[asterisk-users] soft ATA on linux with zaptel?

[Steve Totaro]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Steve Totaro
<stotaro at first-notification.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:02:01 -0500, Steve Totaro wrote:
>>>
>>> Why not just get a softphone and use a USB soundcard or even the onboard
>>> sound card as your ATA?  Like a MagicJack and SJphone or Xlite or
>>> whatever it is that works with it.
>>
>> Please forgive my ignorance but I am not following you.
>>
>> My problem is this... I have a copper POTS line coming into the house and
>> I have an Asterisk server which is incapable of accepting a PCI zap card
>> as it has no PCI slots.
>>
>> I do have a PCI zap card though and I have a Linux machine I could put
>> that in to.
>>
>> So now how do I use a USB soundcard and softphone to bridge the copper
>> POTS line to the Asterisk server given that I only have an IP connection
>> between the Asterisk server and the machine that has the zap card in it?
>>
>> b.
>>
>
>
> ATA is the wrong term then, you were unclear in your original
> question.  You want an FXO device.  An ATA is an "Analog TERMINAL
> Adaptor, not an FXO port.
>
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-ATA
>
> Not sure why you wouldn't run Asterisk on the linux box that has PCI
> slots.....  Anyways, I guess you could run FreeSwitch or some other
> software that supports Zaptel/Dahdi devices.  You could set up TDMoE
> if you are really feeling froggy.
>

BTW, Asterisk is lightweight enough to run on a Linksys SoHo router.
The WRT54G and other linux based hardware/firmware.  It isn't the
beast you make it out to be.

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