(without quoting all the interesting conversation that started this discussion)
I have been running Asterisk on 5.4-RELEASE for a while now without much trouble. I am not using the port of Asterisk for two reasons: One is that I tend to run the latest development release of Asterisk, and the other is that the port wants to install EVERYTHING which requires more prerequisites than I need. Asterisk compiles pretty well with gmake / gmake install / gmake samples (note that the Makefile requires that ports be there because it uses something from ports to determine the FreeBSD version, even if you're not compiling using ports). The only exception to my success on FreeBSD is with the initial release of Asterisk 1.2.0 on 5.4-RELEASE -- the Asterisk Milliwatt application causes Asterisk to dump core. I haven't installed the latest version of 1.2 from Subversion yet, but I don't think this has been resolved yet. The later versions from the 1.0.x train seems to work really well on FreeBSD (they did when I ran them). I am running a fairly old copy of the FreeBSD Zaptel drivers (0.9 15-May-2005) and they seem to be working yet - however, on the TDM card, I have experienced issues with audio clicking during network interrupts. So there's something going on there. I am not the only one who has reported this problem. Again, I compile Zaptel from the tarball and not through ports. They pretty much compiled without any need to do special things. Note that the initial /etc/zaptel.conf is (was?) not included with the FreeBSD zaptel drivers. You'll need to pull that from the Linux zaptel driver source. In general, the Asterisk PBX itself *should* really work pretty well on FreeBSD because the real OS-dependent stuff is the Zaptel drivers. However, there are some scary parts of Asterisk that look like they depend on compiler and OS quirks that should be fixed whether or not it runs on Linux, FreeBSD or any other OS. In short - if you're wanting to run a home PBX then running Asterisk on FreeBSD should give you pretty good results (keeping in mind the things I mentioned above). If you're running a PBX in a production environment for work, then I would run Asterisk on Linux because (at least for now) it's going to be more stable (mainly because of the number of people running it on Linux who can fix bugs). Hope this helps a little. If nothing else, you'll know someone was actually successful. --- Gil Kloepfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Asterisk-BSD mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-bsd
