[TriLUG] Suggested Asterisk voip setup

[Jason White]

* Hadrian Zbarcea (hzbarcea at gmail.com) [090129 15:18]:

> I saw good reviews for trixbox.  It just moved to the top of my list :).
 
I've heard not-so-good reviews on trixbox, so I'm using "PBX in a
Flash", which bundles in FreePBX, and love it so far.   It's a CentOS
v5 iso, and I have it running as a Xen guest under my Debian Etch
dom0.   My Asterisk server is  behind an iptables firewall (another
domU), and NAT works fine, assuming you port-forward SIP and RTP.
(Hint: only allow incoming SIP traffic from your provider(s))

Also, since I only have a single VoIP line (Broadvoice), I grabbed a
Grandstream HT-286 (~$30) to turn my analog phones into Asterisk
extensions.  

Using the Ekiga (GNOME) softphone as another Asterisk extension,
usually connected to my Jabra bluetooth headset (connected via a
lovely little micro USB dongle[1]).

For me, Asterisk is/was a fun (and cost effective) project for my home
office, and once you get all the kinks worked out, it has a very high
wife approvoval factor!  I just wish my $work PBX had a fraction of
the features...

Jason

1. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833242001