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...h the archives and tried several variations in Google, and I haven't found anything on-point... So I'm hoping someone here may be able to help this relative Asterisk neophyte shed some light on an issue: I have a box running Asterisk 1.4.22 in our lab with several Cisco 7961G phones and an AEX804E card (4 FXO, hardware echo cancellation). The server and all phones are on the same subnet (10.2.0.x/255.255.255.0) of the local LAN with no NAT, routing, firewall, etc., etc. between the server and the phones. Periodically I'm seeing calls placed from the 7961s through anything on the PBX t...

...s with a site-to-site (aka router-to-router) VPN. Both sites have Cisco 7961G phones [with SIP firmware] on users' desks, and the only VoIP is internal - all of our outward telecom is on POTS or Centrex-enabled POTS lines. Site 1 has a Dell PowerEdge 1950 with Asterisk built from source and an AEX804E to connect to the outside world. Site 2 has an Asterisk Appliance with the 4 FXO / 4 FXS configuration, with the FXS ports currently unused. The PBXes at each site are configured to be essentially independent but with a unified dial plan so that calls can be placed or transferred across the VPN w...

I'm looking for some info on the Asterisk Appliance. I understand it has a gui, but can I still do all the dialplan config that I'm used of doing by hand outside of the gui? If I really wanted to, could I even ignore that the device has a gui and do all my config in the files? I guess I'm just wondering if it will be as flexible as a 'vanilla' asterisk install from source on a