asterisk users - Dec 2005 - Re: Asterisk-Users Digest, Vol 17, Issue 111

do i need any ports open inorder to use send mail from behind a router

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>    1. Re: Shutting down Asterisk when not in RTP Stream (BJ Weschke)
>    2. RE: Asterisk Limitations (James Sturges)
>    3. Re: ACD with polycom ip phones (Matthew)
>    4. Re: Re: Codecs. (Rich Adamson)
>    5. Re: DTMFMODE with grandstream (Rich Adamson)
>    6. Re: ACD with polycom ip phones (Kevin P. Fleming)
>    7. Re: ACD with polycom ip phones (hgaillac-sip@yahoo.fr)
>    8. Re: ACD with polycom ip phones (Adam Goryachev)
>    9. Re: ACD with polycom ip phones (hgaillac-sip@yahoo.fr)
>   10. Re: ACD with polycom ip phones (Kevin P. Fleming)
>   11. Callware VoiceOne released: a  new, easy web GUI
>       (kleis-asterisk-dev@tiscali.it)
>   12. Re: ISDN/CAPI outgoing calls - weirdness with ringing
>       (Jason Williams)
>   13. NVFaxDetect (hgaillac-sip@yahoo.fr)
>   14. Can't call out on ZAP channel - need help (Michael Sampson)
>   15. Re: ACD with polycom ip phones (hgaillac-sip@yahoo.fr)
>   16. Re: Asterisk <-> Skype anywhere/anyhow? (Paul Hewlett)
>   17. Re: DTMFMODE with grandstream (giti@dataproducts.ae)
>   18. Problem using Queue and Sip Soft (Julien SIRBU)
>   19. RE: Can't call out on ZAP channel - need help (O'Connor,
Jonathan)
>   20. Re: What is the best Dell Machine for Asterisk? (Walt Reed)
>   21. Re: Can't call out on ZAP channel - need help (Michael Sampson)
>   22. RE: Re: ztdummy / timer problem with kernel 2.6.14
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>   23. unsubscribe please (Jason Brashear)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 07:49:41 -0500
> From: BJ Weschke <bweschke@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Shutting down Asterisk when not in RTP
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> On 12/18/05, Douglas Garstang <dgarstang@oneeighty.com> wrote:
> 
>>Hi Tyler.
>>
>>We're registering users with OpenSER, which also routes the calls to
a series of Asterisk systems. The really tricky part is allowing different
phones entering through different Asterisk systems to reach other. Currently,
the solution is to, upon registration from phones, issue a forward() command in
OpenSER to forward the registration to every Asterisk system. In this way, every
Asterisk box knows about every phone and it doesn't matter which Asterisk
system takes the call.
>>
>>It's not a perfect solution though. When OpenSER sends the forward()
request to Asterisk, it also sends back the 'Trying' and 'Ok'
messages to the phones (We're using Polycom's). The phones don't
seem to have a problem with these extraneous messages.... so far. A better
solution would have been to use t_replicate() in OpenSER, which absorbs these
messages, but you can only call t_replicate once.
>>
>>We may still end up sending all calls BACK through OpenSER again to
terminate the call, as it knows the location of all the phones as well. This is
easy from a simple dial plan perspective, but I'm not sure yet how some of
the more advanced Asterisk features such as hints and ACD Queues will work when
specifying @proxy for their location. I'd prefer to leave OpenSER out of the
equation though.  Just trying to get it to do failure_route() etc to Asterisk is
a huge pain considering the docs on it are soooo bad. Oh yeah.... check out the
use of failure_route with t_relay() when sending calls to Asterisk in a
redundant fashion. It seems to be working well so far. Failover is very fast. I
also saw a post on the OpenSER list last night saying that the dispatcher (which
we had looked at before) now supports failure_route too. We liked it initially
because it can load balance on call-id and give you a roughly even call
distribution.
>>
>>Don't try using realtime either.... it's hard to believe but you
can't use it for sharing a common contact database between Asterisk systems.
Digium have admitted to this.
>>
> 
> 
>  Asterisk is not a SIP proxy. That's why you see that it still knows
> about the calls even though the media has been reinvited away.
> Asterisk always knows about the state of its SIP calls given that it's
> a B2BUA instead of a SIP proxy.
> 
> --
> Bird's The Word Technologies, Inc.
> http://www.btwtech.com/
> 
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:06:19 +1000
> From: "James Sturges" <thinking@1am.com.au>
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Limitations
> To: "'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial
Discussion'"
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> 
> Hey,
> 
> That is not what I meant!!!!
> 
> I   L O V E  ASTERISK, every other PBX I have had to deal with, always had
> some limitation, I am only using 1.0.7 and really have found nothing
> limiting.
> 
> We run ISDN 30 line, Reception get 440+ calls per day, dial out 23,000
calls
> per month all fully integrated into an old PABX. 
> 
> My reference was spouse to come across "Go back to old style PBX and
you
> will be disappointed!" 
> 
> My public apologies for anyone on the list.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> James
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of trixter aka
> Bret McDanel
> Sent: Monday, 12 December 2005 9:07 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Limitations
> 
> On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 09:00 +1000, James Sturges wrote:
> 
>>Or.....
>>
>>You can go back to a Traditional PBX and really experience the meaning
of
>>the phrase  { significant "limitations". }
>>
> 
> 
> That is a really bad excuse for limitations however, and actually does
> more harm than good.  While it may be true that asterisk has fewer
> limitations than another product to say that your option is to use
> asterisk or something else more limiting doesnt get any of the problems
> fixed.  At least the person you replied to gave constructive answers to
> remove some of the limitations, such as looking at CVS/bugtracker for
> patches or paying money to get someone motivitated to fix them. 
>

yikes,
25 and 110 will allow mail - but please without the whole digest attached. 
And wouldn't your question be more useful with a better subject field? now 
no one will see me addressing a question I know an answer to.