[Asterisk-Dev] [REPOST] [Asterisk-Users] ZapRAS docs needed...

[Steven Critchfield]

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 04:55, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> Is there any information available about ZapRAS other than the fscking
> source?

Since I just went through the effort of getting it running, I'll post my
experience.

You need to get PPP together with zaptel support. 
 ftp://ftp.digium.com/pub/zaptel/misc/
You will need the tarball and both patches listed.
You need to apply the PPPOE patch then the zaptel patch.
It seems you need to have pppoe support for your kernel.
At this point you should be able to compile and install the pppd daemon.

Once you have this new pppd compiled, and you have the ppp support in
your kernel, you are ready for the configuring of the extensions.conf
file. Here is the entry I used to get started with.

exten => 9022,1,ZapRas(debug|64000|noauth|netmask|255.255.255.0|192.168.10.1:192.168.10.2)

ZapRas requires you to split the pppd arguments so it is easy to pass
them to exec. The line above will log problems to syslog, and
importantly, defines the IP addresses to be used on each side. You will
want to figure out what pppd flags will work best for your installation.

The above line was used as a proof of concept to prove that I could get
packets flowing. I too still have to change these flags for the final
production environment. We connected using an Ascend Pipeline 75, and
were able to pass traffic(ping) between the pipeline and the gateway
machine.

According to the docs of pppd, we should be able to do bonding, but I
didn't try and get that working with the 75 yet. It may just require
that I turn the 64000 to 128000, but I don't know yet. 


> On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 12:52, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > hi all
> > 
> > Where can I find documentation about how to setup ZapRAS?
> > 
> > What I want to do (optimally) is to allow for automatic dial-up to
> > external sites, each having an ISDN router. Today we use a small ISDN
> > router for this, but it'd be a lot better, IMHO, to have asterisk do
> > this (functioning as a ISDN router), as we may cancel our BRIs then.
> > 
> > Is this possible? And if so, how can I do it? I can't find any docs
> > about ZapRAS at all!
> > 
> > roy
> > 
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Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>