Asterisk Notes

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Installing on CentOS

Taken from O'Reilly book Asterisk - The Future of Telephony

yum install -y gcc ncurses-devel libtermcap-devel kernel-devel kernel-smp-devel
 gcc-c++ openssl-devel newt-devel zlib-devel unix)DBC-devel libtool make
 kernel-source
cd /usr/src/
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/asterisk/asterisk-1.4-current.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/libpri/libpri-1.4-current.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/zaptel/zaptel-1.4-current.tar.gz
tar -xzvf ...
ln -s /usr/src/'uname -r' /usr/src/linux-2.4
ztdummy driver if you don't have timing hw

Zapata drivers for Digium HW
    cd /usr/src/zaptel-version
    make clean
    ./configure
    make menuselect
    make
    make install
    make configure

Checking version

taken from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21060760/check-the-version-of-asterisk-i-am-running

asterisk -r
  core show version
If that not work, you are running version <1.8 and you need do
  asterisk -r
  show version
Also you can try
  asterisk -v
Fail that try
  asterisk -V

Configuring SIP

http://www.asterisk.name/configuring-sip.html