Thanks Lloyd, I think I might go this route to try it out. Do all Snom phones have VPN / PPTP / OpenVPN functionality built in? Or only specific models... their site implies all, but the product brochure indicates only the 370 model.
Chuck From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lloyd Aloysius Sent: September-08-11 10:36 PM To: Chuck Mariotti Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] Any Recommendations for Remote Phones via VPN Hi Chuck, 1. Yealink and Snom Phones are support OpenVPN. So you can enable the Open VPN in pfsense and connect the phone directly using open vpn. 2. Simple way Asterisk Box - Ethernet 1 - LAN Asterisk Box - Ethernet 2 - WAN - Assign a public IP address to the Asterisk server. This solves all the problems. But you have to secure the Asterisk with IP Tables & Fail2Ban. I use this way all the time . Some of my first servers running this way last 4 years with asterisk 1.2 :) Thanks and regards, Lloyd Aloysius SunTel Technologies Inc. www.SunTelTech.ca<http://www.sunteltech.ca/> [http://www.sunteltech.ca/images/socialmedia/twitter.png] <http://twitter.com/#!/sunteltech> [http://www.sunteltech.ca/images/socialmedia/facebook.png] <http://www.facebook.com/SunTelTechnologies> [http://www.sunteltech.ca/images/socialmedia/blog.png] <http://www.sunteltech.ca/blog/> t. +1-416-479-0505 x 203 e. [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Business Phone System | Hosted PBX | IT Support | VoIP Solutions | Cloud Services On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Chuck Mariotti <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I have inherited a couple of clients that are running remote SIP phones by opening up a port (not 5060) and running SIP across it. Their Asterisk boxes are behind a pfSense 2.0 machine that has PPTP currently enabled for remote computers. They have a need for more remote users, so I'm thinking maybe it's a good idea to change this now, rather than later. How are people setting up remote phones? It would seem to me that having a remote router (DD-WRT or other?) that connects to pfSense via VPN (any suggestions or documents on how to do this). I was going to look to see what phones have VPN capabilities built-in (recommendations?). I was leaning to the DD-WRT side but have concerns about detailed instructions on how to set this up with pfSense AND QOS issues (if there are other computers using the internet connection, not via the DD-WRT router). Regards, Chuck Mariotti 13 Seymour Ave. Toronto, Ontario M4J 3T3 Office: 416-469-5008 x 222<tel:416-469-5008%20x%20222> Fax: 416-469-5009<tel:416-469-5009> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> www.xunity.com<http://www.xunity.com/>
