SIP and softfone configuration

Asterisk Asterisk Support
1

greetings,

i am trying to configurate X-Lite SIP softphones to use with AsteriskNOW.

the sip.conf looks like:

[general]

[326]
type=friend
context=internal
host=172.15.2.54

[327]
type=friend
context=internal
host=172.16.2.194

The extensions.conf is:

[globals]

[general]

[internal]
exten => 326,1,Dial(SIP/326)
exten => 327,1,Dial(SIP/327)

when I try to dial one of the extensions, there is a ‘connecting’ message on phone’s display, and no answer from the other phone.

Asterisk console displays this:
– Executing [327@internal:1] Dial(“SIP/326-082073b8”, “SIP/327|30”) in new stack
– Called 327",

so at least the station sees the caller’s phone.
what else could be wrong?

thanks in advance!

2

[quote=“0x1b”]host=172.15.2.54
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host=172.16.2.194
[/quote]Those IP addresses seem unlikely to me… but you know your own network. However, remember you can instead specify a dynamic address and the softphone will tell Asterisk its IP address when it registers:

That’s how I use X-Lite with Asterisk. In any case I didn’t see a way of telling X-Lite to use a particular IP address, but perhaps you have a different version of X-Lite.

Have you seen the book “Asterisk: The Future of Telephony”? You can download it for more info on this and other aspects of a basic SIP configuration:
digium.com/elqNow/elqRedir.h … 510480.pdf

3

the IPs are from the local intranet.

i’ve tried to use ‘host=dynamic’, but in that case i get the ‘unable to create sip channel’ message from asterisk.

yep, i am reading the book. :smile: the settings i’ve tried to implement were based on ‘configuring the softphones’ chapter, but something has gone wrong.

4

tell xlite to register to asterisk its pretty striaght forward then you dont have to worry about DHCP all that other fun stuff…
try this page on the voip-info wiki
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk%20phone%20xten%20xlite

5

aha, i’ve probably missed the ‘register with domain and receive incoming calls’ checkbox.

but when i turn it on and select either ‘set outbound via domain’, ‘via target domain’, or ‘via proxy’ i get a 403 forbidden error.

probably the empty password causes this?

6

yeah make sure you tell xlite the same passwords as you tell asterisk…

in the sip config for asterisk thats that secret= option

7

everything works now, thanks all. :smile: