Asterisk

Asterisk Notes

• due to the way the make file is written for asterisk it requires the kernel-devel files to be present and a link to them placed in /usr/src
• the zaptel and asterisks makefile rely on this when performing an install from source

• installing Asterisk from the repo installs the 1.6beta9 currently, this has a know issue with the optional ldap authentication causing the Asterisk server to crash which should be fixed in beta 10. -more info at http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/07/24/open-source-telephony-a-fedora-based-voip-server-with-asterisk/
• using the default behavior to configure the users and access through the sip.conf and the other related files should avoid any ldap bugs

• installing the common components from the repo currently works and provides a base Asterisk server which will need to be manually configured and started (yum install asterisk asterisk-alsa asterisk-voicemail asterisk-voicemail-plain)
• if you want to test out all of the functionality Asterisk can offer install all of the asterisk packages using yum install asteris*
• note that installing all components will require more configuration of all of the individual components and .conf files