[Astlinux-users] Alternative bridging functionality (for trunk?)

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While trying to nail down more information about IAX, I came across this
in the mantis bug tracker.

http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=5841

This is work to put a form of alternative bridging functionality into
Asterisk, to solve some problems (getting around some MeetMe issues), and
to allow more things to be done through dialplan logic.


While the primary work on this is for Asterisk trunk, there seems to be
sufficient interest in backporting this functionality for Asterisk 1.2 it
seems.

I got into contact with Moises Silva, mentioned near the end of the bug
report comments, about his backport patch which should be the latest
version available for the 1.2.x series. He does not mind AstLinux using
it, though he desires some feedback in the bugreport to help improve the
bridge functionality overall (though there seems to be some negative
feelings regarding backport reporting in that bug comment thread
though...)

Anyways, the patch is here.

http://www.moythreads.com/asterisk/

You will need to edit the asterisk version info and path at the beginning
of the patch, then drop it into the asterisk package folder. I tried to
compile with it, but my compile box is starting to get strange, so I don't
trust it as much anymore. It seems to compile alright if  you don't
compile with mISDN stuff. If mISDN is present, the compile melts down near
the ISDN stuff, about not finding things. While the stated version is
intended for 1.2.12.1 it should be alright in higher versions.

Moises Silva indicated that the patch currently does not work with proxy
channels, such as Agent, but he's working on it. He specifically desired
feedback under heavy load, though I doubt we can provide meaningful
feedback in that aspect.




This brings up a small point I would like to make. Would it be possible to
add a small menuconfig option for something like Asterisk Custom under the
Asterisk package grouping? This would be so that you could turn off or on
compiling Asterisk with patches located in the packages/asterisk/custom
folder, which previously was being used to install the postgreSQL custom
patch. That way, I could drop in patches of interest to experiment with
relatively easily. This would be specific to Asterisk, as opposed to the
general experimental/unspported package choice.