[Asterisk-Users] Getting netmeeting to work with Asterisk

[Simon J Mudd]

Hi Dan,    [and thanks for bearing with me]

I'm going to top post partly as I may be making a mistake in my
assumptions.  I've been mentioning using NM with h323 and editing the
/etc/asterisk/h323.conf and you mention oh323.  Perhaps I've been
doing the wrong thing or am trying to configure the wrong "module".

I specifically compiled from asterisk/channels/h323 and followed the
instructions there copying over chan_h323.so and the required pwlib
and h323 lib files to /usr/lib. The make install copies over h323.conf
to /etc/asterisk (not oh323.conf).

I've modified extension.conf and it now allows me to make a call from
the Asterisk console to NM

[h323]
exten => 2005,1,Dial(h323/192.168.0.2)

While I only have a speaker connected to the Asterisk PC speaking from
a headset on the NM PC produces audio on Asterisk's speaker.  So thanks.

On the console I see:

 [chan_h323.so] => (The NuFone Network's Open H.323 Channel Driver)
  == Creating H.323 Endpoint
  == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/h323.conf': Found
  == Registered channel type 'H323' (The NuFone Network's Open H.323
  Channel Driver)
  == H.323 listener started
  == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/enum.conf': Found
Asterisk Ready.
*CLI> dial 2005
    -- Executing Dial("OSS/dsp", "h323/192.168.0.2") in new stack
    -- Called 192.168.0.2
    -- H323/192.168.0.2 answered OSS/dsp
 << Console call has been answered >>

Now I just need to get the incoming calls to work so that I can dial
in to the "demo" or other extensions with NM and listen to messages
and things.

Currently h323.conf has only:

[general]
port = 1720
bindaddr = 0.0.0.0

[laptop]
type=friend
host=192.168.0.2
context=h323
incominglimit=6
outgoinglimit=4

Should perhaps the context be changed to default to allow incoming
calls to Asterisk from this NM client?

Thanks very much for your patience.

Simon
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Simon J Mudd, Postfix RPM Packager, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
email: sjmudd at pobox.com, Tel: +31-627-592 627, http://postfix.WL0.org