[asterisk-users] New Versions of Asterisk, Asterisk-addons, Zaptel, and DAHDI

[Steve Repo]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Tony Mountifield
<tony at softins.clara.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <8964E251-A6F8-4878-B9E2-AEAF1F914601 at digium.com>,
> Russell Bryant <russell at digium.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 3, 2008, at 8:32 PM, sean darcy wrote:
>>
>> > Great.
>> >
>> > But I'm still a little confused.
>> >
>> > Does zaptel 1.4.12 work with asterisk-1.6.0-rc4?
>>
>> No.  Asterisk 1.6.0 now _only_ supports DAHDI.
>>
>> > It looks like we first upgrade to zaptel 1.4.12, and then to dahdi. We
>> > can go back to this release of zaptel if we have problems with dahdi.
>> >
>> > Or if we go back to zaptel, do we go back to 1.6.0-beta9 also?
>>
>> You can upgrade directly to DAHDI.  However, if you have trouble with
>> DAHDI and need to go back to Zaptel, then I would go back to Asterisk
>> 1.4 instead of using an old beta of 1.6.0.  Many things have been
>> fixed since 1.6.0-beta9.
>
> If I'm installing a new system based on the latest Asterisk 1.4, should
> I use zaptel or dahdi with it? Which version?
>

AFAIK, Zaptel is no longer supported. I'd recommend dahdi if it's a new setup.

Steve