asterisk users - Jul 2007 - VPN on Asterisk

Dear Tim;

What is folks? Where I can find it about VPN solution?

Regards
Bilal
> Hi,
>
> Greetings to All,
>
> Im looking for some help on configuring VPN on the
Asterisk PBX that
 I
> have hosted in US. Im currently in Middle East and
as everyone knows
> some countries here has taboo to VOIP. Im not able
to get phy phones
> registered to my PBX as they are blocking SIP and
IAX2. Hence im
> looking for a VPN solution.
>
> For this first i need to setup VPN on my server ..
Am i right? Well
 if
> anyone has experience in the whole setup how to make
it run, a guide
> would be much appreciated with some pointer to
equipment that are wel
> suited for the setup.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Danny
Danny, I'd be very interested to hear which countries
are blocking
 IAX2.

If they are just blocking it by port number, you can
always configure  
it to
run on a different port. If they are blocking it by
content inspection
(unlikely but possible I suppose) you could try
turning on encryption.

Personally I'd try doing both the above before going
down the VPN
 route.
However I know folks have VPNs working very well.

Tim.


Tim Panton

www.mexuar.net
www.westhawk.co.uk/




       
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Hi Bilal -
> What is folks? Where I can find it about VPN solution?
We have a language misunderstanding here.  "Folks" means people.  Tim
meant that he knows that some people have VPN's working with Asterisk.

As far as which VPN: feel free to choose - SSL-based, IPSEC, PPTP -
whatever you're comfortable with.  Be warned that all of them can
cause some loss in quality (because you're tunneling connection-less
UDP streams over connection-based TCP).


- Noah

> > Greetings to All,
> >
> > Im looking for some help on configuring VPN on the
> Asterisk PBX that
>  I
> > have hosted in US. Im currently in Middle East and
> as everyone knows
> > some countries here has taboo to VOIP. Im not able
> to get phy phones
> > registered to my PBX as they are blocking SIP and
> IAX2. Hence im
> > looking for a VPN solution.
> >
> > For this first i need to setup VPN on my server ..
> Am i right? Well
>  if
> > anyone has experience in the whole setup how to make
> it run, a guide
> > would be much appreciated with some pointer to
> equipment that are wel
> > suited for the setup.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Danny
>
> Danny, I'd be very interested to hear which countries
> are blocking
>  IAX2.
>
> If they are just blocking it by port number, you can
> always configure
> it to
> run on a different port. If they are blocking it by
> content inspection
> (unlikely but possible I suppose) you could try
> turning on encryption.
>
> Personally I'd try doing both the above before going
> down the VPN
>  route.
> However I know folks have VPNs working very well.
>
> Tim.
>
>
> Tim Panton
>
> www.mexuar.net
> www.westhawk.co.uk/
>
>
>
>
>
>
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