[asterisk-users] Can I call myself on the same machine

[Gordon Henderson]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, ayodele abejide wrote:

>> From: cursor at telecomabmex.com
>> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
>> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:54:27 -0600
>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Can I call myself on the same machine
>>
>> On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 23:40 +0000, ayodele abejide wrote:
>>> I am a newbie to asterisk, I have a complete installation of asterisk
>>> running on my ubuntu machine and I have x-lite installed also, I would
>>> like to know if I can call myself on the same machine, because
>>> whenever I try to call myself I get an engaged tone. My configuration
>>> file settigns are as below:
>>>
>> 	If you plan to use a softphone on the same machine then you need to
>> tell it to use a different port to listen for SIP.  Asterisk and your
>> softphone are both trying to listen to port 5060, that is why it always
>> fails.

> I tried port 5061 for my softphone, but the same problem occurs

Your soft-phone needs to be able to handle 2 concurrent calls (ie. have 
call waiting enabled) Not sure if the free version of x-lite allows this.

Gordon