asterisk users - Feb 2004 - Asterisk and Vonage -- possible? Other DID providers with Atlanta presence?

OK, time for this 1 day old Asterisk convert to start getting his feet wet
:)

I have just installed Asterisk on a Redhat box -- easy installation!

I am not using any analog interface hardware, instead am going to try to
test using my Vonage account.

Soooo..... The question is, how would I set up Asterisk to replace my
Motorola VT100v  voice terminal that Vonage provided me?  I have been
through the manual, and determined it is using SIP, so how do you set up
asterisk to send and receive from a SIP provider.

Next (more advanced?) question, if I get a second SIP DID how would I set
this up also.

I am going to be developing some apps to use with Asterisk so plan on
contributing here just as soon as I can :)

Thanks in advance!


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Replacing the sip terminal for Vonage isn't possible. The terminal is locked
and will not allow access by the user to get the user/password info, and the
user/password handshaking is encrypted which prevents it from being spied 
upon. 

The only way this will work is if you plug the analog output of the SIP 
terminal into an asterisk FXO card such as the X100p. I use this setup,
but it has the drawback exacerbating echo problems.

This issue is one of my personal pet peeves, but the ITSP's refuse to
allow direct access because thier paranoid about fraud in the form of
distributing user/passwords to multiple users.

I suppose if you were determined, you could gain access to and dissassemble
the firmware in the SIP box to try and get at the configuration info, but I 
suspect it won't be easy unless you have lots of reverse engineering 
horsepower at your disposal.

Steve.






On Sunday 15 February 2004 13:00, Tom Knox wrote:
> OK, time for this 1 day old Asterisk convert to start getting his feet wet
>
> :)
>
> I have just installed Asterisk on a Redhat box -- easy installation!
>
> I am not using any analog interface hardware, instead am going to try to
> test using my Vonage account.
>
> Soooo..... The question is, how would I set up Asterisk to replace my
> Motorola VT100v  voice terminal that Vonage provided me?  I have been
> through the manual, and determined it is using SIP, so how do you set up
> asterisk to send and receive from a SIP provider.
>
> Next (more advanced?) question, if I get a second SIP DID how would I set
> this up also.
>
> I am going to be developing some apps to use with Asterisk so plan on
> contributing here just as soon as I can :)
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
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On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 16:00:04 -0500, Tom Knox wrote:
>I am not using any analog interface hardware, instead am going to try to
>test using my Vonage account.
>
>Soooo..... The question is, how would I set up Asterisk to replace my
>Motorola VT100v  voice terminal that Vonage provided me?  I have been
>through the manual, and determined it is using SIP, so how do you set up
>asterisk to send and receive from a SIP provider.
>
>Next (more advanced?) question, if I get a second SIP DID how would I set
>this up also.
I used Vonage for a year, up until last month in fact. However, there
doesn't seem to be a way to avoind using their ATA/MTA if you use their
service. You won't be able to connect directly to their servers with
your * box.

Soooo....I switched to VoicePulse Connect. I actually prefer their 2.9
cent/minute rates as opposed to a flat $35/month. I rarely use 1000
minutes/month so I'm saving money over Vonage.

There was a down side in that VP doesn't offer DIDs in my area.
Therefore I still have 2 POTS lines for incomming calls, but that was
likely going to stay that way anyhow, as abackup to when the ISP or
ITSP have problems.

Also, in order to pass SIP through your router you're going to have
open up potentially a lot of ports. I prefer to connect to VPC using
IAX2, which requires that I open only one port.

Michael Graves

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