Not able to register my ekiga softphone in asterisk

Asterisk Asterisk General
1

I’ve just installed asterisk on ubuntu, and after configuring the sip.conf and the extensions.conf files, I setup ekiga to with the ip address of my asterisk pbx and is not registering… my asterisk is an internal ip address and here’s the sip.conf file

[code][general]
port = 5060
bindaddr = 0.0.0.0
context = others

[2000]
type=friend
context=my-phones
secret=1234
host=dynamic

[2001]
type=friend
context=my-phones
secret=1234
host=dynamic[/code]

and this is the extensions.conf

[code][others]

[my-phones]
exten => 2000,1,Dial(SIP/2000)
exten => 2001,1,Dial(SIP/2001)
[/code]

when connecting with ekiga I use:
username: 2000
password:1234
registrar: the ip address of my asterisk

any help appreciated

thanks

2

well now when I run ekiga from the same box as my asterisk pbx I get this error

 -- Starting Skinny session from 127.0.0.1
[Apr 15 03:08:17] WARNING[22611]: chan_skinny.c:4387 get_input: read() returned error: Connection reset by peer
[Apr 15 03:08:17] NOTICE[22611]: chan_skinny.c:4484 skinny_session: Skinny Session returned: Connection reset by peer

hope that means something …

3

well I’ve tried two different softphones ( egika, and x-lite) none are connection or registering…I’ve noticed that my asterisk box is running on port 2000 is that the port in which the clients connect to asterisk?

thanks

4

No, the sip signalling port is udp 5060, use the * cli command “sip set debug” to check if the phones are sending the sip messages to register themself.

Cheers.

Marco Bruni

5

how can I change the port on which asterisk listen for connection…

6

In sip.conf, section “general”, check the value of the parameter “bindport”.

Cheers.

Marco Bruni

7

yes the bindport is set to 5060, but I ran nmap against the local machine and no udp port is listening on 5060 here’s the output

[code]jorge@ubuntu-box:~$ sudo nmap -sU -p 5000-5100 localhost

Starting Nmap 4.53 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2008-04-15 12:28 EDT
All 101 scanned ports on localhost (127.0.0.1) are closed

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.123 seconds
[/code]

any help appreciated

thanks
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8

well I finally got asterisk to listen on port 5060:

[code]jorge@ubuntu-box:~$ sudo nmap -sU -p 5000-5100 localhost
[sudo] password for jorge:

Starting Nmap 4.53 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2008-04-15 14:14 EDT
Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1):
Not shown: 100 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
5060/udp open|filtered sip
[/code]
and the reason been is that I think it was b/c I had a softphone installed on the same box, and probably the ports were conflicting… “I think”, after I uninstalled ekiga, and restarted asterisk all my softphone from other pc were able to connect I could be wrong… please correct me if that’s the case.
I would like to have some sort of softphone installed on the same machine as my asterisk box… .how could I change the port on which the softphone like ekiga or other is listening for connection?

thanks
pcteckonline.org

9

You’re right, the 5060 udp port is the default for Ekiga too and there is a conflict with Asterisk, so one of them has to use a different port when on the same box.
I checked the Ekiga installed on my box and seems there is no way to change the sip listening port.

Cheers.

Marco Bruni

10

On linux port can be changed by launching the gconf-editor and going to
apps->ekiga->protocols->sip and change the listenport value from 5060 to whatever you want.