[asterisk-users] USA BRI -- any hope at all?

[Eric Fort]

On 1/27/09, Steve Totaro <stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com>
> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 03:45:34PM -0500, Steve Totaro wrote:
>>
>>> Get a hold of Marcin Pyco (Former Digium Employee and extrememly smart
>>> guy.
>>>
>>> He has code/patches for zaptel to US BRIs work that include SPID as a
>>> variable in zap confs.
>>
>> Could you please expand on that point?
>>
>> Why should such patches remain secret?
>>
>> And are those patches really necessary now that chan_dahdi knows that
>> there is such a thing called BRI?
>>
>> --
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>
> BRISTUFF never worked properly with US BRI.  Chan_dahdi MIGHT work but
> I see a steady stream of Dahdi compaints, segfaults, not seeing
> things.  Sound like Alpha code to me.
>
> I will not be installing anything called DHADI on a production system
> for another year at least.  Besides that, can you specify in
> dahdi.conf or whatever what the SPIDS are?
>
> Does it give you an option for US vs other BRI?  If not, it won't work
> reliably.
>
> If you don't mind missing inbound calls at random intervals, then it
> should work fine.
>
> From what I understand it Marcin's code works on all card's that
> BRIStuff would work on, but does not because US BRI is a bit different
> than other BRI around the world.
>
> About keeping secrets, which he doesn't, he has said that he had these
> patches for a long time now.  At any rate, it is his code to whatever
> he wants.  If he wants to charge for it, do consulting, or keep it a
> secret, it is not your business nor do you have any say what he wants
> to do with "his" code.
>
> I think you just want your hands on the code since you work for a
> competitor but I may be wrong....
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Steve Totaro
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