If you’ve installed Asterisk and FreePBX, or you’re using one of the preconfigured distributions such as Trixbox or Elastix, a good idea is to have the linux firewall, iptables, running on your system. Here’s an example of how you could set this up. First thing to note is that it’s pretty easy to lo ...
I have 150 extensions in my asterisk-freepbx setup, which are broadly divided into following two classes :- Record Incoming Call On Demand. Record Outgoing Call On Demand Extensions in this class: 8001, 8002, 8003, 8004, 8005 (total 5 in number) Record All Incoming Call. Record All Outgoing CallExte ...
There are several steps involved with routing a call based on time-of-day in FreePBX but it’s quite flexible. The first thing you need to do is install the “Time Conditions” module. To do this click on the “Tools” tab in FreePBX and then click “Module Admin”. Select the Time Conditions module, click ...
One simple thing you can do to stop unwanted callers with FreePBX is install the “Blacklist” module. Obviously this will only work if the Caller ID number is presented to your system when the caller rings. To install the module click on the Tools tab in FreePBX and then the Module Admin menu option. ...
Using a callwithus DID with FreePBX/Asterisk is very straight forward. First you need to purchase the DID through your callwithus account. I am buying a number located in the UK. Once you have purchased the DID you can click on the DID menu option again to check where the DID is being forwarded to. ...
There is a lot of buzz in the media around VoIP and how it can lower business telecommunications costs. While VoIP does beat traditional phone service on cost, it also provides the ability to tie small businesses into the phone company’s switching network more closely, which is a far more significan ...
I was install Asterisk now 1.5 with Freepbx 2.5.1.5. I try upload mp3 file to music on hold. I choose file and click upload, after some second my web page say some reason: Error Processing: “sh: mpg123: command not found sox: Can’t open input file ‘/var/lib/asterisk/mohmp3/orig_november_rain.mp3′: N ...
Although I have technically finished up the series on the Atcom AG-188N (sold in North America by CIGear), I wanted to open a post to answer any questions or comments that may arise. One thing that came up in another thread was that I didn’t say much about how the AG-188N unit can be remotely provis ...
In yesterday’s installment of this series we discussed the internal router and other networing capabilities of the Atcom AG-188N (sold in North America by CIGear). The one thing that had me a bit puzzled was the implementation of VPN Tunneling. I’ve since been informed that the UDP method of VPN tun ...
Elastix: гибридное решение для быстрого и простого развертывания VoIP телефонии Сергей «grinder» Яремчук Создание своего VoIP-сервиса с использованием свободных компонентов - дело далеко не простое. От администратора требуется знание не только основ работы с *nix системами, но и специфики VoIP и кон ...