running asterisk with 
2 T100P cards.  I will be bringing a 23 channel PRI into one card and 
connecting the other card to a Nortell 24 channel FXS channel bank.  As I 
understand it zapata.conf is how I configure my channels much like 
IAX.conf or SIP.conf.  Where I'm a bit confused is I think I'm 
understanding it configures the PRI channels but the channel bank channels 
as well.  Would this be correct? If this is the case how does zaptel.conf 
come in to play? If I'm understanding it correctly, zaptel.conf is used to 
configure the T100 cards?  I'm a little bit lost here.  What exactly would 
I be configuring here?  Just telling it what type of cards they are? Sorry 
for such stupid questions but I'm a telephony newbie.  Taking a big plunge 
here. I'm going straight from kindergarden to college.  Again thanks all.
AJ

You configure zaptel.conf since zaptel interface drives the boards. In
general you can configure the hardware part (dchannels, clear channels -
dchannel needs to be run in HDLC mode, circuit timing, framing, etc)

Zapata.conf belongs to asterisk and you need to tell asterisk which
channels to use and what signalling to configure it with.

Your config will propably be:

zaptel.conf
span=1,1,0,esf,b8zs
span=2,0,0,esf,b8zs
bchan=1-23
dchan=24
fxoks=25-48
loadzone=us
defaultzone=us

zapata.conf
[channels]
signalling=pri_cpe
switchtype=national
group = 1
context = incoming
channel => 1-23

signalling=fxo_ks
group = 2
context = internal
callerid = <1000>
channel => 25-48

Notice that I skipped many other settings that you propably need to
familiarise yourself with (look in zapata.conf.sample)

regards
Martin

On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 firedude@shorelinuxsolutions.com wrote:
> Can anyone explain to me the difference in zaptel.conf and zapata.conf?
> I'm trying to get a real clear understanding of them but its getting a
> little murky in places.  I will be setting up a PBX running asterisk with
> 2 T100P cards.  I will be bringing a 23 channel PRI into one card and
> connecting the other card to a Nortell 24 channel FXS channel bank.  As I
> understand it zapata.conf is how I configure my channels much like
> IAX.conf or SIP.conf.  Where I'm a bit confused is I think I'm
> understanding it configures the PRI channels but the channel bank channels
> as well.  Would this be correct? If this is the case how does zaptel.conf
> come in to play? If I'm understanding it correctly, zaptel.conf is used
to
> configure the T100 cards?  I'm a little bit lost here.  What exactly
would
> I be configuring here?  Just telling it what type of cards they are? Sorry
> for such stupid questions but I'm a telephony newbie.  Taking a big
plunge
> here. I'm going straight from kindergarden to college.  Again thanks
all.
> AJ
>
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zaptel.conf  configures the kernel space driver
zapata.conf configures the user space application (asterisk) that 
implements the kernel driver


for a PRI a zaptel.conf could simply look like:

bchan=1-23
dchan=24



Jeremy McNamara


firedude@shorelinuxsolutions.com wrote:
>Can anyone explain to me the difference in zaptel.conf and zapata.conf? 
>I'm trying to get a real clear understanding of them but its getting a 
>little murky in places.  I will be setting up a PBX running asterisk with 
>2 T100P cards.  I will be bringing a 23 channel PRI into one card and 
>connecting the other card to a Nortell 24 channel FXS channel bank.  As I 
>understand it zapata.conf is how I configure my channels much like 
>IAX.conf or SIP.conf.  Where I'm a bit confused is I think I'm 
>understanding it configures the PRI channels but the channel bank channels 
>as well.  Would this be correct? If this is the case how does zaptel.conf 
>come in to play? If I'm understanding it correctly, zaptel.conf is used
to
>configure the T100 cards?  I'm a little bit lost here.  What exactly
would
>I be configuring here?  Just telling it what type of cards they are? Sorry 
>for such stupid questions but I'm a telephony newbie.  Taking a big
plunge
>here. I'm going straight from kindergarden to college.  Again thanks
all.
>AJ
>
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