My zwhat?

[Jay Levitt]

I'm just getting ready to follow the PBX-in-a-flash 1.1 tutorial, installing in a Parallels virtual machine on my Mac Pro.

Reading ahead, I see: "from the command prompt, run genzaptelconf. This sets up your ZAP hardware"...

Er.

My what?

I'm setting up Asterisk on a virtual machine, connecting to a VoIP "trunk", using an SIP SoftPhone. I checked out the zaphardware web site, but they sell PCI cards. I don't know where the PCI slots are for my virtual machine. Are they in /var/lib/pci?

No, but... I'm guessing that Zaptel has come to mean some generic audio API, and that there's some dummy/pseudo interface I'll end up configuring?

 

[phinphan]

Zap refers to hardware to connect Asterisk to the PSTN. Things like a Digium TDM400 board or an x100p. In older versions of the software if you did not have one of those boards you needed to have dummy interface for timing purposes. I don't think that is the case in this version.