Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk-users Digest, Vol 81, Issue 12

2011-04-05 Thread Bill Michaelson
Discussion Cc: Bill Michaelson Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Bill Michaelson wrote: >fail2ban might be good for this. > > I think you missed the point, which is reducing the need for an external applic

Re: [asterisk-users] Iptables configuration to handle brute, force registrations?

2011-04-05 Thread Bill Michaelson
fail2ban might be good for this. On 04/05/2011 01:00 PM, asterisk-users-requ...@lists.digium.com wrote: Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 08:44:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Edwards Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Iptables configuration to handle brute force registrations? On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, Gilles wr

Re: [asterisk-users] Shorr/Call quality issues

2009-12-16 Thread Bill Michaelson
This is why I don't do this kind of work anymore. Impossible to distinguish the phantom problems from the real ones - and I'm convinced there ARE phantom problems when you install new telephones on people's desks. Suggestion: learn to use the facility in Wireshark that can log a SIP/RTP strea

Re: [asterisk-users] Good phone near $125

2009-03-17 Thread Bill Michaelson
Polycom IP 430 or 330. asterisk-users-requ...@lists.digium.com wrote: Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:24:33 -0400 From: "David Ruggles" I was looking at the aastra 9133i, however I was informed that this phone is no longer supported. What are good phones around the $100 - $125 price point? (Need POE

Re: [asterisk-users] $20 Bounty

2009-03-04 Thread Bill Michaelson
It's conceivable that the combined effort of these two responders required less than ten minutes of time, yielding a theoretical pay rate of $120/hour. I wonder how much effort went into the other responses. That will be $6 for my commentary, please. Folks wrote: Message: 1 Date: Tue, 3 Mar

[asterisk-users] call file concurrency

2009-02-26 Thread Bill Michaelson
Is there a convenient way to limit the number of call files (outgoing directory) that are processed concurrently? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-

Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk-users Digest, Vol 55, Issue 52

2009-02-18 Thread Bill Michaelson
> > What "economic downturn"? > > > > I'm sick and tired of hearing this mantra. I wish you the best of luck in maintaining your immunity. > > Same here (in the UK). > > As long as people need to make phone calls ... > > Gordon The economy (

Re: [asterisk-users] VPN and Asterisk

2009-02-07 Thread Bill Michaelson
"David @ULC" wrote One of my user was asking, can he use VPN to access asterisk ? What does it mean ? And its possible ? How ?VPN Sometimes what is called a VPN is not a VPN by everyone's definition, so beware. By my definition, a (IP) VPN supports full layer 3 functionality (and sometime

Re: [asterisk-users] Quiet 24 port POE gig switch

2009-02-02 Thread Bill Michaelson
How are you getting these 80 or 120mm fans in a 1U chassis? Remember you got barely 45mm to play with at the back and front of the switch. How are you going to mount a 80mm or 120mm fan on there? Are you assuming that the units mounted above (or below) your switch is a short 1U? You can't assu

Re: [asterisk-users] ligion

2008-12-05 Thread Bill Michaelson
Sometimes I do. It depends on my mood and purpose. And sometimes the author prefers to write last things first, for whatever reason. I'm kind of agnostic, too. Mike Dent wrote: >H, not sure about you but I often pick up a book and flick from >the back to the front, does nobody else do that?

Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk-users Digest, Vol 53, Issue 5

2008-12-03 Thread Bill Michaelson
From: Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Net Neutrality" is great in principle. But ISP's need to somehow control those few percentage of users who suck down a huge majority of the bandwidth. It's dollars and cents. There is a rational solution for the traffic management issue. It just needs to be

Re: [asterisk-users] What kind of IAX2 client will install/run on EEE PC 1000 (stock Linux software)?

2008-11-16 Thread Bill Michaelson
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 03:49:40PM -0700, Joseph wrote: > What kind of IAX2 client will install/run on EEE PC 1000 (stock Linux software)? > > I'll eventually replace this crippled Linux with something better but I don't time to play around with it as most divers and modules are still too new

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread Bill Michaelson
Alex Balashov wrote: Send asterisk-users mailing list submissions to asterisk-users@lists.digium.com I'm pretty sure they meant two logical networks. At least, I hope they did. Unfortunately, I was indeed referring to two physical networks. Cabling, switches, everything, all the way

[asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread Bill Michaelson
I'm wondering how prevalent the practice of physically segregating voice and data networks is in the Real World. What are the factors that typically lead to such a decision? DIscussions of pros and cons are most welcome by me. Experiences, anybody? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptogra

Re: [asterisk-users] Sonicwall potentially causing long ping times to SIP phones

2008-10-24 Thread Bill Michaelson
Kristian Kielhofner wrote: On 10/23/08, Bruce Komito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We've had LOTS of problems with Sonicwalls doing bad things to SIP and RTP > connections. I've seen the delay thing, as well as the Sonicwall throwing > away entries from the ARP table because of inactivity.

Re: [asterisk-users] Sonicwall potentially causing long ping times to SIP phones

2008-10-23 Thread Bill Michaelson
Sorry for asking the obvious question, but are there other elements of the slow path besides the Sonicwall? I mean, what is "in front" of the Sonicwall? Also, might the Sonicwall be positioned as some kind of choke point in the topology, thus leading to genuine sporadic congestion? James Laman

[asterisk-users] OT: Polycom IP330 user problem

2008-10-18 Thread Bill Michaelson
I recently sent this email to a user in response to a problem report of phone calls going to voicemail without the phone ringing. I'm wondering if I've covered all bases, or whether there is some logical explanation I haven't considered, and generally what others' opinions/experiences are that

Re: [asterisk-users] is there a way

2008-10-11 Thread Bill Michaelson
Steve Totaro wrote: My only wish is that Linux had a facility like XP to bridge NICs without running all sorts of commands for brctl. Just a GUI like XP. Last time I setup a bridge in Linux, I had to change many kernel options and rebuild the entire kernel to get bridging working properly. Wi

Re: [asterisk-users] OT: headsets

2008-10-06 Thread Bill Michaelson
Jay R. Ashworth wrote: >In our call center (250 agents), we use Panasonic KX-TCA60 headsets, which >I think we get for 7 or 8 bucks apiece, and sell to the agents at cost. Thanks for that - they look good, and I found several recommendations for them after I got yours and started looking for them

[asterisk-users] OT: headsets

2008-10-05 Thread Bill Michaelson
Some users at a new Asterisk installation with Polycom IP330 phones are complaining about echo with the amplified headsets they used to use with their Nortel phones. I listened myself, and I here my own voice annoyingly loudly, and no headset/phone combination of volume control manipulation pr

[asterisk-users] [Fwd: asterisk-users Digest, Vol 51, Issue 2]

2008-10-01 Thread Bill Michaelson
>From: "Joseph L. Casale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Does anyone have any perspective on how well Asterisk performs and scales inside a Xen hypervisor environment? I tried on many different pieces of hardware with various recent Xen versions and it always had some level of unpredictability and was n

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk in VM.

2008-10-01 Thread Bill Michaelson
My experience is very limited, but you asked for any perspective, so... I put an Asterisk with freePBX on a linode server (linode.com), just to play with it a few months ago. I can say that it worked to the point of being able to dial out with my Polycom phone on a FiOS connection, through th

Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk-users Digest, Vol 50, Issue 89

2008-09-30 Thread Bill Michaelson
Interesting to see it done. Vitelity claims it is impossible. The number is 212-651-5632. BTW, if you provide the originating number, the underlying carrier can be determined, either by the pooling or NANPA block it is assigned to, or its LRN if ported. If you want, you can privately e-mail

Re: [asterisk-users] Maybe OT - routing calls in PSTN

2008-09-30 Thread Bill Michaelson
That is my position, and I appreciate the affirmation, as well as the offer to determine the carrier. I might email you about that. But having no business relationship with the other carrier, it is at best awkward for me to initiate contact on this matter, and this should be obvious to Vitelity

[asterisk-users] Maybe OT - routing calls in PSTN

2008-09-29 Thread Bill Michaelson
I have a Vitelity DID which generally works, but calls from a particular caller do not reach it. Vitelity has thus far disavowed any responsibility for working through this problem. I recognize that some action might be required by another provider which is outside Vitelity's control, but it

[asterisk-users] E&M wink/no audio

2008-09-22 Thread Bill Michaelson
I am preparing to connect an asterisk box with a redfone fonebridge to a T1 service provider. I am doing this by testing first with another asterisk and a Sangoma card playing the role of telco. I formerly had this test configuration operating flawlessly as a PRI connection. But I discovered

Re: [asterisk-users] PRI auto-configure - continued from DEV list

2008-09-12 Thread Bill Michaelson
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: I usually configure the entire span of 24 channels (23 B + 1 D) and only the turned up channels go into service. This is good for a couple of reasons. Also note that Zaptel will anyway reserve all the 24 (for T1) or 31 (for E1) Zaptel channels for the span. So th

[asterisk-users] PRI auto-configure - continued from DEV list

2008-09-09 Thread Bill Michaelson
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Bill Michaelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm faced with an installation at a client site with supposed PRI service on > a fractional T1. Steve Totaro wrote: I usually configure the entire span of 24 channels (23 B + 1 D) and only the turn

[asterisk-users] ztd-ethmf

2008-08-22 Thread Bill Michaelson
I expected to find th module ztd-ethmf[.c...] in support of the redfone TDMoE product in my zaptel distro (I have 1.4.11). But it's not there. I am awaiting a response to a trouble ticket from redfone. Can anyone give me a jumpstart? I can't seem to google this up. smime.p7s Description: S

Re: [asterisk-users] in-call start monitoring

2008-08-06 Thread Bill Michaelson
t; > I suppose the bit to check is the features ('show features') and then > try to record a call (*1) and see what the terminal says... > > > Bill Michaelson wrote: > >> > My client needs call recording features and would like to initiate the >>

[asterisk-users] in-call start monitoring

2008-08-04 Thread Bill Michaelson
My client needs call recording features and would like to initiate the process in-call (typically *1). I'm installing Asterisk 1.4.x and FreePBX 2.4+. I'm using Polycom phones. I can't make it work. Would somebody please give a checklist of items for me to compare my list against - in the h

[asterisk-users] It's telling me too much...

2008-07-30 Thread Bill Michaelson
In case this is useful to others, a tip... I moved one of my Polycom 501's off it's subnet to another one (I've got an ether bridge glued to the back of the phone and a wireless card in the * box acting as AP). Now it is still served by the same Asterisk box, albeit through another ethernet p

Re: [asterisk-users] ?? Vitelity dtmfmode=rfc2833 started working!

2008-07-22 Thread Bill Michaelson
I appreciate your report (below), but it's a strange and disturbing coincidence for me. DTMF out through Vitelity was not working for me until 1-2 days ago when I changed it from rfc2833 to inband! Maybe I just missed the change date and I should change it back? Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 1

Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk-users Digest, Vol 48, Issue 56

2008-07-19 Thread Bill Michaelson
Message: 1 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:35:47 -0700 From: Dave Platt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm preparing for a client install of * by doing a fresh one in-house. Unlike my earlier installation that runs asterisk as superuser, my current experimental box runs without such privilege. This is ca

[asterisk-users] TOS and security

2008-07-18 Thread Bill Michaelson
I'm preparing for a client install of * by doing a fresh one in-house. Unlike my earlier installation that runs asterisk as superuser, my current experimental box runs without such privilege. This is causing it to moan that it can't set TOS. I absolutely don't want to install it on the clien

[asterisk-users] automon follup #2

2008-07-18 Thread Bill Michaelson
OK, I had broken the feature.conf fileset, but I just fixed it. Now I can confirm: pig*CLI> feature show Builtin Feature Default Current --- --- --- Pickup*8 *8 Blind Transfer# ## Attended Transfer

[asterisk-users] automon followup

2008-07-18 Thread Bill Michaelson
A followup to my own inquiry... pig*CLI> feature show Builtin Feature Default Current --- --- --- Pickup*8 *8 Blind Transfer# # Attended Transfer One Touch Monitor

[asterisk-users] automon=>*, Dial(, , Ww), rfc2833, canreinvite=no, but...

2008-07-18 Thread Bill Michaelson
After much checking and puzzling, I cannot get my Polycom 601 to toggle call recording with my Asterisk 1.4.21.1. Via FreePBX, I can set a user to always record, and the recording will show up in /var/spool/asterisk/monitor. But if I try to start recording by toggling in-call, no luck. I can

[asterisk-users] D-Link DVG-3104MS

2008-07-03 Thread Bill Michaelson
This appears to be a SIP gateway to four FXO ports for ~$250. Has anybody used it with Asterisk? Comments? http://www.ipphoneshack.com/products/D_Link_DVG_3104MS_VoiceCenter_4_Port_PSTN_Gateway-193-12.html Any good reason to pay for a Mediatrix 1204 or some other box instead? smime.p7s Descr

[asterisk-users] redfone fonebridge2

2008-06-09 Thread Bill Michaelson
I'm looking for reports of recent experience with redfone fonebridge2 (with echo can) TDMoE gizmos. Anybody? Good? Bad? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com --

[asterisk-users] PoE budget

2008-06-05 Thread Bill Michaelson
I'm considering using a PoE switch like this... http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3023334&CatId=2800 ...to power as many as 24 Polycom phones of varied kinds. The sales lit indicates >190 watts available for PoE devices. But I'm concerned about a probl

Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk-users Digest, Vol 37, Issue 46

2007-08-10 Thread Bill Michaelson
I've found OpenVPN to be easy to configure and very robust. It has a zillion options, but they are just that - options. I haven't used it for VoIP, but I've put it to good use doing layer 2 bridging which has eliminated many problems with certain programs traversing NAT and load-balancing route

Re: [asterisk-users] exits in NJ

2007-07-05 Thread Bill Michaelson
Hooyoo kiddin? Exit 34, I-80. And betta Inglish, myass... Bill, Exit 8, NJTP Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:13:47 -0400 From: Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Suing Dell||Dull Computers for CID abuse Damn!!! Beat me to it ;-} As an Englishman now living in New Jers

Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk-users Digest, Vol 35, Issue 81

2007-06-22 Thread Bill Michaelson
Yes, of course. What happens when you dial the number, Daryl? Daryl Jones wrote: > Bill Michaelson wrote: >> Is it just me, or is the AGI interface at cnam.got-name.com failing >> for others? Anyone know how to contact them without sending postal >> mail or telegram

[asterisk-users] got-name

2007-06-22 Thread Bill Michaelson
Is it just me, or is the AGI interface at cnam.got-name.com failing for others? Anyone know how to contact them without sending postal mail or telegram? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided b

[asterisk-users] T1 interface

2007-05-01 Thread Bill Michaelson
Would anyone care to recommend a T1 interface method for Asterisk that would function as an (external) alternative to a PCI card like the Digium TE120P? Like some sort of T1-SIP gateway? Also, would anyone with experience using these products care to comment on the practical value of the TE207

[asterisk-users] Re: asterisk-users Digest, Vol 33, Issue 102

2007-04-22 Thread Bill Michaelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:38:04 +1000 From: Rob Hillis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Softphone that supports central provisioning? To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Ty

[asterisk-users] Re: Mediatrix 1204 trix

2006-09-18 Thread Bill Michaelson
l Discussion" Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I have the same setup as Florian, however I have dtmfmode set to rfc instead of inband On 9/16/06, Florian Overkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Michaelson wrote

[asterisk-users] Mediatrix 1204

2006-09-16 Thread Bill Michaelson
Would anyone be kind enough to post a sip.conf fragment as a sample for use with a Mediatrix 1204? ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com

[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Imposter binary

2006-05-02 Thread Bill Michaelson
I found a bogus binary in my (obviously) hacked system in /usr/sbin. I am still investigating. FWIW, it was 608828 bytes big. It appears to have arrived recently, but I haven't determined how. Here is some more info... sum /usr/sbin/asterisk.suspect 15139 595 I'm just posting this in c

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Polycom TOS

2006-04-10 Thread Bill Michaelson
My 501 admin manual refers to a precenence field, and in another place it refers to a seven bit value. So I would guess it uses diffserv format. Does that help? Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:32:29 -0400 From: "Jonathan k. Creasy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Polycom TOS To: "Aste

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Polycom 501's for sale

2006-03-24 Thread Bill Michaelson
From: Martin Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It sounds to me like you are suggesting that a QoS infrastructure can be utilized over the internet at large? Is this only true for big guys that have an SLA in place? I would love to discover some QoS mechanism that is respected in general, but tha

[Asterisk-Users] Re: G729 and Meetme

2006-03-02 Thread Bill Michaelson
I suppose that in order to accomplish conferencing, Asterisk must produce a broadcast audio stream (waveform) which is a numerically combined derivative of all of the input audio streams. In order to do so, it almost cetainly will work with uncompressed data. Therefore, encoding such as G.729

Re: [Asterisk-Users] GPS-enabled cell phone/PDA

2006-02-24 Thread Bill Michaelson
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:56:54 + From: Steve Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] GPS-enabled cell phone/PDA On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 07:17:52AM -0600, Rich Adamson wrote: > Its my understanding the cell phone coordinates are sent to the cell phone > provider and

[Asterisk-Users] I must be missing something zimple...

2006-02-17 Thread Bill Michaelson
I'm configuring a box with a TDM400P with 2 FXS and 2 FXO. I configured the FXO's first to try them, and they worked (I could talk to myself thru the PSTN. But when I add the FXS's to zapata.conf and restart *, I have a problem... [chan_zap.so] => (Zapata Telephony w/PRI) == Parsing '/etc/a

[Asterisk-Users] re: Polycom IP501 with Asterisk - distinctive ring

2006-02-09 Thread Bill Michaelson
The answer is yes, I think, but I don't recall precisely how off the top of my head, and I'm walking out the door in a moment. The phone will hold more than a dozen distinct ring tones which you can create for yourself, and you can have asterisk direct it to use a ring tone independently of li

[Asterisk-Users] Re: OT: Legacy systems / fax

2006-01-26 Thread Bill Michaelson
Around 1978, when I was consulting to a multinational company in the business of agriculture, I witnessed this configuration in their communications center in NYC: A paper tape punch attached to a teletype machine was busily punching out a tape that was being spewed into a wastebasket. Someho

[Asterisk-Users] Re: * point to point t1 solution? / alternatives

2006-01-26 Thread Bill Michaelson
I can appreciate the desire to avoid reconfiguring existing hardware, but that is part and parcel of what we are discussing: reconfiguring hardware. Without further specification, it has no bearing on how to preserve application behavior, which is what we are trying to accomplish with this dis

Re: [Asterisk-Users] * point to point t1 solution? / alternatives

2006-01-26 Thread Bill Michaelson
Right - so I will assume this makes it slightly more efficient in that respect. And of course, any solution that uses multiple hops brings in a raft of considerations for limiting interference by other data streams - the essential QoS question. Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:16:25 - From: "St

Re: [Asterisk-Users] * point to point t1 solution?

2006-01-26 Thread Bill Michaelson
You've clarified your requirements for me. Please indulge me - I really want to understand - what are the application implications of this? In other words, what system behavioral changes will your users experience in the various scenarios (pure circuit emulation vs. relay via IAX or similar)?

Re: [Asterisk-Users] * point to point t1 solution? / alternatives

2006-01-26 Thread Bill Michaelson
This has been an interesting discussion for me (except for the sniping). The last post led me, out of curiosity, to this wiki entry: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+TDMoE I was unaware of this feature, and it looks pretty good. I've been pondering replacing some T1's by leveraging IP

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hardware recommendations

2006-01-24 Thread Bill Michaelson
Actually, call groups are yet another layer of complexity.  Let me try another explanation. With VoIP, the distinction between a call appearance capability and a line is artificial to an extent.  Think of a line as the analog for a pair of copper wires.  Think of a call appearance as call wait

Re: [Asterisk-Users] cannot change distinctive ring polycom phones

2006-01-24 Thread Bill Michaelson
In sip.cfg, add something like this: ...to correspond to something like this... Please note that I just hacked this example out of my own cfg, modified it for you, and possibly introduced an error, because it is untested now! But it was lifted from working code, so it should get you on th

[Asterisk-Users] Re: Asterisk-Users Digest, Vol 18, Issue 144

2006-01-24 Thread Bill Michaelson
I use dbget to set callerid, but it's based on account code, and set statically with the station, not the agent. Users can set callerid by dialing a function coded in the dialplan for that purpose. Overhead is not a problem. In your case, perhaps you can set the desired callerid into a chann

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Polycom FW

2006-01-20 Thread Bill Michaelson
valuating.  However, if all other things were equal (and they could become so with just some firmware improvements), this nonsense will drive me into the arms of a competing manufacturer in a heartbeat.  It's needless grief to put your customers through, and that's just stupid, in my opi

[Asterisk-Users] Polycom FW

2006-01-19 Thread Bill Michaelson
Anyone know how to obtain firmware and starter .cfg files for Polycom phones? Despite registering at the Polycom web site, I can't locate this stuff. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCR

[Asterisk-Users] Polycom 301 DTMF

2006-01-18 Thread Bill Michaelson
Just got a Polycom 301 and I'm configuring. Examples given in wiki recommend using dtmfmode=inband, so that's what I set in sip.conf for this phone, as I have for various other IP phones on my network. But the telephone does not seem to send DTMF tones up thru the network (although I hear the

[Asterisk-Users] Possible bug with GotoIfTime

2006-01-07 Thread Bill Michaelson
Running a fairly recent subversion release of Asterisk, I'm running into a problem using labels (as opposed to priorities) with this application. Here is the dialplan segment: ; isolate gotoiftime bug with labels ;exten => 806,1,GotoIfTime(8:00-20:00,*,*,*?2:4) exten => 806,1,GotoIfTime(8:00-20

[Asterisk-Users] transfer application

2006-01-06 Thread Bill Michaelson
I am having trouble understanding how to use this. I want to transfer certain incoming calls from an IAX ITSP based on caller ID. From what I can make of the docs, I thought I need to do something like this... exten => _NXXNXX,n(nocid),transfer(1000) exten => _NXXNXX,n,noop(boo,${TRAN

[Asterisk-Users] New Manager Client Program

2005-12-31 Thread Bill Michaelson
Here is a work-in-progress that provides pop-up note-taking windows based on caller-ID, outgoing call dialing from directory lookup selection, and other stuff. I hope it's useful to folks. http://asteroid.from.net ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation pr

[Asterisk-Users] Re: Asterisk-Users Digest, Vol 17, Issue 176

2005-12-30 Thread Bill Michaelson
I'm probably mistaken and unaware of a feature, but I thought the concept of dialing an agent does not exist. An agent is not a channel, but rather, someone who associates themself with a station from which they service a queue. You "dial" the queue with queue() Message: 8 Date: Fri

[Asterisk-Users] sixtel

2005-12-01 Thread Bill Michaelson
Just curious... Is there anyone out there who has given this outfit money and actually received any service from them? ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:

[Asterisk-Users] Re: manager interface behavior

2005-11-23 Thread Bill Michaelson
snacktime wrote: On 11/23/05, Bill Michaelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working on a manager client that I designed to hold open TCP > connection to asterisk while it is running for varoius purposes. After > being puzzled by unexpected behavior, I realized th

[Asterisk-Users] manager interface behavior

2005-11-23 Thread Bill Michaelson
I'm working on a manager client that I designed to hold open TCP connection to asterisk while it is running for varoius purposes. After being puzzled by unexpected behavior, I realized that the server closes the connection after it completes an "originate" action - or at least it does in the c

[Asterisk-Users] setting caller ID with Voicepulse

2005-11-22 Thread Bill Michaelson
Due to some change I've been unable to identify, my Asterisk box is no longer successfully passing caller ID to the called party with calls placed through Voicepulse. This worked just fine until recently. Also, identical code functions correctly (caller ID arrives) when the call is sent via J

[Asterisk-Users] TDM400 FXO Screech

2005-11-09 Thread Bill Michaelson
A nasty screech. That's what callers here sometimes when they dial into my FXO port from the PSTN. But usually, it works OK. Is this common? ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lis

[Asterisk-Users] ATA-488 FXO

2005-11-08 Thread Bill Michaelson
Is anyone using a Grandstream ATA-488 FXO port to connect a PSTN trunk to their Asterisk box (via SIP, of course)? Is it possible to have such a beast operate reasonably? If so, is it also possible to use the FXS port concurrently and independently? _

[Asterisk-Users] chanisavail - queuing

2005-11-03 Thread Bill Michaelson
Is there anyway to code for queuing for an available trunk. I thought of this while reading about Erlang C. Basically, the idea is that when a caller at an internal extension tries to place a call via PSTN, but all available trunks are busy, the call is placed in a FIFO queue for the first av

[Asterisk-Users] Re: feature usage/digit detection

2005-10-30 Thread Bill Michaelson
7:57 -0400 From: Andrew Kohlsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] gotta be a dumb question... To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On Sunday 30 October 2005 09:44, Bill Michaelson wro

[Asterisk-Users] gotta be a dumb question...

2005-10-30 Thread Bill Michaelson
...but I'm gonna ask it anyway, because I can't figger it out... Every call that is bridged in my * system begins with a console message like this one... -- Attempting native bridge of SIP/215-b09e and SIP/259412-5967 Now, I've got canreinvite=no in every sip definition, but it happens anyway

[Asterisk-Users] Re: FCT-11M

2005-10-25 Thread Bill Michaelson
o-8859-1" I forwarded your note below to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I found some docas on the FCT-11M at their site, but it was in Chinese, so I sent them your problem. Hope they will respond to this list and maybe to you directly. Murrah Boswel - Original Message - From: "Bill Mic

[Asterisk-Users] GSM gateway for Asterisk

2005-10-24 Thread Bill Michaelson
I recently obtained a FCT-11M GSM-analog converter box. It arrived with no documentation. So I popped in a SIM chip, and connected the the RJ11 port to an FXO port on my Asterisk box. It worked smoothly right away for inbound and outbound calls in all respects. For about an hour. Then eith

[Asterisk-Users] SIP-CPE Gateway

2005-10-03 Thread Bill Michaelson
Has anyone used the GSM-SIP gateway product produced by a company at sipcpe.com? Any comments? ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/li

[Asterisk-Users] Budgetone 101 Hold/Xfer/Conf/Flash

2005-03-05 Thread Bill Michaelson
Is it possible to use the Hold/Transfer/Conference/Flash keys of the Budgetone-101 (FW 1.0.5.22) with Asterisk? ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or up

[Asterisk-Users] Re: Asterisk-Users digest, Vol 1 #3092 - 11 msgs

2004-03-13 Thread Bill Michaelson
order in which you do a modprobe on them. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Michaelson Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 2:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Dial via X100P Just connected my X100P to Verizon. I stumbled acr

[Asterisk-Users] Dial via X100P

2004-03-12 Thread Bill Michaelson
a 1 before it dials the 609${EXTEN} Unless I'm misinterpreting what is happening? This obviously limits my possibilities. Can somebody explain to me why it dials 1, or appears to? -- Bill Michaelson - COS, Incorporated - Software Development - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for putting up with

[Asterisk-Users] IAX Native bridge

2004-03-01 Thread Bill Michaelson
utgoing" call.  And I'll get better quality for the remaining duration. But the call instead is dropped at this point instead - both sides disconnected from the cloud. Anybody know why and how this is controlled and what my options are? -- Bill Michaelson - COS, Incorporated - Software

[Asterisk-Users] Re: Outgoing parallelism

2004-02-29 Thread Bill Michaelson
Thanks, Scott. I'm in a general exploration mode, but I do have a small broadcast application in mind. My limited experimentation leads me to suspect that there is no queue management at all. I was testing with only a single call file just minutes ago, and the system tried to redial the dest

[Asterisk-Users] outgoing spool parallelism

2004-02-29 Thread Bill Michaelson
es requests based on the capacity of resource combinations required to satisfy the requests? Or is it just a single thread/processing queue for all requests found in the spool dir? Also, is there any way to control the sequencing (priority) of the "enqueued" requests? Or is it a

[Asterisk-Users] Hotel wake-up

2004-02-28 Thread Bill Michaelson
Anybody know how to implement a hotel wake-up call feature with *? -- Bill Michaelson - COS, Incorporated - Software Development - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for putting up with my spam filter! ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[Asterisk-Users] outdial broadcast

2004-02-27 Thread Bill Michaelson
Can someone refer me to an example of an automated broadcasting operation that sends a canned voice message to a list of phone #'s? -- Bill Michaelson - COS, Incorporated - Software Development - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for putting up with my spam f

[Asterisk-Users] Re: System call forked - more stuff

2004-02-21 Thread Bill Michaelson
It gets better (worse)... I had been testing with console (-c) mode.  When I allow * to run background, it crashes after the system() call (which succeeds, by the way).  The -vvv option yields these final messages before *poof*...   == Spawn extension (intern-post, 112, 1) exited non-zero on

[Asterisk-Users] Re: System called seems forked up

2004-02-21 Thread Bill Michaelson
>It is now indeed more discerning, but it has reported Fork failed. But >the fork most certainly has not failed! The shell command invoked has >run, and what's more, completed successfully, producing the expected files. > Does anyone have any ideas? [EMAIL PROTECTED] suggested: Can you c

[Asterisk-Users] System called seems forked up

2004-02-21 Thread Bill Michaelson
Attempting to correct the problem about which I earlier posted - wherein a system() call which apparently succeeds is perceived to have failed by the * process, I changed code in app_system.c so that it would be more discerning...     res = system((char *)data);     /*     if (res

[Asterisk-Users] Re: System call succeed, asterisk sees failure

2004-02-20 Thread Bill Michaelson
eply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I saw the same thing. I think I determined that it always failed at the same point in the macro, no matter what command was being executed. I just put the whole cleanup process in a shell script and I execute the shell script from the macro. Eric Message: 2 Date:

[Asterisk-Users] System cmd usage

2004-02-20 Thread Bill Michaelson
Using John Todd's example for recording, from his cleanup/conversion macro... ; Turn the two in/out .wav files into a single .wav file with both channels exten => s,3,System(/usr/local/bin/wmix ${MONITORDIR}/${CALLFILENAME}-in.wav ${\ MONITORDIR}/${CALLFILENAME}-out.wav > ${MONITORDIR}/${CALLF

[Asterisk-Users] Inbound IAX to SIP

2004-02-17 Thread Bill Michaelson
I've a SIP phone (GS 100) which dials out fine through a Voicepulse Connect account via *. And I've got a phone number which does DID in via IAX from Voicepulse. I want it to ring the GS phone for now. I have this in extensions.conf: [voicepulse-incoming] ; This context tells Asterisk what to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Digium connectivity issue?

2004-02-14 Thread Bill Michaelson
I observed a packet routing endless loop at: 16  host-63-108-128-153.apid.com (63.108.128.153) This happened with traceroute from two distinct origination points.  Seems to have been resolved. Message: 3 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 20:11:44 -0500 From: John Fraizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL

[Asterisk-Users] Re: Asterisk<->GS and codec selection

2004-02-11 Thread Bill Michaelson
> Regarding codec selection, I see a minor difference between the FWD > and the local * box test cases, but I know nothing about the > negotiation protocol... > > With FWD, the OK message lists 3 Media Formats: > > Bingo...GS chokes with GSM...just disallow it in your sip.conf: disallow=all

[Asterisk-Users] Re: asterisk-grandstream call

2004-02-10 Thread Bill Michaelson
>I am trying to muddle my way tthrough getting something - actually >anything to work - with Asterisk. I've acquired a Grandstream phone and >I've got * on a Red Hat 9 box. I've gotten to a point where I can see >(via ethereal) that the phone REGISTER's successfully

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