[TriLUG] Suggested Asterisk voip setup
Jason White
jason at jw2.org
Thu Jan 29 19:03:30 EST 2009
* Hadrian Zbarcea (hzbarcea at gmail.com) [090129 15:18]:
> I saw good reviews for trixbox. It just moved to the top of my list :).
I've heard not-so-good reviews on trixbox, so I'm using "PBX in a
Flash", which bundles in FreePBX, and love it so far. It's a CentOS
v5 iso, and I have it running as a Xen guest under my Debian Etch
dom0. My Asterisk server is behind an iptables firewall (another
domU), and NAT works fine, assuming you port-forward SIP and RTP.
(Hint: only allow incoming SIP traffic from your provider(s))
Also, since I only have a single VoIP line (Broadvoice), I grabbed a
Grandstream HT-286 (~$30) to turn my analog phones into Asterisk
extensions.
Using the Ekiga (GNOME) softphone as another Asterisk extension,
usually connected to my Jabra bluetooth headset (connected via a
lovely little micro USB dongle[1]).
For me, Asterisk is/was a fun (and cost effective) project for my home
office, and once you get all the kinks worked out, it has a very high
wife approvoval factor! I just wish my $work PBX had a fraction of
the features...
Jason
1. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833242001
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