[Asterisk-Users] Getting netmeeting to work with Asterisk

[Jeremy McNamara]

Simon J Mudd wrote:

>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".
>  
>
chan_h323 is the only H.323 channel driver that is distributed with 
Asterisk. There is a third party H.323 driver that some ppl allegedly 
have gotten to work, but the main reason why I wrote chan_h323 was 
because of the many many many many (lets call them) issues with that 
other driver.

>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 don't know what instructions your looking at, but if you 
would have followed the README in asterisk/channels/h323 you wouldn't 
have had to copy the lib files over. Now you have to remember to move 
them into that same directory if you ever update Open H.323 and/or PWlib. 

RTFM

>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?
>
>
>  
>
You can build the dialplan however you want.   Since you do not have a 
context keyword in the general section you will need to have user 
entries for every H.323 ID you want to use on your system.  Now, if you 
had a context in the general section it would send any non-matching 
users to whatever context you specified.

Also it is worth stating that chan_h323 doesn't have a definition of a 
'peer', so a friend here really only means user. (thus outgoinglimit 
does nothing)

I did submit documentation for chan_h323 but it seems it has not made it 
into the Asterisk handbook, yet.


Jeremy McNamara