On Friday 20 August 2021 at 15:34:01, o1bigtenor wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 12:42 PM Antony Stone wrote:
> >
> > I didn't want to end up with Debian anyway - the only purpose was to be
> > able to install FreeSwitch, find out how much of it really depended on
> > systemd, and then work out how to get the rest of it working on Devuan.
> >
> > This way was quick, pretty easy, and very educational :)
>
> Hmmmmmmmmmm - - - very very interesting!!!!!!!!!!
>
> I was eyeing 'freeswitch' trying to get into an open source managed switch.
>
> Looking at buying a used switch and then installing whatevers to get what I
> would like.

Er, are we using the same definition of 'switch' here?

This is not an ethernet switch, or even an ethernet switch management system.

This is a telephony switch (Asterisk is a better-known example).

> Is this what you're working on - - -sorta?
>
> Verry (sic) curious - - - please?

I'm building something which can sit between an Asterisk server (which is
great as a server, but pretty dumb when being a client, and registering to
another server), so that I have the facility to put calls on hold, transfer
them etc, *on the remote PBX* (not on Asterisk).

In other words, providing the same call management functions you'd find on any
standard hardware SIP telephone, and which it turns out that Asterisk (as a
SIP client) cannot do.

FreeSwitch is a software application which you install on a Linux machine, and
it then talks SIP (and several other VoIP protocols) to telephones and service
providers. https://freeswitch.com/

Assuming it works, I may one day get the time to migrate everything I've built
in Asterisk (it is a very complicated system for a long-term customer) over to
FreeSwitch and just do everything there, but for the time being it's just an
"adaptation layer" to take calls generated by Asterisk and allow them to be
managed once they're in progress.


I think you're thinking of something else :)


Antony.

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