[App_rpt] Asterisk <-> Echolink gateway

[Skip WB6YMH]

If anyone is interested in adding EchoLink connectivity to their Asterisk 
node you might be interested in my project called "thebridge".  Thebridge 
is the conferencing software used by the majority of Echolink conferences 
and is also the basis of the EchoIRLP project.  Like Asterisk thebridge 
is an open source project released under the GPL.

You may download a tarball of the  latest beta of thebridge from:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thelinkbox/files/thebridge-1.05.tgz or you 
can check it out from the CVS repository on Sourceforge:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at cqinet.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cqinet login
 
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous at cqinet.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cqinet 
co -P thebridge

This version supports the latest chan_rtpdir Asterisk driver (0.5) and
includes the ability for Asterisk nodes to initiate connections to
Echolink nodes and disconnect nodes via touch tone.  Older versions of 
the chan_rtpdir (0.2) are no longer supported.

An Asterisk/IRLP wizard could also configure thebridge to act as an 
gateway to the IRLP network by using Asterisk to run the necessary IRLP 
scripts. 

NB: This code is for people who are knowledgeable about Asterisk and the 
app_rpt project. I needed a *lot* of help from W9SH and K6JWN to get my 
Asterisk node running.  Since I'm an Asterisk novice won't be offering 
any help for configuring Asterisk to use the new chan driver.

73's Skip WB6YMH