[Asterisk-Users] is gatekeeper required?

[Roger Schreiter]

ml_asterisk-users at rajnoch.sk schrieb:
> ...
> My question is how can I do outgoing calls?
> Need I call firstly IP of asterisk and then to enter phone # to PSTN?
> respectively, how can voip phone knows to which IP to connect?
> Is this problem solved by gatekeeper? need I one.
> ...


Hi,

this depends on your H323 phones.
The more expensive ones (snom, innovaphone, ...) have direct
mode, gateway mode and gatekeeper mode.

Use the gateway mode, setup your gateway in the H323 phones,
and you won't need a gatekeeper.

Some cheap phones, like those from Planet, don't have the gateway
mode. In such case you'll need a gatekeeper (or you would have
to add @<gateway-address> at each number, you want to dial).

The Topway phones, which PLANinterNET is selling is a cheap H323 phone
with gateway support.


Roger.