[Cialug] Asterisk

[Richard Harms]

I've been using Asterisk for several months now at home. Usually 
running a version no more than a month or so old from CVS. Machine is 
running Fedora Core 2, with the 2.6.6 kernel (custom built, not the 
Fedora one). Unfortunately, it tends to need rebooted ever 3-4 weeks (I 
don't blame asterisk too much, given I'm usually running a bleeding 
edge version). The machine has a TDM400P card in it from Digium. It 
handles one incoming line, and three internal extensions (one for fax 
machine, plus two with plain old phones on them). Asterisk is setup as 
an auto-attendant, requiring people to dial an extension, or '0' to 
ring all phones. It auto detects incoming faxes, and transfers them to 
the fax machine (although now there is the ability to deal with sending 
and receiving faxes in software - haven't tried that yet). Only VOIP 
I'm doing with it is an IAX connected extension I have at my office, 
going through a VPN between a couple SmoothWall machines, and an IAXTEL 
number I registered.

All in all, I'd recommend Asterisk very highly, I like it a lot better 
than the 3com NBX system I use at the office.

-rh

On Nov 3, 2004, at 3:41 PM, Nathan C. Smith wrote:

>
> How many people on the list are using/experimenting with Asterisk
> (http://www.asterisk.org)?  I know Dave W. is familiar with it, anybody
> else?
>
> I'm trying to get a system going at home and I wonder if anyone else 
> "around
> here" has already done it.
>
> -Nate
>
> Nathan Smith  McKee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C.  515.288.3667
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