asterisk users - May 2008 - Making remote calls via my Asterisk server

All,

After using our Asterisk server now for over 6months, i have to confess 
to loving it and loving the power it affords us.  We've purchased a 
number of CISCO handsets and they simply rock.   Now we are based in the 
UK, and we make a lot of calls to the US which we naturally route via 
Asterisk and an outgoing provider.

What i would like to do, is to be able to call my Asterisk server via my 
mobile phone (through the normal public exchange as my Asterisk server 
answers a UK number), and then for me to dial a US number that will then 
connect me to my mobile phone.

Ultimately i want to make US calls via my mobile, hopping through my 
Asterisk server.   Since i have shed loads of inclusive minutes with my 
mobile plan, it will be the same price as if i was at my desk.

I *think* i can do this via the voice menu stuff.  I would dial in, 
press a number, and then dial my outgoing US number and it would route 
it for me.

Am i in the right area?

any advice would be gratefully received.  thanks

a

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On 28 May 2008, at 09:57, Alan Williamson wrote:
> Ultimately i want to make US calls via my mobile, hopping through my
> Asterisk server.   Since i have shed loads of inclusive minutes with  
> my
> mobile plan, it will be the same price as if i was at my desk.
Do you use FreePBX or anythin like that? Look up DISA.

Steven Howes wrote:
> On 28 May 2008, at 12:12, Sherwood McGowan wrote:
>   
>> Just keep in mind that DISA is a VERY dangerous thing to have in use,
>> make sure you secure it as much as possible, otherwise modern day
>> "phreaks" could discover it and make calls through your
system and/
>> or worse.
>>     
>
> Put an IVR in front of it that plays something which sounds like a  
> voicemail prompt :) then use the password feature. Then they should A)  
> Not know its a DISA and B) Have to guess an X digit password.
>
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Exactly, just wanted to remind the user that DISA needs to have a password.

use VMAuthenticate before DISA
that way you can secure it.


On 5/28/08, Sherwood McGowan <sherwood.mcgowan at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Steven Howes wrote:
>> On 28 May 2008, at 12:12, Sherwood McGowan wrote:
>>
>>> Just keep in mind that DISA is a VERY dangerous thing to have in
use,
>>> make sure you secure it as much as possible, otherwise modern day
>>> "phreaks" could discover it and make calls through your
system and/
>>> or worse.
>>>
>>
>> Put an IVR in front of it that plays something which sounds like a
>> voicemail prompt :) then use the password feature. Then they should A)
>> Not know its a DISA and B) Have to guess an X digit password.
>>
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> Exactly, just wanted to remind the user that DISA needs to have a password.
>
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