similar to: Cisco IP Phones and Asterisk

Hello Everyone, I'm trying to add a Park Button to Cisco 7960G phones connected to an Asterisk box. Does anyone know if this is possible? I'm concerned that our customer will not understand that they have to dial #700 to park a call. Are there programmable softkeys in the Cisco SIP software? Thanks so much Dan ----- Dan Levine CYTEXONE | Your Technology Specialists t: 877.CYTEXONE x

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

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; Again, the Cisco IP Phones 7942G and using Skinny: I upgraded the firmware to version 8.5 (skinny) and I am using skinny channel (chan_skinny) and the skinny.conf file. The phones are registering, but when we use them to place a call, we only hear tooooooooooo in the handset and we do not hear voice (even when we dial the digits, we only hear toooooooo .. but it dials and destination

Hi All; How to configure the buttons in the Cisco IP Phones to be used for different functionalities like "Call Forward, Call Pickup, ... etc"? For example, if I need to assign one of the buttons existed at Cisco IP Phone to be used for CallFrw, how to do this in Asterisk? Regards Bilal

Hi List; Asterisk does not have any kind of cards that can work with it to be used with Digital Phones (digital phones differ than analoge phone and differ than IP Phones). Anyone can advise about this as I did not find this on Diguim Regards Bilal Ghayad __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around

Hello; I am facing a problem to let Cisco IP Phone 7942G register on Asterisk. The firmware has been downloaded from the TFTP successfully and currently I am running this load SIP42.9-3-1SR2-1S* I feel that there is a problem in the SEPMAC.cnf.xml but really I do not know which one to be used exactly. Basically, there is some effect that appears on the Phone (for example, it is appearing the

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

I am talking about the SIP. Now the new mobiles (Nokia, Erecson, Panasonic, iPot, ... etc) all of them support SIP capability. They are able to register to any SIP server (by giving the IP address, username and password). Fring is one of the software that can be installed on the mobile devices and can register on the SIP servers. BUT, the new mobiles currently come with built in SIP (no need to

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 All; I discover that most of the voice cutting complain are coming from the Internet bandwidth when we are connecting two remote offices togethor via Asterisk or any other IP PBX. Anyone has an idea on a ADSL router that work as ADSL + Bandwidth division? So we can resolve the problem of providing a guaranteed bandwidth for the voice packets instead of suffering the voice cutting? Regards

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; 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

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!