[nflug] Meeting this saturday, June 17 2006, 1:30pm at ITT

[hubbardr at adelphia.net]

I'll try to convince Hatton here at ITT to show up, 'cuz he has become 
the asterisk/asterisk at home guru...of course, they've changed their name 
(trixbox, so it's not for silly rabbits anymore), but I think he can 
still help...
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---- vlok stone <vlokstone at yahoo.com> wrote: 
>   Well, Mark and Dave are also good with Asterisk.
> Dave mentioned one of my pet peeves, each phone or
> docs seems to call the same thing by different names.
> Some phones want you to point to the server and some
> to a proxy. Same thing!! And that's where gets things
> confusing. 
> Trunks= the VoIP providers server ( they like to call
> it trunks because it sound sooo telco-ish, some call
> them routes). Bascially you're pointing to a service
> on a server whether it's sip or iax, like a ssh,vpn or
> anything else.
> Extensions=phones or menus or applications (like
> voicemail) connected to your server (you could point a
> phone directly to the provider)
> 
> When using Ast at home (or TrixBox as they're now known
> as) they like to use Macros, which are like scripts
> and have their own language. This adds a layer of
> complexity that needn't be there, like when some
> distros get too fancy for their own good (I think Mark
> was opining on this recently). 
> 
>  In short, there are only 2 essential files that need
> configuration. Extensions.conf and either sip.conf or
> iax.conf (depending on the phone used). If you're
> looking to setup trixbox I'd suggest going to Nerd
> Vittles. They have tons of Ast at home/TrixBox howto's.
> But you won't ever see what's happening below the ice,
> unless you make a copy of the files a do a diff on
> them.
> 
> I'd be more than happy to help anyone get their
> Asterisk up and running. I plan on coming. So, anyone
> who wants to get Asterisk going bring their box.
> Kernel
> headers/source may be required. 
> 
> 
> --- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> 
> > hubbardr at adelphia.net wrote:
> > > There's no hockey game this Saturday, so i'm sure
> > lot's of people can come to the meeting
> > >
> > > There are a couple of things we may be able to do
> > at ITT, and we may be able to do it this month, or
> > at the latest, next month. 
> > >
> > > We just switched the hard drives in all our
> > computers to SATA.  So far, no big deal, but we have
> > some of the old machines still hanging around. 
> > These machines have removable hd bays, where it is a
> > simple matter to swap hard drives in a machine.  We
> > also have extra drive bays.  What this means, is
> > that either this month or next month, we will be
> > able to pass out the drive bays, and the drive
> > enclosures.  This way, you can set up a linux box at
> > home, and instead of bring in the entire box, just
> > remove the hd, and slip it into one of the machines
> > we have. (linux doesn't seem to have a problem with
> > radical hw changes between boots)
> > >
> > > There is also the matter of what do we want to
> > talk about... I have a couple of ideas, but if
> > someone has something they want to discuss, then we
> > can do that for a topic.
> > >
> > > No word on food.  This may be a little short
> > notice.
> > >
> > > let me know what you want..
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> > >   
> > I would vote for an asterisk meeting. I could bring
> > a box, have asterisk 
> > installed, have an account ready to go, etc.. I
> > can't make heads or 
> > tails of all the different asterisk at home releases
> > and the docs that 
> > aren't relevant to said releases. I know all the
> > configs are under 
> > /etc/asterisk but as far as setting up extensions,
> > trunks! This is when 
> > the WTF's!!!! start to fly.
> >   I know we have done asterisk meetings before but
> > they never really got 
> > off the ground. I would imagine Kevin (vlok stone)
> > to be the most 
> > learned asterisk user on the list but I could be
> > wrong. Would you be 
> > able to make the meeting Kevin?
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