PBX and OpenBSD

[Chris Humphries]

Hello Gang,

Just wondering if anyone has setup a PBX with OpenBSD?
I have been looking at some free solutions, such as
http://www.asteriskpbx.com/main/index.html and
http://bayonne.sourceforge.net. They seem to be linux biased,
yet that doesnt mean they cant be ported.

I dont know enough about pbx cards. I was looking at the
hardware supported list for i386, and i dont know what is
what. http://store.yahoo.com/asteriskpbx/wildcardx100p.html
is one that is relatively cheap that asterisk works with
supposedly well.

Thanks,
Chris Humphries

[Kevin Sexton]

Post by Chris Humphries
Hello Gang,
Just wondering if anyone has setup a PBX with OpenBSD?
I have been looking at some free solutions, such as
http://www.asteriskpbx.com/main/index.html and
http://bayonne.sourceforge.net. They seem to be linux biased,
yet that doesnt mean they cant be ported.
I dont know enough about pbx cards. I was looking at the
hardware supported list for i386, and i dont know what is
what. http://store.yahoo.com/asteriskpbx/wildcardx100p.html
is one that is relatively cheap that asterisk works with
supposedly well.
Thanks,
Chris Humphries

I would be interested to know as well. We run Bayonne with a four port
Voicetronix card (www.voicetronix.com.au) here but on Gentoo Linux
(Emerge is cool). Six out of nine computers here run OpenBSD, and we
ship more OpenBSD machines than anything else but we haven't tried
OpenBSD yet with Bayonne, shame on us. There is a FreeBSD driver for
the Voicetronix cards... We are actually very close with the gentlemen
at Open Source Telecom and have helped them in the past with some
telephony application development. As I understand station side PBX
functionality is still in heavy development. OST (www.ostel.com) does
custom development and can add any particular functionality but you will
have to pay for their time. We would be thrilled to help them with a
OpenBSD/Bayonne/PBX project! :-) I do not know Asterix too well but it
looks like a neat project and could possibly do for you what Bayonne
can't. It does appear to be Linux only as well.

The Wildcard is kind of funny... $99!? That is just a host processing
modem! You can find such a thing for $10-$15 at Fry's!

If you are stuck on OpenBSD for your telephony project I fear you might
be out of luck. I'd say give Asterix or Bayonne a go on Linux. If you
are a ports fan, try Gentoo, you forget for brief moments you are using
Linux. :-)


--Kevin

[a***@pilosoft.com]

Post by Kevin Sexton
The Wildcard is kind of funny... $99!? That is just a host processing
modem! You can find such a thing for $10-$15 at Fry's!

Not exactly. DSP-less modems don't have drivers or documentation for them.

Asterisk won't run on BSD, their hardware drivers are linux-specific. Not
to say they can't be ported, but as it is, they are not.

-alex

[Kevin Sexton]

Post by Kevin Sexton

Post by Kevin Sexton
The Wildcard is kind of funny... $99!? That is just a host

processing

Post by Kevin Sexton
modem! You can find such a thing for $10-$15 at Fry's!

Not exactly. DSP-less modems don't have drivers or documentation for
them.
Asterisk won't run on BSD, their hardware drivers are linux-specific.
Not
to say they can't be ported, but as it is, they are not.
-alex

You are right. I am sure the time spent on docs, code and qualification
are well worth the price of the Wildcard. No offense intended to the
hardworking people of the Asterix project.

On another note, there seems to have been quite a bit of work put into
running Bayonne on FreeBSD with Voicetronix adapters. I have no idea
what state this is in. I also hear there is an Apple sponsored port of
Bayonne to OSX. There is development for a number of platforms I guess
is my point. If telephony on OpenBSD is an itch to scratch for anyone
out there, I am sure Voicetronix and OST would be pleased to provide
whatever support they can to an OpenBSD telephony project.


--Kevin