Basic Asterisk conferencing

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:13 pm

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

Post by **Patrick** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:10 am

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

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:53 am

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.

riddlebox · Post by **riddlebox** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:10 pm

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

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 3:19 am

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?

allix · Post by **allix** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 6:35 am

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