[NBLUG/talk] Linux as router - Bayonne

[Walter Hansen]

Very cool. I will print this out and investigate as I'm able. At one point
we were thinking of paying someone $10,000 to code a system for us.
Bayonne does seem to work and is used in a lot of services, but it's not
exactly user friendly and wasn't very well documented last I looked (a
little along the lines of "look at the code"). It's gotten better over the
years, but my employers take a dim view on having me spend a month
learning how to program in some unknown system, and then having me spend
?? months writing the code to make it all happen.

If asterisk is as you say I could put together a system in perl pretty
much as easily as a new web interface system. Probably a month or less
start to finish (well with my other tasks and such). This might change
some things. I'll have to look into the digium.com cards though. Does
asterisk support dialogic? (ie could I play with the card I have?). I
really must spend an hour on their website reading docs. Oh, our typical
solution is digital robbed bit T1's as I take it, but Dialogic uses the
same drivers for digital/analog so I got us a card for testing that didn't
require a $300/mo connection to test with. Dialogic is the only vendor
that is tied to RH7.3, but I really never minded much as I'm not going to
be doing anything else with these machine(s) anyway. Oh, and there is a
user (from Russia?) that runs Dialogic on RH9, but he's good, real good.
He's got a faq on it as I remember, but I never got that far.

> The high end cards from digium.com which are made for asterisk will span 4
> T1's on a single card.  You can get a card for a single T1 though.  I
> don't
> know if your solution is analog or digital though as those dialogic cards
> are
> analog and digital.  Problem is the drivers and API for those cards you
> are
> bound by the drivers...  will they write them and give them away or do I
> have
> to stay with RH 7.3 for the rest of my life... not so with asterisk.
>
> MySQL functionality modules are built in from the ground up as well as an
> AGI
> or Asterisk Gateway Interface similar to CGI for a web server meaning you
> can
> code your program in perl or whatever you want and plug it into the
> asterisk
> server.
>
> All the logic/functionality is in the asterisk server, the card is there
> only
> to provide channels and the proper signalling for your data lines, you do
> the
> rest with asterisk and friends.  routing calls based on area code is as
> simple as adding a line to the channel configuraiton and dialplan.
>
> On Wednesday 03 November 2004 14:46, Walter Hansen wrote:
>> I've been on and off a Bayonne project here for about 3 years. I've got
>> a
>> 4 line dialogic card (finaly) on a RH 7.3 box with Bayonne working, but
>> haven't been assigned to play with it since I initially set it up. We
>> may
>> not even be going in that direction now. Anyway I wondered how does
>> Asterisk compare? Is it made to handle IVR stuff (we take credit apps
>> over
>> the phone). I really wanted something to interact with a mySQL database
>> chaning the script based upon what area code the call came in on and
>> what
>> number (T-1) the call was over and then record the info to the same
>> database. We've got a WinNT4 solution at the moment, but it's a pain and
>> very inflexable.
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