Hi,
I am interested in ideas to do the following:
I have an Asterisk server with multiple Broadvoice accounts configured and they work well. With my Softswitch I want to place only outgoing calls using the Broadvoice accounts configured on my Asterisk server. Although, my Softswitch doesn’t allow registration/authentication, I need to connect it with my Asterisk server and place outgoing calls using my Broadvoice accounts. Any ideas of how I can configure this or if it is possible? The big issue is that my Softswitch absolutely cannot register or authenticate.
Thank you for your help.
[quote=“RIQUISIMO”]Hi,
Any ideas of how I can configure this or if it is possible? The big issue is that my Softswitch absolutely cannot register or authenticate.
Thank you for your help.
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The best way to do this, if i have read your post correctly, is it put a firewall between the asterisk box and the Softswitch, then you authenticate the connections via IP address disallowing anything that is not in the Firewall rules, the best one to use for this is Linux as i have found it does not interfere with the voice packets like other firewalls i have seen.
By doing this you can send SIP sessions to the Softswitch without Authentication, as i do in many scenarios.
However in saying that, why don’t you just use Asterisk as your Softswitch?
Cheers,
David.
Can you email me an example of how my Asterisk would be configured? The sip.conf and extensions.conf? Can this be done without a firewall? Thanks for your reply.
Uhm i would e-mail you this, but to be honest it is best to work it out, you should ask questions yeah, but i don’t personally have the time to draw up the config files for you. Posting on here i know barley gets you replies, but there is some good hearted people still that like to help.
As for it being done without a firewall, well yeah it can be done, but you have to give more information I.E what is the brand of the Softswitch, why is it there and what is its role in the whole picture.
I understand you gave an explanation in the first post, but more information might be needed in order to try to assist you, it is very hard to work of little information.
Also if the Asterisk Box is staying on the LAN and just communicating with the SoftSwitch over the LAN, then there will not be a need for a Firewall, however if it is going to go over the public Internet then yes you will need one, and running the connection without one is playing with fire and you will get burnt out there.
Once you give us the brand of the SoftSwitch you have, it may give myself or anyone else an idea on what its capabilities are in terms of configuration, and how flexible it is, in the end you may not be able to do a great deal with it.
Cheers,
David.
David:
Thank you for your reply and interest. My softswitch is Nextone. I want to configure it to place calls using the SIP accounts configured on my Asterisk, but authenticating only with:
- IP Address
- Prefix
Because my Nextone SS is unable to authenticate with a username and password.
Is this possible?
Thanks once again.
Regards,
Carlos
[quote=“RIQUISIMO”]David:
My softswitch is Nextone. I want to configure it to place calls using the SIP accounts configured on my Asterisk, but authenticating only with:
- IP Address
- Prefix
Because my Nextone SS is unable to authenticate with a username and password.
Is this possible?
Thanks once again.
Regards,
Carlos[/quote]
Hello Carlos,
Ok I have worked with Nextone before, personally myself i don’t call it a SoftSwitch as the majority of Carriers who use Nextone use it for Session Border Controllers or just for Managing sessions, for instance;
I have about 5 Asterisk Boxes located in different parts of the world, these Asterisk Boxes are connected at any point in time to 3-5 Tier1 carriers, the majority of the these carriers all use Nextone as their session controllers (Which Sux as i hate Nextone), they normally have their own equipment that resides behind the Nextone for Billing, Authentication and generally pass through to the PSTN network (I am putting this in very basic terms i guess).
If you have Asterisk, what i don’t understand is why you would still want to have Nextone there? You are really just adding another point of failure and hop in the Session, if anything it is the sole reason why we did away with our CISCO and Nortel boxes and went straight to Asterisk.
My best advice is for you to get a Nextone engineer (I am not one) and have them remotly configure the Nextone to talk to the Asterisk box as a Peer, this way it just passes through to you all the information you need in order to do what you want to do, and it also works vice-versa as well.
I would help you on that front, but i don’t like Nextone and generally avoid them like a hooker on friday nights.
Cheers,
David.