I am new to this list, and I searched to find the answer to my question, but could not find it. Can I do the following using "Asterisk" ... Load Asterisk on a PC running linux. Logon to VoIP service like http://www.freeworldialup.com/ to using your ethernet. Asterisk, routes the call from the PC to a regular phone connected to through the modem. When I am receiving the VOIP call, I hear the ring on my phone connected to the modem. Has anybody done it? Can you please direct me to the instructions for the same. Thanks, Hemant
Modems are FXO devices (designed to connect to a telephone line from the phone company). You need an FXS device, like a Digium card or an Internet PhoneJack to attach your standard analog phone to. Other than than, yes, Asterisk will do exactly what you are asking. You just need the right hardware and you're all set. Daryl G. Jurbala Introspect.net Consulting Tel: +1 215 825 8401 Fax: +1 508 526 8500 http://www.introspect.net PGP Key: http://www.introspect.net/pgp> -----Original Message----- > From: Hemant Kumar [mailto:HKumar@nvidia.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 3:52 PM > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Newbee Question > > > I am new to this list, and I searched to find the answer to > my question, but could not find it. > > Can I do the following using "Asterisk" ... > > Load Asterisk on a PC running linux. Logon to VoIP service > like http://www.freeworldialup.com/ to using your ethernet. > Asterisk, routes the call from the PC to a regular phone > connected to through the modem. When I am receiving the VOIP > call, I hear the ring on my phone connected to the modem. > > Has anybody done it? Can you please direct me to the > instructions for the same. > > Thanks, > Hemant > > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/aster> isk-users >
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 14:51, Hemant Kumar wrote:> I am new to this list, and I searched to find the answer to my question, but > could not find it.Then you didn't do much if any looking. The information is there. In the interest of not just loosing the fire hose on you, below is your answers.> Can I do the following using "Asterisk" ... > > Load Asterisk on a PC running linux. Logon to VoIP service like > http://www.freeworldialup.com/ to using your ethernet. Asterisk, routes the > call from the PC to a regular phone connected to through the modem. When I > am receiving the VOIP call, I hear the ring on my phone connected to the > modem. > > Has anybody done it? Can you please direct me to the instructions for the > same.You can not use modems. You should review some basic telephony books to understand the signaling between the switch and the handset. Specifically the use of battery, and who or what devices provide it and which devices use it. It is a good chance every piece of telephony hardware you have touched is a FXO device. This means it is a consumer of the battery or easier to remember is that it points to the Foreign eXchange office. To use them you need a FXS port to provide battery power and ring voltages. These are the devices that Digium sells. You will want one of the Wildcard boards that are capable of 1-4 ports of FXS, and soon FXO. This would let you configure up the number of extensions and lines you wish to use. You could even plug your home phone line into your asterisk machine and have it ring the same phone that your FWD account rings. As for FWD, some have been able to from time to time. I have not, but I didn't try too hard either. -- Steven Critchfield <critch@basesys.com>
I am new to asterisk and am wanting to know if it can do some things: in a large/ distributed environment users move about either office to office or branch to branch can they log in and have their virtual extension routed to the one they are on? naturaly this implies the question: if branch servers are used can they ceep track of where a virtual extension is currently attached?
Chris Lee wrote:> I am new to asterisk and am wanting to know if it can do some things: > > in a large/ distributed environment users move about either office to > office or branch to branch can they log in and have their virtual > extension routed to the one they are on? > > naturaly this implies the question: if branch servers are used can > they ceep track of where a virtual extension is currently attached? >This is somthing that I said was needed a while ago.. you can view the thread here.. http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000102 .. currently its not somthing that is supported by Asterisk, you may be able to write you own application to support it if you need it.. Later..