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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>It seems to me
that there a lot of "it ought to work or could be made<BR>to to work" associated
with implementing US BRI into Asterisk</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I agree. I have a BRI in service and have
offered a couple of times to do tests. I have an HFC card here that I
intend to use with it myself, and plan to test that as soon as I can. I
have gotten relatively little information and have been reluctant to
proceed. However if dahdi now supports it and I can figure out how, I'll
dive in as soon as I get a chance. That exercise should help get me up to
speed a bit. At that point if anyone ones to send me a card of a different
kind, possibly a loaner from a manufacturer, I'm willing to plug it in and try
an appropriate configuration for it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am running a production server and BRI, and it
also serves web pages and will soon do E-Mail, so I need to maintain fairly good
up time. OTOH, it is a small home office setting, so I don't mind being
down long enough to put a card in the box and test it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It would appear to me that validating the higher
level functionality and figuring out the necessary settings is at least half the
battle. Once that is done, I would expect driver level issues to be more
straightforward. I am wondering if there is even one site in the US using
NT1 BRI at present. If there was, a set of config files might be helpful,
even if they were doing it a bit differently, such as with BRIStuff. For
this testing it would seem that a dahdi based approach is the clear way to
go.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wilton</FONT></DIV>
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