Dear Iqbal: Thank you very much. I just want to plan a prepaid function in my scenario. And wanna test a tool (asterisk / b2bua of vovida). So I need another sound about what is the further.
Anyway, thank you for your valuable experience.
Charles
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:19:25 GMT, Iqbal iqbal@gigo.co.uk wrote:
um...dont understand, SER doesnt/shouldnt manage all.
Also ammendmen to post below, asterisk_b2bua below is not asterisk and from teh cursory glance i took it looks like as if it needs radius..
Iqbal
On 2/22/2005, "Walter Willis" walterwn@gmail.com wrote:
b2bua work with "SER"???
but the ser manager all.
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:52:01 GMT, Iqbal iqbal@gigo.co.uk wrote:
could ask this on asterisk :-) but answers inline
On 2/22/2005, "Charles Wang" lazy.charles@gmail.com wrote:
Dear ALL:
I find a program named "asterisk_b2bua" on http://developer.berlios.de/projects/b2bua/
And I also download them(two components) and try to test it.
But I have not enough knowledge about asterisk. It seems a Software PBX. Does asterisk_b2bua work? Does anybody ever try it?
worked with asterisk, but this seems like a stripped version so I havent used this, and it seems in pre alpha stage so not sure about it
I have questions about my scenario.
|======================> UA2 (Internet) |UA1 ===> SER ===> Asterisk B2BUA ===> Trunking A (PSTN) | | CDR + Prepaid + Handle Calls(Tear-down when call during limited) | | Authentication ( Radius / DB )
Q1. Will Asterisk's B2BUA pass through the "To" (such as 0939749xxx@ser.xxx.net.tw PSTN number) to Trunking A? In another word, is the B2BUA not necessary to rewrite the phone number?
yup, you use extensions in asterisk, but use default catchall ._ to take all your calls and then route them out to ur pstn provider
Q2. How can B2BUA know when to tear-down this call if the call has some limits. For example, UA1 has only 120 seconds to use this International call.
Because the rtp should go via the b2bua, and it is taking care of the billing so it knows how long the call has been in progress.
Q3. Is it necessary for Radius Authentication? Is it possible if no radius exists and SER and Asterisk use the same MySQL database.
You can make them all exists, I dropped radius early one, it didnt seem to add much benefit to what I was doing, mysql seemed to do it all, no point adding radius although some billing software does like to use radius records, so it all depends on how ur billing.
Asterisk by default uses its own DB, but this can be changed, but I am thinking that it might be better to keep them separate, because then ser DB can be moved off onto a diff machine, and u can use asterisk to maintain billing and keep that separate...ur accounst dept will want that guarded :-)
Q4. What do I need to download and setup when I use Asterisk to start this prepaid compoment? The first one shall be asterisk-1.0.5.tar.gz. Maybe some Mysql supported scripts or installaion. And any more??
Just asterisk, not sure what the latest release is, am installing new version this week, so if I get round to it, I'll give feedback
Iqbal
Best Regard Charles
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Charles Wang