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OK, since I should be getting faster upload speed really soon, I want to set up an Asterisk box so that I can get of this proprietary crud called Skype.
What I need is Skype-like computer to computer call functionality in Asterisk. I want to be able to connect to my Asterisk box over my LAN and go into a conference, then tell a person to go download a SIP or IAX (Which one is better for computer-computer calls?) client, connect to my Asterisk box over the internet and join the conference, and then I and that person can talk.

This may seem a lot more complicated than just using Skype, but I'm willing to deal with that additional complexity in the return of getting rid of a proprietary program, plus then I can always expand it to standard phone-line calling in the future, should I need it.

I'm completely new to Asterisk and litterally have no idea how to get this thing going, so I need some help on this.

Just for completeness, I'm gonna run this thing on OpenBSD

Specialized Linux based distros:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_As ... tributions

Info sites and How-to's:
http://www.asteriskguru.com/
http://www.automated.it/guidetoasterisk.htm
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Asterisk
http://www.jeremy-mcnamara.com/index.ph ... tallation/

Not sure about installing it on BFD. Sorry

Patrick wrote:Not sure about installing it on BFD. Sorry

Oh it's easy to install: pkg_add -v asterisk
I just need to know a little about how to configure the thing. Thanks for the links, gonna see what I can figure out.

I have this setup on my system, it takes 2 seconds, before you compile asterisk though or install it in anyway, you must install the zaptel driver first! The conferencing uses a timing device and you need the module ztdummy to be installed first so asterisk will compile itself with support for ztdummy. Msg me if you have any questions

Riddlebox

riddlebox wrote:I have this setup on my system, it takes 2 seconds, before you compile asterisk though or install it in anyway, you must install the zaptel driver first! The conferencing uses a timing device and you need the module ztdummy to be installed first so asterisk will compile itself with support for ztdummy.

FreeBSD did that for me, I decided to put Asterisk on my FreeBSD box, so that I have five servers in total consolidated onto one box, and when I did "make intall clean", it did want the kernel sources, and it installed zaptel and a bunch of stuff. So it should all be good.
This ztdummy module you mention, is this a kernel module?

riddlebox wrote:Msg me if you have any questions

Now how do I make this bitch start working?

Me and riddlebox were talking about the possibility of bridging two asterisk servers.
What do you think Tsuroerusu?

Its like server load balancing, it will be great