Hi
I don’t have a question, although earlier I was close to posting. Instead I wanted to share what I figured out today.
Since we installed our Asterisk system a couple months ago, every so often the linksys extensions would playback a message along the lines of “this device is not registered to make calls on the internet” when a number was dialed. When you hung up and redialed it worked fine.
It wasn’t a big problem, more of an annoyance, but I couldn’t really find any solution until today.
I was reading through the admin manual for the phone and found a setting which I’ve changed which seems to have fixed our problem.
Before I explain what I did I should explain how our system is laid out. The asterisk box is actually in our data center a few hundred miles away, so we connect via NAT through 2 firewalls. The assorted issues dealing with that were relatively easy to solve. This was my last remaining “bug”.
Anyways, the solution I found was this:
- Log into the web admin page for the phone.
- Select “admin” option
- Select “advanced” option
- Select the ext you are having problems with (in this case ours was 1)
- under “NAT Settings” there’s a “Nat keepalive message” which probably says “$NOTIFY”
- Change this to “$REGISTER” (without quotes).
This seems to have the effect of re-registering the phone on nat timeout, rather than just pinging it.
Just wanted to share this with everyone!