asterisk users - Jun 2004 - Newbie questions about ISDN&zapata.conf, outbound dialing, TDMoE

Hi,

I spent some hours working my way through the WIKI and a number of other 
documentations, but after all, three questions are still left:

1. I'm using a Fritz!Card with the i4l driver - no problem at all,  my 
Grandstream BT 100 rings when I diall a regular phone number.
Is there any need for me to configure the zapata.conf for the ISDN card to get 
a special asterisk feature or is this file really only necessary for zapata 
devices?

2. Is outbound dialing only configured in the extension.conf or do I have to 
edit another file?

3. I want to connect two asterisk servers over a vpn tunnel (perhaps with 
static, maybe with dynamic addresses). Is TDMoE the thing I have to look at 
to set this up? The corresponding wiki article says that I must have a zaptel 
interface ?!

Thanks a lot for any helpful comment.
RTFM is okay, as long as you tell me the right page(s), too. ;.))

Stefan
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On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Stefan-Michael. [iso-8859-15] G?nther (in-put GbR) wrote:
> 1. I'm using a Fritz!Card with the i4l driver - no problem at all,  my 
> Grandstream BT 100 rings when I diall a regular phone number.
> Is there any need for me to configure the zapata.conf for the ISDN card to
get
> a special asterisk feature or is this file really only necessary for zapata
> devices?
zapata.conf is only for Zap devices.  I believe modem.conf configures 
isdn4linux.

You should definitely look at the CAPI driver that Kapejod wrote, though.  
www.junghanns.net.

It delivers much better latency, and more features.
> 2. Is outbound dialing only configured in the extension.conf or do I have
to
> edit another file?
There's stuff in modem.conf.  But like I said you should look at
Kapejod's
CAPI driver.
> 3. I want to connect two asterisk servers over a vpn tunnel (perhaps with 
> static, maybe with dynamic addresses). Is TDMoE the thing I have to look at
> to set this up? The corresponding wiki article says that I must have a
zaptel
> interface ?!
You'll use IAX to link your two servers.

Steve