[OpenSIPS-Users] Newbie questions about OpenSIPS

Klaus Darilion klaus.mailinglists at pernau.at
Wed Dec 10 21:44:54 CET 2008


Yehavi Bourvine wrote:
> Hello,
>  
>   Up to now I used Asterisk as our pilot phone exchange (around 20 
> extensions). I am now installing and learnning OpenSIPS/Kamailio to be 
> used as a front end to Asterisk in order to support much more 
> extensions. I have a fe questions:
>  
> 
>     * As far as I see Kamailio and OpenSIPS are quite interchangeable in
>       the sense that I can take the config file from one of them and use
>       it on the other. Am I right?

If you compare Kamailio 1.4 and OpenSIPS 1.4 then the config file syntax 
is more or less the same.

If you are comparing trunk version (which will become 1.5) then you get 
new features which differ.

regards
klaus

>     * How do I generate music on hold? I understand that OpenSIPS is not
>       a media server thus it cannot generate it, but can I use Asterisk
>       to generate it? If so, is there an example config for openSIPS
>       and  Asterisk?
>     * When an extension is busy I have some code in Asterisk to wait for
>       the busy side to hangup and then generate a call to the original
>       caller (here this feature is called "Call again") using the call
>       files. . Is there some way to generate such a call in openSIPS
>       like the "call files" in Asterisk, or will I have to use Asterisk
>       for this feature?
>     * And a different topic: When using more than one table in a MySQ:
>       server, is there any difference between calling the function
>       modparam("acc", "db_url" ...)  for all tables at once, or can I
>       call it for each one separately without having any performance issues?
> 
>                                              Thanks! __Yehavi:
>  
> 
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