[asterisk-dev] BRI support in chan_zap of asterisk 1.6?

[Matthew Fredrickson]

Klaus Darilion wrote:
> 
> Matthew Fredrickson schrieb:
>> Klaus Darilion wrote:
>>> Matthew Fredrickson schrieb:
>>>> Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
>>>>> Klaus Darilion wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I just saw some SIG_BRI... definitions in chan_zap.c of 1.6. Ist it now 
>>>>>> possible to use BRI cards without patching with bristuff?
>>>>> Not quite yet... but soon it should be possible, yes.
>>>>>
>>>> Actually...
>>>>
>>>> It'll probably work.  I have tested making basic phone calls, etc over 
>>>> it, although I'm still tweaking it and making sure that the Q.921 layer 
>>>> is more likely to pass testing.  Of course, YMMV.  I certainly don't 
>>>> mind testers though trying it out and reporting issues that they find 
>>>> with it.  That would help me out a lot.  You'll have to update your 
>>>> libpri to trunk for it to work though.  That's where all the BRI 
>>>> development is happening.  And NT-PTMP is not going to work, only NT/TE 
>>>> PTP and TE PTMP.
>>> Cool. Which cards are supported? I guess there will be new zaptel 
>>> modules too for BRI cards - e.g. there is zap_hfc in bristuff for the 
>>> HFC cards.
>> BRI Cards with Zaptel interfaces.  You can use the bristuff Zaptel 
>> drivers to test.
> 
> Ok. Will there be zaptel bri drivers from digium as well (e.g. for the 
> digium BRI card)? If not, why was this featured added at all if I still 
> need zaphfc/... from bristuff?

I would presume at some point in the future there will be "official" 
Zaptel BRI drivers added.  Right now I'm working on the protocol stack 
portion of it though.

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Matthew Fredrickson
Software/Firmware Engineer
Digium, Inc.