Asterisk on OpenBSD

4.1-stable

Asterisk 1.2.18 is in the (stable) ports tree.

3.8-stable

Asterisk 1.0.9 has been in our (stable) ports tree for a relatively long time.

3.8-current

Version 1.2.2 was about to go in when the timebomb bug fix release 1.2.3 was announced; 1.2.3 should be going in pretty soon.

There is no support for ZapTel hardware at this point, but people are using it with SIP phones and with IAX to DID providers, for example.

Why OpenBSD?

OpenBSD is well known as the most secure operating system around (yes, more so than Linux or MS-Windows). Many of us run OpenBSD as a server O/S (and even sometimes as a desktop O/S), so it makes sense to keep running it even when adding services that would appear to need special hardware.

Driver support exists in FreeBSD and will eventually make it here, if enough people need it.

See Also

• Installing Asterisk on OpenBSD 4.1
• Installazione di Asterisk su OpenBSD 4.1 (Italian)

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