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Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Edwin Rhodes wrote: > > >> Hello I am not sure if you are the right person, I am interested in making >> my own asterix server please advise, thanks ed. >> > > Edwin, > > I'm guessing this is aimed at me, so I've started a new thread for this to > separate it from the existing ones. Always a good thing to do with a new > subject - i.e. start a new email rather than reply. > > (Although there are others there who use asterisk too - Dave Walker's also > a guru ;-) > > Disclaimer: I build and sell asterisk boxes and provide ITSP services. > > You need something to run it on - and remember that you might need/want to > run it 24/7 to pickup voicemail, etc. when you're not about. > > You also need some phones, although you can use soft-phones on a PC > (Asterisk itself has a soft-phone built in, but I don't recommend using it) > > And something to connect to to make/take calls - A PSTN card to use your > BT connections, or a SIP (or IAX) connection to an ITSP of some sorts. > > Then there's the asterisk itself - many Linux distributions come with a > bundled version, but personally I favour compiling it from scratch myself. > > Asterisk itself comes in 3 basic versions - the 1.2 version, 1.4 and 1.6, > and to further complicate matters, the 1.6 is currently split into 2 > branches. 1.2 is considered obsolete, but there are literally thousands > upon thousands of 1.2 installations out there. My own systems are based on > 1.2, but I'm working on 1.4. I consider 1.6 too buggy for production use, > and even 1.4 has bugs that 1.2 doesn't have, but right now it has features > I want that 1.2 doesn't have, so I'm migrating to it. > > I'd suggest going for 1.4 if compiling from scratch. > > Another way might be to dedicate an old PC and use one of the pre-canned > packages. pbxinaflash, trixbox or astlinux - there are others. These are > basically whole Linux distributions (centOs I think) which come with a pre > built asterisk, web front-end, etc. > > I looked at these, then started from scratch. > > If you want to play on your workstation, then get the sources for the > latest version of 1.4 and compile it up yourself. Use the default settings > and off you go. You won't need anything else at this stage. > > The tricky part isn't compiling and installing, it's editing the dozens of > config files and the magical thing that controls it all; The Dialplan. > (Also known as extensions.conf) > > The dialplan is actually a programming language. You write programs in it > which are executed by various triggers - usually by a phone dialling a > number which matches something in the dialplan. > > What I suggest you do now though is go and get a book - it's free and in > PDF format. It's Asterisk: The Future of Telephony. > > Google around for it, but try: > > http://www.asterisk-voip.nl/wiki/images/7/7b/AsteriskTFOT.zip > > The book is quite old now and will talk about Zap or Zaptel devices. These > are 1.2 specific stuff - for a pure SIP/VoIP system you don't need any of > it, and Zap has been renamed DAHDI in the latest version of asterisk too. > > Enjoy! > > Gordon > > Well put, however I can recommend the use of either AsteriskNOW or FreePBX, the latter being the GUI that a number of PBXs are using. Personally I use Debian Lenny with FreePBX ontop.. I even wrote a script to deploy the whole thing if you're interested..! TTFN Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html