[General] VoIP For Home Usage

Majed B. majedb at gmail.com
Thu Aug 6 21:57:25 +03 2009


I found a document on securing trixbox yesterday written by one of
Fonality's engineers. I can't find the original link, but I attached
the file.

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Faisal AlAbhoul<kuwait at q8net.com> wrote:
> Easy, just change the wall socket, you can join 4-wires together in the wall
> socket itself to be powered by the line voltage itself. Dont try it unless
> you update the "kw" settings which Majed thankfully saved me from searching.
> Was going to get the settings from my Trixbox but unfortunately i cant SSH
> into my Trixbox, its a blackbox in my home network and heavily jailed.
>
>
> --- On Thu, 6/8/09, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [General] VoIP For Home Usage
> To: "General OpenSource Discussion" <general at oskw.org>
> Date: Thursday, 6 August, 2009, 9:32 PM
>
> @@ !!
>
> What if all the sockets have 2 wires only?!?!
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Faisal AlAbhoul<kuwait at q8net.com> wrote:
>> Oh you using Asterisk 1.6? the Ring/Disconnect tones should not change,
>> thats strange. I'll send you the "kw" tone settings soon.
>>
>> Did you try using 4-wires RJ11 socket instead of 2-wires? provided the
>> socket on the wall also 4-wires. i dont know why but it i remember that
>> helped with my TDM400P.
>>
>>
>>
>> --- On Thu, 6/8/09, Ahmad Al-Ibrahim <ahmad at koutbo6.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Ahmad Al-Ibrahim <ahmad at koutbo6.com>
>> Subject: Re: [General] VoIP For Home Usage
>> To: "General OpenSource Discussion" <general at oskw.org>
>> Date: Thursday, 6 August, 2009, 9:23 PM
>>
>> Thanks Bo Rashed,
>>
>> I've tried that without luck, I think I'm going to re-install.
>>
>> Dahdi is still Starting/Hanging up every second.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ahmad Al-Ibrahim
>>
>> Faisal AlAbhoul wrote:
>>> Set the tone to Germany, it matches Kuwait perfectly.
>>>
>>>
>>> --- On *Tue, 4/8/09, Ahmad Al-Ibrahim /<ahmad at koutbo6.com>/* wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>     From: Ahmad Al-Ibrahim <ahmad at koutbo6.com>
>>>     Subject: Re: [General] VoIP For Home Usage
>>>     To: "General OpenSource Discussion" <general at oskw.org>
>>>     Date: Tuesday, 4 August, 2009, 4:16 AM
>>>
>>>     I have configured the trunks, inbound routes, zap channels. It seems
>>> to
>>>     be something related to the line it self or the configurations to
>>> match
>>>     Kuwait PSTN tones, are you able to call the land line? and do you see
>>>     debug information on asterisk CLI while calling the land line? What
>>> is
>>>     the 'country' variable value in indications.conf, 'loadzone' and
>>>     'defaultzone' variables values in zaptel.conf?
>>>
>>>     Having a cronjob wont harm your system, atleast it works.
>>>
>>>     I've already saw this link in the morning, I dont have acpi variable
>>> set
>>>     in grub.conf.
>>>
>>>     Regards,
>>>
>>>     Ahmad Al-Ibrahim
>>>
>>>     Majed B. wrote:
>>>     > I was just about to email and ask you how things are going on your
>>>     end! hahaha.
>>>     >
>>>     > Well, seems like I wasn't the only one going through trouble...
>>>     >
>>>     > Have you configured the trunk, made sure the Outbound route is
>>> using
>>>     > that trunk, and that you have configured a general Inbound route?
>>> Did
>>>     > you configure an extension to receive/make calls?
>>>     >
>>>     > I know it sounds silly, but go over them again and try recreating
>>> the
>>>     > extension or make a new one and divert the inbound calls to it.
>>>     >
>>>     > I'll look around and see what could cause your problems.
>>>     >
>>>     > As for my side, remember that NAT & externip thing? It worked for a
>>>     > while, when asterisk wanted it to, then it broke. If in the home
>>> page
>>>     > the value "Public IP" is "Unknown" then you can kiss your audio
>>> good
>>>     > bye on any device outside the LAN from receiving audio. I'm too
>>> close
>>>     > to stab someone in the face... it's quite frustrating because my
>>>     > settings should work, and I don't want to run a script with a cron
>>> job
>>>     > to replace the domain name with the IP :/
>>>     >
>>>     > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Ahmad Al-Ibrahim<ahmad at koutbo6.com
>>>     </mc/compose?to=ahmad at koutbo6.com>> wrote:
>>>     >> Majed,
>>>     >>
>>>     >> I've installed OpenVox card, ran setup-pstn, the card was
>>>     detected and
>>>     >> configured, but I'm having problems, not sure what else needs to
>>>     be done.
>>>     >>
>>>     >> I keep getting lots of
>>>     >>
>>>     >>    -- Hungup 'DAHDI/1-1'
>>>     >>    -- Starting simple switch on 'DAHDI/1-1'
>>>     >>    -- Hungup 'DAHDI/1-1'
>>>     >>    -- Starting simple switch on 'DAHDI/1-1'
>>>     >>    -- Hungup 'DAHDI/1-1'
>>>     >>    -- Starting simple switch on 'DAHDI/1-1'
>>>     >>
>>>     >>
>>>     >> messages in asterisk console when the line is connected behind an
>>>     ADSL
>>>     >> splitter, and when i call the land line number the phone rings,
>>>     pick up
>>>     >> and hangups every second simultaneously with the messages above.
>>> I've
>>>     >> removed the ADSL splitter and connected the line directly to the
>>>     box, I
>>>     >> keep getting busy tone.
>>>     >>
>>>     >> Do I have to configure the device specifically for Kuwait PSTN
>>> tones?
>>>     >>
>>>     >> BTW Dahdi is zaptel in Asterisk 1.6
>>>     >>
>>>     >> Regards,
>>>     >>
>>>     >> Ahmad Al-Ibrahim
>>>
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