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Hello All; Anyone can advise for the good phone (Polycom, Linksys, ... etc) that is a stable and support the codecs: g723, g729, and speex? Actually I would like to have the speex codec because it have the ability to compress to very high compression so we can work with the low bandwidth (for speed about 3 or 4 kbps). I tried Grandstream but really it is a bad device and not worthy to buy it or

Dears; I am facing a problem in disconnecting the calls, it is related to the rtptimeout (disconnecting if there is no RTP packets from both sides). My Asterisk Box is behind NAT but there is a static real IP address at the ADSL router. We call from the Mobile to the PSTN analogue numbers which are connected to Asterisk Analogue card (the telephone lines are analoge), and then we dial the

Hi, I'm getting some strange behaviour on Asterisk 1.4 running on Debian Stable (Lenny). I suspect it's something to do with my setup, rather than a bug, but I'm struggling to see it, and would appreciate any input. Setup: PC with two ethernet cards: eth0 goes to local network, including two SIP phones (Aastra 9112i, wired, and Nokia E75, over WIFI); eth1 goes to router and

Hi List; I need to configure a softphone to be client and use it with Asterisk, which is the recommended one? Is it iax2? Regards Bilal ____________________________________________________________________________________ Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games.

Hi All; I do not know if anyone faced such case in dealing with open vpn (as we need it for fring to be used from the mobile: Which mobile can be used to install the open vpn client on it, so we can use it to do a vpn channel with the server that has open vpn server? Regards Bilal

Hi Danny; Really I did not understand how I can determine if the IO will be DB or conf files? Is it from the Asterisk manager? Regards Bilal ------------------------- It depends on how you are configured. The gui interfaces using Asterisk Manager, so you get the Same IO from the gui that you would get from a native manager session. -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces at

Hi All; Anyone knows if there is an Asterisk version that setup can be stored in Database instead of the configuration files (.conf)? Any advise? Regards Bilal

Hi List; How can one Asterisk Box A to send a SIP call for another Asterisk Box B, and that call to be authorized based on the username and password, and not on the IP (as the IP address of the source is not known because it keep changing)? I think the trick in the Dial command, how to write it properly in a way that other Asterisk Box can recognize the sip username and password which are existed

Hi All; Till now I am not able to find a good IAX IP Phone or Gateway that can be used with good quality. Anyone can advise for good one? Regards Bilal ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost.

Hi List; I read the following sentence: "The CLI prompt is set with the ASTERISK_PROMPT UNIX environment variable" In the following link: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php page=Asterisk+CLI+prompt The question is: what is the ASTERISK_PROMPT UNIX environment variable and where I can access it to change it? Also where I can find information about it? Regards Bilal Ghayad

Hi All; I need to know which version of asterisk to use, if to be 1.4 or 1.6 or 1.8? For example, when to decide that I have to go for 1.6 or I have to go for 1.8? Regards Bilal

Hi All; I tried Firefly softphone with IAX and it gave very poor quality. Any one advise a good strong softphone that can work with IAX fine? Regards Bilal ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

Hi All; Any one can suggest a TFTP server to be installed in Fedora (same machine that Asterisk is installed) to be used for Cisco IP Phones to download the required firmware and configuration files. Thanks for the help in advance. Regards Bilal

Hi All; My ISDN was working fine, and suddenly I start getting the below: sig_pri.c:985 pri_find_dchan: Span 1: No D-chanannel anyway! There is a Yellow Alarm, so what it could be the problem? My configuration as following: system.conf span=1,1,0,ccs,hdb3,yellow bchan=1-15,17-31 dchan=16 chan_dahi.conf context=IncomingPSTN group=0 signalling=pri_cpe switchtype=euroisdn

Hello; I am looking for ADSL that supporting VPN so we can connect to it from our IPhone using the VPN to be able to register at the asterisk PBX. Any recommended one that is doing fine with voice? Also, does it support bandwidth priority or shaping for the protocols? Regards Bilal -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hi List; What is the difference between WaitExten function and TIMEOUT (response)? As I see that both are used to determine the allowed time to enter the digits, any one can advise? Regards Bilal ____________________________________________________________________________________ Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today!

Hi List; Is there an Digium cards support GSM SIM cards so we can fix an SIM card to be used for calls within mobiles as it is less rate? Or I have to use an FXS to SIM adaptor? If yes, then anyone advise a models and prices? Regards Bilal ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo!

Hi All; How to let the virualbox (ubuntu OS) to be able to see the digium card? Because when I install elastix or asterisk with dahdi, it is not able to see the digium card if the installation though the virualbox .. What is the solution? Regards Bilal

Hi All; Can anyone advise if using Cisco IP Phones in skinny protocol is fine or not? Or it is better to use it in SIP protocol? Regards Bilal

I need to select a line from the Zap group channel using the SIP Phone (not FXO and not FXS ports). ignorepat does not work? Also, what is the method to let the second dial tone has another tone frequency? Regards Bilal ---------------- No, ignorepat is for FXS ports (FXS ports use FXO signaling). Also, ignorepat does not apply to SIP phones, because SIP phones provide their own dialtone,