[Telephony] Asterisk RPM's for Fedora, redhat 7.3, 8 and 9.

[Scott Petersen]

Steve P. Shack wrote:
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+RPM
> This url has info about setting up these rpms.
> 
> ftp://ftp.nacs.net/asterisk/
> While this url has the actual rpms.
> 
> If you have trouble with asterisk not installing because it's missing
> libtonezone, make sure you install the zaptel package (The kernel modules
> package is not needed). Even if you aren't using zaptel hardware,
> asterisk is linked against the tonezone library with the zaptel
> package provides.
> 
> To summarize tonights telephony meeting: We watched Alex eat, a
> stunning 3 course meal. 
> 
> Seriously though, we managed to get asterisk installed on two systems
> and call back and forth between then. One was behind a NAT firewall,
> which  was quite a trick. We also managed to call a sales desk at
> digium. Also of significance is that the voices in asterisk were done
> by the same lady that did the voices in the halflife video
> game. "Thank you for calling the black mesa research facility..."
> 
> Tim brought up the topic of calling queues, matching clients to agents
> which was quite interesting. But doubtful if it is of much importance
> to most of the members of this list. 
> 
> That essentially sums up tonights meeting, Fairly successful. We had a
> large amount of clue together in one room and things progressed quite
> quickly from the get go. 

One other thing that was tested was an IAX client on a local machine 
behind a NAT connecting to my remote Asterisk server also natted but 
with port forwarding set. We then used this client to call out to my 
cell phone.

Cheers
Scott