Re: [asterisk-users] Discussion: Are we ready to leave 1.4 behind?

2011-04-27 Thread Kevin Keane
We have a discussion on asterisk-dev about the maintenance of the 1.4 branch. According to the release plans, support for 1.4 was scheduled to close in April 2011 - basically now. After that, only security patches would be committed. This is already a delay from the original plan published

Re: [asterisk-users] wrong time retrieved from system command

2011-03-23 Thread Kevin Keane
Tilghman, Could you remove your Reply-By header, please? Your deadline is two months in the past (and in any case, list postings really shouldn't have a reply deadline at all) Here is your Reply-By header from your March 21 email: Reply-By: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:20:00 -0600 Thanks!

Re: [asterisk-users] Two asterisk servers, two different service providers

2010-12-16 Thread Kevin Keane
Here is how I would do it: First, come up with a numbering scheme. For instance, all extensions in location 1 are 1xxx, extensions in location 2 are 2xxx. External calls are 9xxx-xxx- In Location 1: Sip Trunk 1 - goes to Location 2. The dial plan uses it as outgoing trunk for all calls

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk on smartphone?

2010-11-29 Thread Kevin Keane
Do you mean, using the smart phone as an Asterisk server, or as a device (i.e., an extension)? I think running Asterisk in server mode would run up against blocking of SIP traffic on most voice networks. Also, you would probably run into issues with battery life, and with availability (what if

Re: [asterisk-users] Someone has hacked into our system

2010-11-22 Thread Kevin Keane
Use IPTables to lock down your machine to only accept incoming connections from your local network and from the particular IPs that you are expecting connections from (such as your SIP trunk, maybe). That is of course assuming that these calls are made by SIP. Don't forget to also change all

Re: [asterisk-users] Door Contacts via Asterisk?

2010-11-15 Thread Kevin Keane
Basically, any door control system that works with DTMF tones should work - in theory. You will probably need to play around with the length of the DTMF tones, and maybe also with the level. From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On

Re: [asterisk-users] Integrating With Asterisk

2010-11-08 Thread Kevin Keane
There are many ways to do this, and very little information to go on. For instance, if you have Exchange 2007 and a lot of money, you can integrate it with Asterisk using Exchange UM (Unified Messaging). Microsoft charges extra for the premium CALs you need to actually do that. There are also

Re: [asterisk-users] SIP client floods port 5060 and gets blocked

2010-10-28 Thread Kevin Keane
I assume that you checked and the remote IP is a legitimate IP phone? If not, it could be an attempt to break into your system. If it is a legitimate IP phone, make sure that the SIP configuration is correct - if the SIP authentication fails, you can see this happening. From:

Re: [asterisk-users] Audio problems on cable modem link

2010-10-16 Thread Kevin Keane
I've had to rip out VoIP in two cable-modem situations because the call quality was too poor. Bandwidth isn't the main characteristic you are looking for; most Internet connections have plenty of that. Latency and jitter matter far more. Latency describes how long each packet travels from your

Re: [asterisk-users] Moving from DSL to T1

2010-09-13 Thread Kevin Keane
DSL to T1 On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 15:32 -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: In terms of telephony, a T-1 can make a huge difference over DSL. DSL gives you a lot of raw bandwidth, true, but for voice that really doesn't matter all that much. Voice calls only take a relatively small amount of bandwidth

Re: [asterisk-users] Moving from DSL to T1

2010-09-13 Thread Kevin Keane
-13 at 00:32 -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: Latency also is the reason VoIP does not work at all over satellite connections even though they tend to have plenty of bandwidth. Please define does not work at all over satellite ??? Sure, it is not studio HIFI quality, but is th same quality as you

Re: [asterisk-users] Moving from DSL to T1

2010-09-12 Thread Kevin Keane
In terms of telephony, a T-1 can make a huge difference over DSL. DSL gives you a lot of raw bandwidth, true, but for voice that really doesn't matter all that much. Voice calls only take a relatively small amount of bandwidth anyway; you can fit dozens of concurrent calls into a DSL or T-1.

Re: [asterisk-users] Moving from DSL to T1

2010-09-12 Thread Kevin Keane
to T1 On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Kevin Keane wrote: What really matters is the latency, and T-1 is a huge improvement over DSL in that area. The easiest way to measure latency is the ping time to a server that is “close to you” Internet-wise. A DSL has latencies of between 40ms (if it’s

Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk on Vmware

2010-08-11 Thread Kevin Keane
Are you talking about VMware Server, ESX/ESXi, or one of their other products? The only VMWare product that I can even conceive might work is ESX/ESXi. Others have already pointed out that in VMware, you won't get direct access to the hardware. VMWare does have some limited capability to

Re: [asterisk-users] Monitor asterisk

2010-08-08 Thread Kevin Keane
Do you have a Nagios server? Then you could use that to monitor various aspects of Asterisk. From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Richard Zulu Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 11:28 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List -

Re: [asterisk-users] Using Vertical IP2007 phones with Asterisk?

2010-07-26 Thread Kevin Keane
From: John Novack [mailto:jnov...@stromberg-carlson.org] Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 3:31 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Cc: Kevin Keane Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Using Vertical IP2007 phones with Asterisk? Kevin Keane wrote: I recently inherited a Vertical

Re: [asterisk-users] Fail2ban - SuSEfirewall

2010-07-26 Thread Kevin Keane
-Original Message- From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of John Novack Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 12:20 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Fail2ban -

[asterisk-users] Cisco 7960 phone can't leave a queue

2010-07-25 Thread Kevin Keane
I recently inherited an Asterisk system (PBX in a Flash, based on Asterisk 1.4 and FreePBX). The phones are mostly Cisco 7960 phones with the SIP firmware. The Asterisk setup relies heavily on queues with dynamic agents. The problem I am having is that on SOME (but not all) the Cisco phones,

Re: [asterisk-users] Cisco 7960 phone can't leave a queue

2010-07-25 Thread Kevin Keane
leave a queue Check your dialplan.xml file that the affected phones are loading. Thanks, --Warren Selby On Jul 25, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Kevin Keane subscript...@kkeane.com wrote: I recently inherited an Asterisk system (PBX in a Flash, based on Asterisk 1.4 and FreePBX). The phones are mostly

Re: [asterisk-users] Cisco 7960 phone can't leave a queue

2010-07-25 Thread Kevin Keane
the same tftp address? Thanks, --Warren Selby On Jul 25, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Kevin Keane subscript...@kkeane.com wrote: Stupid question (sorry, I'm pretty much an Asterisk beginner) - where do I find the dialplan.xml? As far as I can tell, there is no TFTP server in this network. I found

[asterisk-users] Using Vertical IP2007 phones with Asterisk?

2010-07-25 Thread Kevin Keane
I recently inherited a Vertical Xcelerator IP system with IP2007 phones. I would like to use the phones with an Asterisk system instead, but there doesn't seem to be much information on it on Google. Is it even possible? These phones claim that they are SIP phones. Thanks! Kevin --

Re: [asterisk-users] Cisco 7960 phone can't leave a queue

2010-07-25 Thread Kevin Keane
, Jul 25, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Kevin Keane subscript...@kkeane.commailto:subscript...@kkeane.com wrote: I recently inherited an Asterisk system (PBX in a Flash, based on Asterisk 1.4 and FreePBX). The phones are mostly Cisco 7960 phones with the SIP firmware. The Asterisk setup relies heavily on queues