August 2007
Intermediate to advanced
608 pages
20h 33m
English
Content preview from Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, 2nd Edition
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Compiling Zaptel
Figure 3-3 shows the layers of interaction between Asterisk and the Linux kernel with respect to hardware control. On the Asterisk side is the Zapata channel module, chan_zap. Asterisk uses this interface to communicate with the Linux kernel, where the drivers for the hardware are loaded.
Figure 3-3. Layers of device interaction with Asterisk
The Zaptel interface is a kernel loadable module that presents an abstraction layer between the hardware drivers and the Zapata module in Asterisk. It is this concept that allows the device drivers to be modified without any changes being made to the Asterisk source itself. The device drivers are used to communicate with the hardware directly and to pass the information between Zaptel and the hardware.
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While Asterisk itself compiles on a variety of platforms, the Zaptel drivers are Linux-specific—they are written to interface directly with the Linux kernel. There is a project at http://www.solarisvoip.com that provides Zaptel support for Solaris. There is also a project that is working to provide Zapata drivers for BSD, located at http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=FreeBSD+zaptel.
First we will discuss the ztdummy driver, used on systems that require a timing interface but that do not have hardware. Then we will look at compiling and installing the drivers. (The configuration of Zaptel drivers will be discussed in the ...
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