[asterisk-dev] Bristuff ZapBRI in the US [was: Re: BRI support in chan_zap of asterisk 1.6?]

[Oron Peled]

On Thursday, 6 בMarch 2008, Steve Totaro wrote:
> Tzafrir,
> Thanks for that reply.
> 
> I do consulting work (my paycheck) so I usually do not give out
> complete answers,...

Boy, you got the nerve. Now it's clear where people like
us (consultants) get such a bad reputation :-(

> ... or send me an email where I try to negotiate some
> form of compensation for giving them a working solution.
> ...
> We come from two different paradigms, I hope you understand.

Different paradigm indeed. You didn't had to negotiate some
compensation with Tzafrir to get is help -- did you?

> Anyways, your posting was perfect as far as I am concerned.

Your's too, thanks for being candid and share this attitude
with us.

[Some more tea, to calm down a bit...]

1. Good tech-people are always in shortage, and companies pays
   to get them (jobs or consultants).

2. In free software world you get *more* opportunities for payed
   jobs/projects by sharing knowledge not by hiding it.
   [and yes I am talking from personal experience]

> Thanks,
> Steve Totaro

Hope you'll get this "free-software-thing" Steve, it looks like
you're a good (but misguided) chap.

[all others, sorry for the OT]

> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> 
wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:17:18PM -0500, Steve Totaro wrote:
> >
> >  > With some very generous help from Tzafrir, I was able to get a quad
> >  > port Junghanns card working with a quad port Sangoma FXO card in the
> >  > same server with US BRIs.
> >
> >  As Steve mentioned this, I thought I'll give some relevant technical
> >  details.
> >
> >  The system uses Sangoma 4FXO and a Junghanns quad BRI card. It used a
> >  fairly recent version of Zaptel and of the Sangoma drivers. The work
> >  there was doen by Steve, and I merely provided some advices at some
> >  points.
> >
> >  The configuration that worked (as I remember it. Configuration of the
> >  FXO channels left out for clarity)
> >
> >  On zaptel.conf:
> >
> >  # Configure BRI spans as CCS/AMI . Same as in europe.
> >  # Value of LBO used there was different , actually.
> >  span=1,1,0,ccs,ami
> >  span=2,2,0,ccs,ami
> >  span=3,3,0,ccs,ami
> >  span=4,4,0,ccs,ami
> >
> >  # The configuration of the channels:
> >  # Basically the same, but ulaw seems to be used rather than the driver
> >  # of alaw seems to be used there:
> >  bchan=1-2
> >  dchan=3
> >  mulaw=1-2
> >
> >  bchan=4-5
> >  dchan=6
> >  mulaw=4-5
> >
> >  bchan=7-8
> >  dchan=9
> >  mulaw=7-8
> >
> >  bchan=10-11
> >  dchan=12
> >  mulaw=10-11
> >
> >
> >  /etc/asterisk/zapata.conf:
> >
> >  [channels]
> >  ; As you would have expected: BRI, PtP, and National switch-type:
> >  switchtype = national
> >  signalling = bri_cpe
> >
> >  ; I think this was used. Not sure:
> >  pridialplan = unknown
> >  channel => 1-2,4-5,7-8,10-11
> >
> >  --
> >                Tzafrir Cohen
> >  icq#16849755              jabber:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
> >  +972-50-7952406           mailto:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
> >  http://www.xorcom.com  iax:guest at local.xorcom.com/tzafrir
> >
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