[asterisk-users] Asterisk with Nextone using H323

[Chris Ziomkowski]

The meaning of  "softswitch" in the Nextone is that it will try and use 
whatever protocol the corresponding Ingress/Egress side is set for. That 
means, if you place/receive a call from/to Asterisk, and route to an 
endpoint doing SIP, the Nextone will expect Asterisk to speak SIP. If 
you place/receive a call to/from an endpoint using H.323, it will expect 
Asterisk to speak H.323.

When you use "softswitch", the Nextone is much more forgiving about what 
it passes through also, expecting that your softswitch on the far side 
will take care of the issues.

If you only want to use H.323 with Asterisk, you should configure it as 
an H.323 gateway. Why are you trying to set "softswitch"?

That is how all of our systems are configured with Asterisk and ooh323. 
Works very well and very stable.

Chris

Everton Goularth wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> Someone have already used asterisk with Nextone?
> I`m trying to use it, but there are some problems.. One of these are 
> when we set up a connection between Nextone and Asterisk using H323, we 
> use our asterisk server as a Softswitch in the Nextone configuration, so 
> it doesn`t work. But, when we just change (in Nextone configuration) 
> from Softswitch to Gateway, it work. Where is the difference?
> I`m using chan_ooh323 in my asterisk server. This is my ooh323.conf:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [general]
> ;Default - 1720
> ;port=1720
> bindaddr= IP_ADDRESS
>
> ;This parameter indicates whether channel driver should register with
> ;gatekeeper as a gateway or an endpoint.
> ;Default - no
> ;gateway=yes
>
> ;Whether asterisk should use fast-start and tunneling for H323 connections.
> ;Default - yes
> ;faststart=no
> ;h245tunneling=no
>
> ;H323-ID to be used for asterisk server
> ;Default - Asterisk PBX
> h323id=GW2
> e164=1521#
>
> ;CallerID to use for calls
> ;Default - Same as h323id
> callerid=MediaXChange 1.0
>
> ;Whether this asterisk server will use gatekeeper.
> ;Default - DISABLE
> ;gatekeeper = DISCOVER
> ;gatekeeper = a.b.c.d
> ;gatekeeper =  189.44.163.125
>
> logfile=/var/log/asterisk/h323_log
> context=default
> disallow=all
> allow=g729
> allow=g723
> dtmfmode=rfc2833
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Anyone know what can I do? or what am I doing wrong???
> Thank`s a lot for the opportunity.
> Everton Goularth
>
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