asterisk users - Sep 2003 - T1 - A little guidance needed to get started, What order to do zaptel, zapata...

I have about a dozen SIP phones up and working, now I want to connect the
asterisk box to our Fujitsu 9600 PBX. I currently have two dial-up servers
conencted to the Fujitsu PBX that I built with mgetty/pppd and have the
lines provisioned the same way as those dial-up server, ESF, B8ZS, and E&M
wink start, so I have confidence in the guys who set up the PBX.

I've built a loop back plug for T1 and looped it both directions, I can
get the Digum T100P card to go green as well as the PBX port. So I have
confidence in the wiring.

I don't understand the relation ship between zaptel and zapata and wether
I need to config a dail plan or anything else in asterisk before I get
the T1 up. So do I start with /etc/zaptel.conf and the zaptel module.

Then work with the zapata stuff (Does this have a module), then asterisk.

There seems to be a lot of docs scattered around about asterisk is a good
list where docs are, and some kind of overview.  I'm a router/linux guy
not a PBX guy and the architecture and nomenclature are unfamilure to me,
is there a PBX book I should read for background info.

Oh and how does one make the equivalent of a defaut route in the dial
plan, ie any call not listed in the dial plan goes out the T1

Thanks in advance.


Mark Vickers, RealNetworks Inc.  Desk: (206) 674-2391  Fax: (206)674-3588

More info:

cat /etc/zaptel.conf |grep -v "^#"
span=1,1,0,esf,b8zs
e&m=1-24
loadzone = us
defaultzone=us

cat /etc/asterisk/zapata.conf |grep -v "^;"
[channels]
context=default
signalling=em_w
group=1
channel => 1-24

lsmod:
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
wct1xxp                12320  24
zaptel                180416  50  [wct1xxp]
ppp_generic            15776   0  [zaptel]
slhc                    4384   0  [ppp_generic]

dmesg:
Freed a Wildcard
Zapata Telephony Interface Unloaded
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
Zapata Telephony Interface Registered on major 196
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 01:09.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1f.3
Framer: DS21552, Revision: 3 (T1)
Found a Wildcard: Digium Wildcard T100P T1/PRI
Registered tone zone 0 (United States / North America)
Using ESF/B8ZS coding/framing
Calling startup (flags is 4099)


Thanks again


Mark Vickers, RealNetworks Inc.  Desk: (206) 674-2391  Fax: (206)674-3588

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 mvickers@real.com wrote:
>
> I have about a dozen SIP phones up and working, now I want to connect the
> asterisk box to our Fujitsu 9600 PBX. I currently have two dial-up servers
> conencted to the Fujitsu PBX that I built with mgetty/pppd and have the
> lines provisioned the same way as those dial-up server, ESF, B8ZS, and
E&M
> wink start, so I have confidence in the guys who set up the PBX.
>
> I've built a loop back plug for T1 and looped it both directions, I can
> get the Digum T100P card to go green as well as the PBX port. So I have
> confidence in the wiring.
>
> I don't understand the relation ship between zaptel and zapata and
wether
> I need to config a dail plan or anything else in asterisk before I get
> the T1 up. So do I start with /etc/zaptel.conf and the zaptel module.
>
> Then work with the zapata stuff (Does this have a module), then asterisk.
>
> There seems to be a lot of docs scattered around about asterisk is a good
> list where docs are, and some kind of overview.  I'm a router/linux guy
> not a PBX guy and the architecture and nomenclature are unfamilure to me,
> is there a PBX book I should read for background info.
>
> Oh and how does one make the equivalent of a defaut route in the dial
> plan, ie any call not listed in the dial plan goes out the T1
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Mark Vickers, RealNetworks Inc.  Desk: (206) 674-2391  Fax: (206)674-3588
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