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Testing IAX2 Trunks July 31, 2007

Posted by ieniall in VoIP.
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How about ping for IAX2 :-)

http://www.bpvn.com/asterisk/iaxping.zip

Asterisk Realtime IAX2 Trunks July 31, 2007

Posted by epower in Asterisk, Asterisk.realtime, VoIP, realtime.
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As Brian mentioned, Realtime is a favorite subject of ours. And so I needed to set up a number of IAX2 trunks using Realtime (long story).

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Using multiple servers and one database with regserver July 24, 2007

Posted by bbarrett in Asterisk, VoIP, realtime.
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Asterisk’s Realtime is a favourite subject of ours apparently. We have a phone system here in the TSSG, which consists of one Asterisk machine inside our network and another external to the network peered with it. They both share the same database so a user can register on either machine.

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Review of “Asterisk PBX Guide” book July 17, 2007

Posted by ieniall in Books.
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The Asterisk PBX guide is the new Asterisk Book currently being sold by Amazon in the states. After going through most of the book in detail Ive finally got around to reviewing it. Comments as follows ::

  • The book starts of with an introduction into Asterisk 1.4 including a complete step buy step guide on how to configure Asterisk from the ground up .. excellent for newbies
  • If anybody has taken the Asterisk Bootcamp course, this book will seem particularly familiar at first glance …. however, its quite detailed in parts and even for the experienced Asterisk user will answer some of those ” ahh thats what its for ” questions.
  • For Asterisk Newbies the book turns out a bit stronger than the O’Reily book ( although the 2nd edition of this is coming out soon )
  • The physical quality of the book (paper) is quite poor and the 370 pages probably an actual 250 due to the excessive large font type used. There are also a number of mistakes and grammatical errors.

Overall for the beginner this is probably the best book on the market at present explaining most of the core applications that Asterisk is capable of. However, for experienced asterisk users wait for the “Asterisk Cookbook”

Cheating around ‘include’ in Asterisk realtime July 17, 2007

Posted by bbarrett in Asterisk, func_odbc.
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Asterisk’s realtime configuration has many benefits, no more dropped calls when changing minor things or adding users. You can put your entire dial plan into realtime… almost.

One of the biggest differences between extensions.conf and Asterisk’s Realtime dial plan is that one can no longer include other contexts into another context. This is the classic way of building an tiered dialling rule hierarchy, create the most restrictive context, then use ‘include’ to add more and more allowed numbers. (more…)