[Asterisk-Users] Skinny

[Jeremy McNamara]

Dan Austin wrote:

>Cool.  I know for a fact my lab setup has it commented out, so
>with a small tweak I'll be doing real testing.
>
>IANAL, but SmartNET likely won't cover the skinny license.  Even
>with Call Manager you have to buy a license for every phone you
>deploy.  The license varies from model to model, but typically costs
>as much as the cheaper SIP phones that are now available.
>  
>
Yep, I agree completely.

>Lastly, what would be the best way to provide feedback on the channel?
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http://bugs.digium.com/ 





>Thanks,
>Dan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeremy McNamara [mailto:jj at nufone.net]
>Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 7:49 PM
>To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
>Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Skinny
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>At the present time you have to have a VALID ip address in bindaddr for 
>Skinny to work.  If bindaddr is either 0.0.0.0 or simply commented out 
>all packets requiring the IP address contain 127.0.0.1.  I forgot their 
>nick, but someone in IRC recommended we make Asterisk be smart enough 
>not to pick that interface, but I'm not sure of that is the problem or 
>not.  I simply have not had the time to investigate it whatsoever.
>
>Also, I have been advised against providing specific material resources 
>to make Skinny work with Asterisk, especially the binary firmware 
>images. So, your on your own for the firmware.   I recommend a CCM v3.1 
>or higher as Cisco was nice enough to give us an XML based config file.  
>Someone needs to do some research to see if having a SmartNet on the 
>phone would be sufficient enough to be able to LEGALLY use the Skinny 
>firmware.
>
>And, yes I do have my 7910 working with Asterisk. Which, btw, was 
>graciously donated by a generous Asterisk user (he knows who he is), 
>....Granted only with ulaw and none of the soft buttons actually do 
>anything, but I can and do make calls with it all day long. Hopefully in 
>the next week or two I can find some time to spend on fixing all of the 
>various annoying issues with chan_skinny or please feel free to 
>contribute disclaimed patches.
>
>
>Jeremy McNamara
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