asterisk users - Jun 2005 - Asterisk@Home connecting through firewall/router

I ditched the idea of using Asterisk straight through my router, there
was too much to set up in too little time for me.  I've found a spare
machine and installed Asterisk@Home on it.  Things run smoothly except
for connecting to my IAX provider; It doesn't even look like packets
are going out at all.

Here's my config:
                          ANY
Cable ------> Firewall/Router ------>   Switch ------->   
Asterisk@Home Box
                                                       
|------------->    Other PC's
                                                       
\------------->    SIP DTA's for internal phones

(The "ANY" refers to both a D-Link router appliance and my FreeBSD
router)

The phones register fine on the PBX.  I just can't get Asterisk to
authenticate out to the IAX server.  I've opened up all of the ports
listed on voip-info.org and even have gone so far as to put the box in
as the "DMZ" on the DLink.

At least on the FreeBSD install of * I could get connection.  Is there
something on Asterisk@Home (latest release downloaded this morning)
that I'm missing here?

Thanks!
Hatton

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of C. Hatton
Humphrey
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 10:46 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk@Home connecting through firewall/router


I ditched the idea of using Asterisk straight through my router, there was
too much to set up in too little time for me.  I've found a spare machine
and installed Asterisk@Home on it.  Things run smoothly except for
connecting to my IAX provider; It doesn't even look like packets are going
out at all.

Here's my config:
                          ANY
Cable ------> Firewall/Router ------>   Switch ------->   
Asterisk@Home Box
                                                       
|------------->    Other PC's
                                                       
\------------->    SIP DTA's for internal phones

(The "ANY" refers to both a D-Link router appliance and my FreeBSD
router)

The phones register fine on the PBX.  I just can't get Asterisk to
authenticate out to the IAX server.  I've opened up all of the ports listed
on voip-info.org and even have gone so far as to put the box in as the
"DMZ"
on the DLink.

At least on the FreeBSD install of * I could get connection.  Is there
something on Asterisk@Home (latest release downloaded this morning) that I'm
missing here?
______________________________________________

What does your iax.conf look like?

> The phones register fine on the PBX.  I just can't get Asterisk to
> authenticate out to the IAX server.  I've opened up all of the ports
> listed on voip-info.org and even have gone so far as to put the box in
> as the "DMZ" on the DLink.
Well okay, I'm not 100% sure what happened but I went into the
Asterisk machine, ran 'setup' (thank you for the RedHat friendly base)
and made sure the network was configured and the firewall was disabled
and then restarted both the FreeBSD router as well as the Asterisk box
and *poof* things started working!

Now to get the IVR's set up and working... should be a fun trick!

Hatton