bero*fix

The new bero*fix card from BeroNet is a kind of modular Media Gateway in form of a PCI/PCIe card ¹⁾ or an external box, 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. It has 2 module slots, which can be used for BRI and/or S2M connections (also mixed). FXS, FXO, 2BRI/2FXS and GSM modules are now supported too. The bero*fix card has its own webserver and is configured via a WebGUI. Further Information can be found here:

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

Be sure to set it up as “Proxy”!

The easiest way to get access to an internal bero*fix card is to set up a bridge in AstLinux. See also this tip regarding bridges 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.conf⁴⁾, reboot again and then in the Network tab choose br0 for your Internal or External Interface. There is a small tool, called bfdetect, to change the default IP address and other network settings, which is now included in AstLinux (0.7.5+).

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.

Since Q4/2012 there is also a new bero*fix appliance available (mini-ITX board + bero*fix combined in a case).