[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk & SIP

[aaron]

for question 4.
You need to register with fwd first, then use 
registry => command in sip.conf.

aaron

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:32:07 -0700, Fletcher Bonds
<fbonds at seattle.telecomsys.com> wrote:
> 
> Good morning all,
> 
> I'm setting up Asterisk for the first time with no prior PBX experience.
> I'm following Andy Powell's 'Getting Started with Asterisk'
> (http://www.automated.it/guidetoasterisk.htm).  This is my second time
> through that document - as I did something weird the first time and really
> upset it somehow - and I wanted to ask a few general questions of the list.
> 
> First, a little on what I'm trying to do:  I need to setup the PBX to answer
> on multiple 'lines' (I use that word with trepidation as I'm not sure if
> it's the right term in the absence of modems & actual lines) and play a
> brief message identifying itself as the 'line' connected to.  The originator
> of that call will be a softphone.
> 
> Before rolling this out to my lab, I'm trying to work out the proper config
> on my laptop.  Therein I have Windows XP w/ VMware - Red Hat 7.3 is running
> in a VMware session.  My connection to the net is NAT'd.  My internal IPs
> for both XP & Linux are of the 192.168.x.x private network variety.  I have
> the Xten X-Lite softphone on XP to test with.  (I also have another called
> SJPhone, but haven't done much with that past installing it.)  I've
> configured a number for that through freeworlddialup.com.  X-Lite appears to
> be working fine.  At least I can dial their echo & test numbers without a
> problem and get the expected responses.
> 
> So the questions:
> 
> 1. A general "will this work?" (vmware linux, same pc as phone, NAT'd
> addresses,etc)
> 
> 2. Has anyone done it this way before and/or followed Andy Powell's doc, and
> have any suggestions or things to watch out for?
> 
> 3. Reading the various published SIP documentation (Ubiquity's
> 'Understanding SIP' for instance), it seems like freeworlddialup is acting
> as Registrar, Proxy & Redirect server.  Is that accurate?
> 
> 4. How do I tell the freeworlddialup registrar 'where' to find my PBX?
> Should I setup an account from it - like I did with the softphone on XP - so
> it will have a 'phone number' of its own?   Or is the proxy/redirect server
> expecting to talk to the Asterisk PBX in some other way?
> 
> I appreciate any and all responses.  Please cc my email address directly on
> replies as I have the list configured in digest mode to stem the flow a bit
> and don't want to miss any of them in the mix.
> 
> Thanks to one and all
> 
> Fletcher Bonds
> Operations Software Tester
> TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS)
> Enabling Convergent Technologies
> www.telecomsys.com
> Fbonds at seattle.telecomsys.com
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