[asterisk-users] Asterisk as a skinny/sccp "client"?

[Michiel van Baak]

On 13:33, Wed 17 Mar 10, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 10:56 -0500, Jason Parker wrote: 
> > 
> > No, this isn't currently possible.
> 
> Damn.
> 
> > I did ponder this for a while, but my 
> > conclusion was that the effort required to do so would far outweigh any benefit 
> > you'd gain from it.
> 
> How about having something -- anything on Linux, able to connect to a
> Cisco PBX using Skinny, where one has no other options?
> 
> > Cisco has been moving to SIP for a very long time.  There aren't any phone 
> > features that Asterisk could emulate that would make this any better than SIP 
> > (or even anything approaching parity).
> 
> Perhaps not, but there are still installations where all they are using
> is Skinny and nothing else.
> 
> You don't need to tell me about the pros/cons of this as I have no
> control over what "they" are doing.  I am just a consumer of it.
> 
> Unfortunately, I think Asterisk and skinny is about as close as anything
> is on Linux to utilizing SCCP.  :-(

At the moment the primary focus for chan_skinny is to make it a better
server for the phones.
Like Jason said, it would take a great ammount of time and effort to
implement 'client side' code. And as most of the ppl involved in
chan_skinny mostly care about fixing stuff so their phones work
correctly this would be near to impossible with the current setup.

Of course we are open for patches, and we're accepting them as well as
licenses for callserver to test them.

Like Jason I've been looking into this, but lack of resources and lack
of interrest and lack of usage I stopped looking at it and linked my
asterisk to callserver using SIP.

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