[Asterisk-Users] newbie - simple dialout server

[Steven Critchfield]

Use google, and search the archive, modems aren't really supported as
they are half duplex.

Your error below is either a configuration error or an authentication
error as to why you couldn't even attempt to dial below.

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 10:11, Ferenc Kubinszky wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am new to Asterisk, so RTFM answers welcome too (just include the FM's
> link :).
> 
> I'd like to build a simple dialout server based on Asterisk.
> I installed 0.4.0 from package (a Debian SID machine, "server").
> The client is gnophone (a Debian SID machine too, "client").
> My modem is a GVC 56k voice modem connected to the server's serial port.
> 
> I modified modem.conf by enabling "type=aopen", because modem can't be
> autodetected. I've also added "device => /dev/ttyS2".
> The modem seems to be initialised.
> I am not sure what to do with "stripmsd=1"...
> 
> extension.conf:
> I've added "exten => 5957,Dial,Zap/1" to "[local]".
> 
> iax.conf:
> I've added the following block:
> [kubi]
> type=user
> context=local
> secret=mysecret
> 
> 
> I'd like to dial a phone number (5957, my other phone) from gnophone.
> gnophone's settings:
> 
> Use asterisk
> server 192.168.2.254 port 5036
> context local
> username kubi
> password mysecret
> 
> When I try to dial a number with gnophone the server logs the following
> line:
> 
> Jul 23 16:11:19 NOTICE[65541]: File chan_iax.c, Line 3844 (socket_read):
> Rejected connect attempt from 192.168.2.18, request '5957 at local' does not
> exist
> 
> And answers "no such context/extension" (sniffed with ethereal) to the
> client.
> 
> 
> OK, I am a newbie (3 hours old) to Asterisk...
> What did I miss, what to read, where to start ?
> Documentation coming in asterisk-doc package isn't too helpful :(
> 
> Best regards,
> Kubi
> 
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Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>