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People, I will install asterisk on my Debian Etch box without a PSTN interface card. I want to use only softphones for the moment. My question are: 1) Is it enough to install with "apt-get" the asterisk 1.2 or do I have to get asterisk 1.4 manually ??? 2) Do I have to configure a dummy PSTN interface in my case ?? And if you have a debian-asterisk howto, I really thank you. Regards,

Dear people, is it possible to have presence using Asterisk 1.2.13 / SIP with Linux/Debian Etch??? I'd like to see if my intranet contacts are available, busy, disconnected.... Thanks a lot Alejandro

Dear all, I'll implement a VoIP system using Asterisk + SIP with softphones; I need to connect LAN and VPN users (about 100-150). What version/installation of asterisk do you recommend tyo me ??? Does Asterisk@Home or Trixbox match to my scenario ???? By the way, I use Debian Etch as OS server. Really thanks. Alejandro --

Dear all, I have to install an E1 card in my Asterisk 1.4.23 server and here is my short question: Is it necessary to install or update any Asterisk/Zaptel/Any extra module or the default installation is good enough to just plug and run the E1 card ???? Thanks a lot Alejandro

Dear all, I'll install Asterisk 1.4 in an IBM xSeries 226 server with four HD's available, using CentOS as the OS. What's the best RAID type recommendation ??? RAID 1 or RAID 5 ??? Regards Alejandro

Dear all, I have an Asterisk SIP server in a LAN environment and I want your opinion in order to decide the use of an audio codec: What audio codec is better, G.711a or G.711u ??? Which suites to my LAN voip calls ??? Thank you !!! Alejandro -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Dear all, I'm using Asterisk 1.4 as my SIP server of my LAN users. The SIP clients are using different operating systems such Debian, Gentoo and Windows XP so they use different SIP softphones like SJPhone, Twinkle and X-Lite. In order to let SIP clients to see the presence status to each other, do I have to establish any special setting in Asterisk 1.4 ??? Or the presence status (online,

Dear, I need to create a custom device extension in order to dial a local queue. Suppose my queue number is 8888, how can fill the Dial field from the custom extension ??? Because if I put just 8888 or Local/8888, I don't succeed. Thanks a lot

Dear all, I have Asterisk 1.4 with SIP. I have a voicemail implemented with GSM sound files. The problem is I have IP phones Utopix HyperPhone 202 which support only G.729a/u and G.723.1 high/low, but not GSM. If I choose G.729A the "pass-throu" calls among users are OK, but Asterisk can't transcode GSM to G.729A in voicemail calls. My company doesn'y want to pay for a G.729

Dear all, I have Asterisk 1.4.13 and I need to use encryption among Asterisk and my SIP users, and with the RTP data interchanged among users. I prefer the use of ZRTP/SRTP because we use Twinkle and X-Lite/Zfone as our voip clients and they support these encryption mechanism. My question is: do I have to enable any encryption support in Asterisk 1.4.13 ??? Or Asterisk has native encryption

Dear all, I have an Asterisk SIP PBX using GSM codec at peers and in voicemail sounds files (I have Spanish sounds). But now I have a problem because I have to use G.729 mandatory at peers, and I have GSM in voicemail sound files. I can't let Asterisk do trascoding because I have no a DSP in the CPU, and I don't want to degrade the PBX performance with trascoding tasks. So how can I

Dear, I have asterisk 1.6.2.13 in a small hardware PBX (512 GB RAM and Celeron), and last days when I call from one extension to another of the same PBX after I dial the number the rings sound after 20 seconds. In the CLI log, when I debug the AGI, I see always goes good until dialparties.agi, and after that there are 20 seconds without any log, and so the ring sound. I've read

I have Asterisk 1.2.13 installed as a Debian package and I edit only sip.conf and extensions.conf in this way: sip.conf: [general] realm=work.com.ar ; Realm for digest authentication bindport=5060 ; UDP Port to bind to (SIP standard port is 5060) bindaddr=0.0.0.0 ; IP address to bind to (0.0.0.0 binds to all) srvlookup=yes

Dear all, I have Asterisk 1.4.13 as a SIP server for my company with 100 peers (I mean users) and everything work fine. I have the following question: what is the maximum number of peers that I can reach with Asterisk ??? I know Asterisk is not a SIP server basically like OpenSER, so I'm confused. Thanks a lot, Alejandro

Dear all, I have an Asterisk 1.4.13 with SIP protocol and several voip clients (Twinkle, X-Lite and SJPhone). Every call among voip clients pass through the Asterisk server, so there isn't any voip packet client-to-client. Can Asterisk control the RTP open ports the voip clients use ??? Or the RTP open ports depend on the voip clients ??? Special thanks Alejandro

Dear all, I need to build a PBX based on Asterisk for a call center. I have worked with raw Asterisk but it's hard to work for big implementations think. Also I have worked with Trixbox CE for a small bussines and it was prette good, but I have not have many features like ACD. I know there is another version called Trixbox PRO -specially Call Center edition- that's not free but has got

Dear all, I have Asterisk 1.4 and I'm using the voicemail feature. I edit /etc/asterisk/voicemail.conf with "envelope=yes" and after that I left a message in a given mailbox near 11:00 AM. When a dial the voicemail number in order to hear the message, the Astreisk server close the cal and I get this error from te CLI: [Apr 10 14:09:08] WARNING[12955]: file.c:563 ast_openstream_full:

Dear, I have two Asterisk PBXs with an E1 interface/RJ-45 port in both boxes. I need to connect both PBXs with E1/R2 and UTP cable. What are the requirements to deploy the UTP cable ??? Straight-through or crossover ??? What are the pinouts in both peers ??? Thanks a lot, Alejandro

People, I have a Debian box with Asterisk and I've installed the Destar package in order to get web managing of my voip system. After I installed Destar, it runs on "localhost:8080", but my server does not have X-Window to access to it so I can engter the web interface.. So how can I change localhost:8080 to IP_ASTERISK:8080 in order to access Destar via web from another PC ???

Dear, when I dial *30 in order to get instructions to blacklist an extension, Idon't get the menu but I get a new dial tone. What happen please ??? What can I do to solve this ??? Thanks a lot, Alejandro