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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=758413523-09082003>Asterisk does not included a gatekeeper but you can
download a one from <A
href="http://www.openh323.org">http://www.openh323.org</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=758413523-09082003>As for
whether or not you NEED gatekeeper, probably not. If you have a gatekeeper
you can register your h323 endpoints (openphone) with the gatekeeper, then have
asterisk register with the gatekeeper. Only the phone numbers with the
prefix specified in h323.conf would get routed from the gatekeeper to asterisk,
otherwise the gatekeeper would handle all of the routing, but asterisk can do
all of that.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=758413523-09082003>If I
were in a relatively small office (where a map of phone numbers to ip
addresses are easy to keep track of) I probably wouldn't bother with a
gatekeeper.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sean Langley, P.Eng</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Firmware Engineer</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>General Dynamics
Canada</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>(403)730-1482</FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Arial size=2>sean.langley@gdcanada.com</FONT> </P>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Wayne Methorst
[mailto:wayne.methorst@monitor.co.nz]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, August 09,
2003 5:29 PM<BR><B>To:</B> asterisk-users@lists.digium.com<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[Asterisk-Users] Gatekeeper<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am a newbie to Asterisk. We have set up
Asterisk on a PC with Redhat 9.0. We have installed H323 openphone on our
PC's. We are wondering what a gatekeeper does. It seems we need one but what I
have seen in this group is that a gatekeeper must be installed on another
box on the network. As all our PC's on the network use Microsoft OS is there a
free gatekeeper software for microsoft operating system?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does Asterisk have a built in gatekeeper?
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Many thanks</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wayne</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>