asterisk users - Nov 2006 - special characters in alphanumeric extensions

Hi all,

I use alphanumeric names as extensions in my Asterisk architecture, 
which are the username part of the e-mail of each person at my site. 
Because Asterisk was primarily built to use numeric extensions, I'm 
having some problems with people that have usernames with dots between 
letters, like "john.doe".
More specifically my problem is when john.doe dials some number. 
Asterisk doesn't match his rule in extensions.conf. I have in that file 
the following line:

exten => _[0-9]./john.doe,1,Dial(SIP/${EXTEN}@did0,60)

When that user dials some number, Asterisk never matches his rule. This 
only happens because dots are special parameters for Asterisk. I've 
tried to put a slash "\" before the dot, but nothing happens!...

Any suggestion?

Thanks in advance,
Ricardo.

Hi,

I am trying to decide which BRI card to buy and am looking at the B410P. I
have the following questions and hope that you guys can give me some advice.

1) Anyone uses the B410P with Asterisk with good or bad comment? And how
does the B410P compared to the others like the AVM or the Beronet.

2) I think the B410P is using the mISDN driver. I also read that the mISDN
driver will have problem with SMP kernel, so if I want to use the B410P, I
should not get any duo core CPU with the computer, right?  Also, if this is
true, maybe I will be better off with a card that uses the CAPI driver like
the AVM?

3) The installation guide on digium http://kb.digium.com/entry/55/131/ says
that I need at least Linux kernel 2.6.15. Does this mean that CentOS 4.4 is
not compatible with it?

Thanks in advance!!

Best Regards,

King