RE: [Asterisk-Users] Gatekeeper

[Langley, Sean]

Asterisk does not included a gatekeeper but you can download a one from http://www.openh323.org   As for whether or not you NEED gatekeeper, probably not.  If you have a gatekeeper you can register your h323 endpoints (openphone) with the gatekeeper, then have asterisk register with the gatekeeper.  Only the phone numbers with the prefix specified in h323.conf would get routed from the gatekeeper to asterisk, otherwise the gatekeeper would handle all of the routing, but asterisk can do all of that.   If I were in a relatively small office (where a map of phone numbers to ip addresses are easy to keep track of) I probably wouldn't bother with a gatekeeper.   Regards, Sean Langley, P.Eng Firmware Engineer General Dynamics Canada (403)730-1482 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Wayne Methorst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 5:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Gatekeeper Hello   I am a newbie to Asterisk. We have set up Asterisk on a PC with Redhat 9.0. We have installed H323 openphone on our PC's. We are wondering what a gatekeeper does. It seems we need one but what I have seen in this group is that a gatekeeper must be installed on another box on the network. As all our PC's on the network use Microsoft OS is there a free gatekeeper software for microsoft operating system?   Does Asterisk have a built in gatekeeper?   Many thanks Wayne