[Asterisk-Users] beginner's question!

[firedude at shorelinuxsolutions.com]

Another beginner here if I may jump in on this as well with a question.  
My question is very simular to the original poster in that I downloaded 
asterisk on my RH9 box.  It installed correctly and started correctly 
however even after having read the handbook, I'm still a bit confused 
about a few things.

My current setup is the asterisk server, then I have another box on my LAN 
that GnoPhone is running on.  I successfully registered with IAXtel and 
received a phone number from them. I also made a few test calls out with 
GnoPhone through IAXtel.  Those calls went fine.  Then I went back to try 
to configure my config files on the asterisk server.  As I understand it, 
since I'm using no hardware currently the only 2 files I need to edit are 
iax.conf and extensions.conf?? Now what I'm trying to do here is simply 
use GnoPhone to make calls out to the PSTN.  I would also like to receive 
calls on the GnoPhone from my iaxtel number as well as a PSTN number 
assigned by iconnecthere (the outgoing PSTN numbers would also go through 
iconnecthere).

Here's where I'm a little confused.  In the iax.conf file I'm not sure I 
understand what a context is.  I think I understand the rest of the things 
there besides the context.  In the extensions.conf file, how do I set this 
up for iax.  All the examples in the handbook seem to be for Zap and I'm 
not really understanding what each arguement after exten => are?  Can I 
just arbitrarily assign extensions?  If so what tells asterisk that the 
extension goes to the GnoPhone? I eventually would like to add some 
hardware to the eqyation but I think I'm baffled enough for right now.  
Thanks for any suggestions.
AJ


On Tue, 13 May 2003, Tilghman Lesher wrote:

> On Tuesday 13 May 2003 09:14 am, Dave Alan Caruana wrote:
> > What exactly is a SIP provider? is this essential? Leaving the line
> > as it was in the sample config file, asterisk crashes the machine
> > after trying to read the SIP.conf (Crashes to the extent that the
> > machine freezes .. )
> 
> If you have a dynamic IP, then registering is necessary in order for
> inbound calls to find you (at whatever IP you are today).  If you have
> a static IP (and you use that IP in your SIP address), then you should
> not need to register with a SIP registrar.
> 
> -Tilghman
> 
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