asterisk users - Jan 2005 - How do i "talk" to the IAXy...? (Newbie Alert)

Hi,

hoping that experienced hands will quickly show me the right way: after a
fruitless web search i am turning to this list with my rather elementary
question: is there any other way to communicate with the IAXy besides using
special utility software that needs to be compiled under UNIX?

Here is the story: about two months ago, after some not very satisfactory
attempts at using SIP (my phone adapter and router don't seem to be able to
handle SIP's special requirements for free passage through umpteen ports),
i decided to try out hat i think is the conceptually better alternative
anyway, IAX, and signed up with "Diamondcards", a phone service
provider
using the IAX protocol. And today the post office delivered the IAXy
adapter that i ordered from Digium (i had it shipped surface mail since i
live in Okinawa and would have had to pay ovcer 50 bucks for air delivery).

To my surprise there was no manual, not even a single sheet with
instructions, in the package, but i quickly found a setup guide on Digium's
website. However, i can't make much sense of the rather sparse instructions
about "provisioning" the box (what's the difference between
"configuring"
and "provisioning"?). All i want to do is to tell the device my user
ID, my
password, and the server i want to connect to, but, as i found out at
http://ruk.ca/article/2501 , "while the Sipura unit has a friendly
web-based configuration tool, the IAXy requires compiling a small Unix
utility which is then used to provision the IAXy".

Well, my two computers are Macs from the OS 7 era, so there is no way i can
compile or run that utility to talk to the IAXy. And although i played
around a bit with the telephone and even got the dial tone to come up once
by punching some random number on the keypad, i am not optimistic that it
is actually possible to configure the IAXy via the telephone's key pad - i
couldn't find anything about this topic on the web.

So... how can i get the IAXy to work?

Thank you in advance: H. Daiku

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Many thanks


Vassilis

I think you need that provisioning tool from digium. And you need a unix 
system to compile and run it. I dont think theres any port to your OS.

Sorry...

On Saturday 08 January 2005 08:08, Daiku wrote:
> Hi,
>
> hoping that experienced hands will quickly show me the right way: after a
> fruitless web search i am turning to this list with my rather elementary
> question: is there any other way to communicate with the IAXy besides using
> special utility software that needs to be compiled under UNIX?
>
> Here is the story: about two months ago, after some not very satisfactory
> attempts at using SIP (my phone adapter and router don't seem to be
able to
> handle SIP's special requirements for free passage through umpteen
ports),
> i decided to try out hat i think is the conceptually better alternative
> anyway, IAX, and signed up with "Diamondcards", a phone service
provider
> using the IAX protocol. And today the post office delivered the IAXy
> adapter that i ordered from Digium (i had it shipped surface mail since i
> live in Okinawa and would have had to pay ovcer 50 bucks for air delivery).
>
> To my surprise there was no manual, not even a single sheet with
> instructions, in the package, but i quickly found a setup guide on
Digium's
> website. However, i can't make much sense of the rather sparse
instructions
> about "provisioning" the box (what's the difference between
"configuring"
> and "provisioning"?). All i want to do is to tell the device my
user ID, my
> password, and the server i want to connect to, but, as i found out at
> http://ruk.ca/article/2501 , "while the Sipura unit has a friendly
> web-based configuration tool, the IAXy requires compiling a small Unix
> utility which is then used to provision the IAXy".
>
> Well, my two computers are Macs from the OS 7 era, so there is no way i can
> compile or run that utility to talk to the IAXy. And although i played
> around a bit with the telephone and even got the dial tone to come up once
> by punching some random number on the keypad, i am not optimistic that it
> is actually possible to configure the IAXy via the telephone's key pad
- i
> couldn't find anything about this topic on the web.
>
> So... how can i get the IAXy to work?
>
> Thank you in advance: H. Daiku
>
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> So... how can i get the IAXy to work?
Someone you with a linux server can probably provision your IAXy
building the provision prog from downloadable source. They would need
to know a few things about your network and also the network you need
to connect to.

Just about anyone with a working asterisk can of course do it for you.
Fill out this info and send it to them:

; use ONE of the next two lines (change address if nec)
; dhcp
;ip: 192.168.1.15  ; internal LAN ip address
netmask: 255.255.255.0 ; 
;gateway: 192.168.1.1 ; change as needed
codec: ulaw
server:nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn ; IAX2 server
user: username
pass: password

;;;;options:
register
;heartbeat
;debug

Quoting from message: 05/01/08 19:12 +0900 sent by Arthur B
Olsen:
>I think you need that provisioning tool from digium. And you need a unix
>system to compile and run it. I dont think theres any port to your OS.
Quoting from message: 05/01/08 20:14 +0900 sent by Wilson
Pickett:
>Someone you with a linux server can probably provision your IAXy
>building the provision prog from downloadable source. They would need
>to know a few things about your network and also the network you need
>to connect to.
>
>Just about anyone with a working asterisk can of course do it for you.
Thanks, Arthur and Wilson... i got an idea now what to do: i'll try to
locate someone who is using Asterisk and who lives right here in Okinawa,
so that this job doesn't get too expensive...I suppose there exist some
directories of Asterisk users?

What would you suggest is a good way to find Asterisk users in Okinawa, to
get started? I am hoping that theree might even be a local club / support
group of sorts.

Thanks again!

Regards: H. Daiku

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I just tested another way...

On windows, install Cygwin, download iaxyprov, make, and you can run
it under Cygwin

It works, I just provisioned my IAXy with it

Quoting from message: 05/01/12 14:23 +0900 sent by
<timebandit001@gmail.com>:
>I just tested another way...
>
>On windows, install Cygwin, download iaxyprov, make, and you can run
>it under Cygwin
>
>It works, I just provisioned my IAXy with it
Bingo. :-)

Since i have access to a Windows machine at work, i'll try that route as
well...

Thanks & regards: Hendrik

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Daiku wrote:
> Since i have access to a Windows machine at work, i'll try that route
as
> well...
If you don't wanna install cygwin you can download iaxyprov compiled 
with Cygwin from:

ftp://ftp.planetarium.com.br/pub/util/voip/iaxyprov/

Bye,

     Leonardo

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  Leonardo Gomes Figueira
  sabbath@planetarium.com.br

Quoting from message: 05/01/18 20:24 +0900 sent by Leonardo Gomes
Figueira:
>If you don't wanna install cygwin you can download iaxyprov compiled
>with Cygwin from:
>
>ftp://ftp.planetarium.com.br/pub/util/voip/iaxyprov/

Hi, and thanks for the hint...!

A few days ago another helpful list subscriber sent me a small utility that
he compiled and tested himself, but since that day i have not been at the
place yet where i can use the Windows machine. Sometime this week or next
week...

I'll report the results here when all is done.

Thanks & regards: H. D.


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