Asterisk Setup for noob...

[zevin]

Ok, here is one for you all to ponder for today. I am green and would like to play and learn.

I have an older (2 years old) compaq installed with asterisk@home or asterisk now 1.0.2 (confused over all the names). Installed it all last night with no problems.

* is connected to my network via router then modem. I have a linksys wireless 4 port router. I set up a static ip in router via DHCP and Mac address. Machine now connects to 192.168.1.111 no problem.

I was not able to connect to the * via 192.168.1.111 in web browser. I rebooted * and performed line by line verification of boot. I did not authorize the firewall this time and was able to connect to * via web browser.

Now I rebooted the * last night and have not been able to connect to * GUI.

How would I modify the firewall to allow access. I will also need some help further along. Will I be able to play with this using the service VOIPo provides? Do you guys have an * running and how do you use it?

I would ultimately like to use this as a PBX on my property to call the apartments in the back. I have a few apartments for college students on my property. They all have cat5 drops.

Thanks for your advise and tips. I am really green and am eager to learn.

[dswartz]

If this machine is behind the router and needs no firewall, I think (I use redhat, which is what I think trixbox uses) you want this:

chkconfig firewall off

p.s. do yourself a huge favor here: what you are running is OLD. chock-full of bugs and honestly it sucks. a good distro to try is pbxinaflash.

[zevin]

If this machine is behind the router and needs no firewall, I think (I use redhat, which is what I think trixbox uses) you want this:

chkconfig firewall off

p.s. do yourself a huge favor here: what you are running is OLD. chock-full of bugs and honestly it sucks. a good distro to try is pbxinaflash.

I did not know that... There seems to be so many variations to the * system.

I am open to any and all suggestions. I will look at pbxinaflash and I will probably install tonight. Anything I should be aware of?

Thanks for your reply dswartz, keep the ideas coming.

[dswartz]

Not offhand. I've not used pbxinaflash, but I've heard good things and it is less flaky than trixbox.

[scott2020]

PBX In a flash is great and I think much cleaner than trixbox. They are also building it so upgrades aren't a huge pain. There are lots of cool scripts made for it too that install neat little extras.

However, in another thread about odd disconnects, there is some discussion about Asterisk 1.4 with VoipO disconnecting after 30 minutes. It apparently has something to do with session timers not being supported in Asterisk 1.4.

But, the PIAF ISO image allows you to install 1.4 or 1.6 beta, and the 1.6 beta does work with session timers. I haven't tried it yet personally but I plan to.

Scott

[dswartz]

I can confirm the session timer aspect. I am running asterisk on a separate box (not pbxinaflash) and migrated from 1.4 to 1.6 so I could make voipo calls longer than 30 minutes