[Asterisk-Users] Registering Softphones to Asterisk

[Tim Cres]

Hi,

We have set up our Asterisk server, our extension.conf and sip.conf  
according to 
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/07/03/asterisk.html?page=4
It's quite basic, and extension.conf is set up properly.  The difficulty we 
are now encountering is in sip.conf, in trying to get any softphone to 
register at our own Asterisk server.

We have searched the mailing list, and find bits and pieces of information 
that kind of help, but are very much not complete.

The successes we've had include:

- registering extensions to Free World Dialup.  Once these were registered 
we could make calls to our fwd numbers and have them routed through to our 
asterisk server.  This would put us through to voicemail.

- have Asterisk route calls to a softphone.  Essentially, we just set up an 
extension in sip, hard coded the IP and Asterisk would route a call from the 
Free World Dialup to this extension.  The softphone receives the call and 
can communicate somewhat.  This sounds like it works nicely, but it is still 
lacking.

Our problem:

The problem is this... Asterisk routes the call to the hard coded IP.  The 
softphone is just sitting there listening for calls, but not registering 
with the Asterisk server.  Also, we cannot make calls from one extension to 
another through our own Asterisk server.

The questions:

1) How do we set up specific softphones to register to the Asterisk server 
and make calls to extensions through the Asterisk server?  The softphones we 
are trying include: SJPhone, Kphone, Linphone.  If you know of any others 
that work for you we'd sure like to know.

2) How do we configure sip.conf to do this?

If you have this working for you, please give us specific details concerning 
the setup of your sip.conf and especially the corresponding set up for your 
softphone.

We're very new to Asterisk and would very very much appreciate the help.

Thanks,
Tim & Rika

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