[VoIP] Cisco 3810, Linksys Router and Call Data Records

[Paul Wills]

I sent that last one via the Verizon web access replying to a message that 
John originally wrote.  I have no idea how the Verizon webmail site can swap 
a reply address like that.

In response to John's comments:

1) The CDR I get is very readable by Excell.  I am just looking for 
asthetics.  Perhaps an Excell macro is all I need.

2) The CDR is the same as any other Asterisk.  That's one of the things that 
one should move to the USB flash drive to save space.

PDW


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Novack" <jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org>
To: <pdwills at cedarknolltelephone.com>; "Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog 
Switches" <voip at ckts.info>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [VoIP] Cisco 3810, Linksys Router and Call Data Records


> Curious, since Paul Will sent this, not me!!
> Has he broken into my Win2K machine??
>
> The CDR that NORMAL Asterisk writes can be read by Excell.
> Is there even a CDR written with your White Russian version??
>
> NOT PAUL WILLS!
>
> John Novack wrote:
>> Here's a variation on a theme:
>>
>> My 3810 has been working for a couple of months now and I am very 
>> impressed.  The sound quality is much better than anything obtained with 
>> the "PC based" FXS and FXO boards.  Outbound and inbound signalling have 
>> been flawless and it sits nicely in the equipment rack under the polar 
>> relay test panel.
>>
>> Once I got the 3810 running, there was absolutely no need to host any IO 
>> in the Asterisk processor.  Having found out about an alternative 
>> Asterisk platform from Mr. Jones, I figured it was time to get rid of the 
>> PC completely and conserve power.  The Linksys router (a WRTSL54GS) has 
>> just enough space to run a minimal version of Linux and Asterisk.  The 
>> best part about the WRTSL54GS is that it has a USB port which allows for 
>> the use of a flash memory to hold all the sound files and logs.  (With no 
>> moving parts!)  I believe the entire power requirement is a measly 5 
>> watts.
>>
>> To address several operating problems, I upgraded the Linux to the latest 
>> version they had for the router as well as Asterisk to 1.4. 
>> Unfortunately, 1.4 just doesn't stream audio data as well as a larger 
>> processor so I eventually went back to 1.2 with better results.  (The 
>> operating problems eventually turned out to be related to other issues, 
>> since resolved, that had nothing to do with the Linux or Asterisk 
>> versions.)  As a basic switch, it works fine.  There is no voice mail to 
>> speak of and the lack of an internal Zaptel timer limits a few other 
>> functions that I don't use.
>>
>> This all leads to one question:
>>
>> There is absolutely no more room to install anything so I can't install a 
>> PHP server or any database software.  All the CDR viewers I find need PHP 
>> and MySQL installed on the server to work.  Does anyone know of something 
>> that would run on a Windows machine and simply read the shared CDR file 
>> that "lives" on the Asterisk box?
>>
>> PDW