With advice of and some help from Jim, I was able to successfully get app_rpt working within Asterisk 1.8 with some notable issues including: channel drivers were still in a bad state and were prone to crashing or didn't work at all. | With advice of and some help from Jim, I was able to successfully get app_rpt working within Asterisk 1.8 with some notable issues including: channel drivers were still in a bad state and were prone to crashing or didn't work at all. |