[Asterisk-Users] Change IP info.

[C. Maj]

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, William C. Ray waxed:

> Hello i was wondering how i can change the IP address information for my Asterisk box, IP addy, Gateway, DNS.
> 
> I have a smoothwall router that i am using and i am tring to put the Asterisk box on the orange interface so if anyone can help me please i can use it.

I was wondering what a smoothwall was, so I checked it out.
smoothwall.org first, then when I saw the full color 86 page
administrator guide, I thought, wow, this can't be all of
it, so I found smoothwall.net, where they will sell you all
manner of 'smoothie' flavors AKA linux.  Neat.  I saw one of
these at a tradeshow the other day for $2500, so I took a
second look, at least that's my excuse to the list for
taking a look and helping out.  :P

I'm assuming this is the commercial version in question.
And from question 1 on the FAQ at smoothwall.net, it says
that the orange interface is the DMZ and green is the local
protected interface.  There are also red IP's, not sure what
they do.  But this appears to be a traffic light running
some form of embedded Linux.

Also in the FAQ, Mel Gibson gets props for his appearance as
Mad Max, in Mad Max 2: The 'Road Warrior', which is what you
use 'on the road' to get at your 'smoothie' -- one must hope
it will still work after the apocalypse.  Myself, I would
rather use industrial hemp for fuel than fight over dinosaur
bones, but that would make a pretty boring action movie.
Maybe fodder for a Mel Brooks comedy ?

Anyhow, back to the question at hand, if you can change the
IP address for a windows box via the smoothie windows GUI,
chances are you can do the same for the Asterisk box.
That's if you are running Asterisk on Linux, which I assume
you didn't get it to compile on FreeBSD, so it's probably
Linux.  You might need to know the MAC address of the
network card on the Asterisk box to change it's IP addy.
Gateway and DNS should be the same as what you set on the
windows boxes.

Apart from not knowing or being able to understand how
exactly you got Asterisk running (configs, etc.), if you can
do the IP stuff with smoothie for windows, you can probably
do it with smoothie for linux.

--Chris


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