Asterisk v21 states on their website:
" We understand that there are those who are not yet willing to part with chan_sip. The patch(es) for it’s removal will be generated as part of the removal process. One of the beautiful things about open source software is that you can fork and maintain for yourself whatever you are able. Other current versions of Asterisk will continue to include chan_sip"
dicko, do you have ANY respect for the Asterisk project’s working to make it possible to include chan_sip by generating patches that allow it to be put back? Even THEY say this is a beautiful thing - don’t you think so?
They did. And the result is here:
I will also point out that Asterisk itself is designed to allow other channel drivers to be included. I don’t think that the channel driver that was written by Sangoma to drive their POTs gateway cards that can be purchased is maintained by the Asterisk project, for example.
And of course, there is also the
and
channel drivers which were also forks of the original chan_skinny driver included in Asterisk at all. The Asterisk project had a chan_skinny which was deprecated years ago and removed. However, once more, the Asterisk project did not “slam the door” on the Skinny protocol channel driver. They coud have, easily, by removing the capability of supporting channel drivers. Of course, that would screw over chan_pjsip. But, no sacrifice is to great to preserve “purity”
The simple FACT is that the Project has written Asterisk to permit other channel drivers to be used. They may not include those drivers and they may not maintain those drivers but they are not running around telling people to not use them or remove those drivers from Asterisk like you are.
dicko, you stated “you can not build, load or use either” which is basically not true since (while you can’t build macros and nobody has forked those, apparently, due to need) you can indeed build and load and use chan_sip.
Getting back to my ORIGINAL question - FreePBX 17 includes all the menus for chan_sip, IF you back-rev Asterisk to version 20 using the change asterisk version command in FreePBX 17. I am merely asking why those aren’t visible when chan_sip is included in Asterisk 21.
Note that FreePBX 17 very likely does not retain any of the code that originally created menus for provisioning things under chan_skinny in the older versions of Asterisk, which is why I am not asking about menus for chan_sccp in FreePBX 17. The chan_sccp project documents manual configuration of phones using SCCP using the sccp.conf file. An example is here:
There is also a 3rd party plugin to FreePBX that allows for creation of chan_sccp extensions (and I believe also creates the phone’s TFTP config files) located here: