[Asterisk-bsd] Zaptel BSD 4.10 regarding

[Rich Murphey]

Krzysztof Drewicz wrote:
> Knight Tiger napisał(a):
>> Hi,
>>         I am new to Asterisk and FreeBSD and I have a FreeBSD box to
>> try out Asterisk and it is running FreeBSD  v 4.10.
> 
> FreeBSD v.4.10 could be named as obsolete today.


There continue to be many valid reasons that some may
have for using 4.x.  So although it may be considered
obsolete to some, this is by no means universally true.

Such reasons may include lower resource
usage appropriate for embedded systems, and better
uniprocessor performance for certain tasks.

It might be more accurate to say that 4.x is not
supported, or supported in very limited ways.
Nevertheless, there are many vendors and service
providers that continue to base products upon it.



> The 5.5 version is being known as legalcy.
> Nowadays you should use 6.2, or wait for 7.0
> 
>> I understand that
>> Zaptel is a driver for cards that enables you to call PSTN phones. 
> Yeap, very specific cards, ie.see http://www.zapatatelephony.org/ for 
> some history, or 
> http://www.digium.com/en/products/hardware/digitalcards.php for some new 
> stuff.
> You should say what kind of connection you have from you telephone 
> company analog (plain coper lines) or digital (T1/E1).
> 
> While reading this page you could see that ISA zapata-based cards could 
> work with older bsd-releases, but this is a history (like linux 2.2.x).
>> I
>> would like to know if I need to have Asterisk to use Zaptel ?
> No, you don't have to. But this is rather asterisk-specific list.
> 
> 
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