Jono muttered something like:<br>
<br>
>Hi all,<br>
><br>
>Just to let you know, with the help of Ade, I got my SIP phone<br>
>working. Getting it working with SIPGate was a piece of cake. :)<br>
><br>
>Now onto asterisk, but as I said the other night - it seems a bit of a<br>
>configuration nightmare!<br>
><br>
> Jono<br>
<br>
Hi - <br>
<br>
[ Sorry to break the thread but all my mail to WolvesLUG is getting
bounced from my work account over the past week! Maybe they changed
their reverse lookup requirements or something.. i just re-subscribed]<br>
<br>
SIP... Asterisk... I've been playing a lot with this over the past year.<br>
<br>
Configuration is baffling at first but once the core setup is done (and
all the trickiness is with Zaptel interfaces (ISDN, Modems etc) - if
you are running a pure VoIP setup with no trunk lines it is a lot
easier) there is not a lot to change apart from:<br>
<br>
/etc/asterisk/sip.conf << define SIP devices and how you interface with them<br>
/etc/asterisk/voicemail.conf << Voicemail boxes, passwords, voicemail2email addresses<br>
/etc/asterisk/extensions.conf << the DREADED dialplan :) how calls get routed.. call menus etc<br>
<br>
I have a decent UK dialplan so you can control who has access to local
calls, national calls, non-geographic calls, international calls etc -
please anyone ask if you would like it<br>
<br>
Also I wrote a script so you can configure all of the user stuff from
an LDAP database - my customer uses AD and he can add some attributes
to his user accounts, run the script and it auto-generates the config
and reloads the server. He can add people and phones to the system
without knowing a thing about asterisk. It would work with any LDAP
database.<br>
<br>
In summary asterisk rocks!<br>
<br>
~sm<br>