bero*fix

The new bero*fix card from BeroNet is a kind of modular Media Gateway in form of a PCI card ¹⁾, which talks to Asterisk via SIP ²⁾. It will be detected by the the system as a standard network card ³⁾. It's the successor to the BNxSO and BNxE1 ISDN cards and can be used for BRI and/or S2M connections (also mixed). Information can be found here:

• http://berofix.com/index.php/Main_Page
• http://berofix.com/index.php/Using_berofix_with_asterisk

The easiest way to get access to the bero*fix card is to set up a bridge in AstLinux. Load the Realtek NIC driver (e.g. 8139too for PCI in /etc/rc.modules), then reboot and put

BRIDGE0="eth0 eth4"

into your user.conf (or /mnt/kd/rc.conf)⁴⁾, reboot again and then in the Network tab choose br0 for your Internal or External Interface. There is a small tool (12kB), called bfdetect, at the support page to change the default IP address and other network settings, but it is not included in AstLinux (yet ).

Note: The default IP address of the bero*fix is 10.0.0.2. You will initially need to assign BR0 an address in this range in order for bfdetect to work.