[Asterisk-Users] Unable to connect to Asterisk? (simple[?] question)

[Peter Bowyer]

Try this:

http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+firewall+rules

Peter

On 13/06/06, John Klimek <jklimek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ahhh, that would explain it.  I setup my firewall (eg. Shorewall) to
> allow incoming TCP connections to port 5060.  I've changed it to UDP
> port 5060 and it works great!  (well, Asterisk says "Forbidden", but
> that's just a simple config problem I'm sure)
>
> Which other ports do I need to forward/open to get Asterisk working
> properly?  I'm guessing I only need port 5060 open to my local
> network...
>
> Do I need any ports open for connections from the internet?  (eg.
> incoming connections)
>
>
> On 6/13/06, Peter Bowyer <peter at bowyer.org> wrote:
> > SIP is a UDP protocol, and telnet is TCP. You can't test it like that.
> >
> > Have you tried connecting with a SIP client?
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > On 13/06/06, John Klimek <jklimek at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I'm trying to setup Asterisk on my Linksys WRT54G router and it
> > > appears to startup successfully (no errors) and it says it is
> > > listening on 0.0.0.0 port 5060, but I am unable to connect to it.
> > > I've tried "telnet localhost 5060" but it just says connection
> > > refused.  I've also tried connecting from another machine on my
> > > network (eg. telnet 192.168.0.1 5060) but it also says connection
> > > refused.  Finally, I've tried changing the bound address in sip.conf
> > > to "127.0.0.1" and "192.168.0.1" but I am still unable to connect
> > > using all the methods mentioned above.
> > >
> > > What else can be the problem?  Can I have some sort of iptables problem?
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