Thanks David. Yes I have looked at the Acrobits softphone recently but its still the same issue of how to register securely to your Astlinux box without using VPN.
Regards Michael Knill From: David Kerr <da...@kerr.net> Reply to: AstLinux List <astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Date: Tuesday, 9 June 2020 at 9:18 pm To: AstLinux List <astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Losing business because no soft phone apps I use Acrobits softphone on my iPhone which works well for me (though I do not use it very much). https://apps.apple.com/us/app/acrobits-softphone/id314192799 and they will do a white-label for you to brand yourself. And in the past I have used Zoiper on desktop, though I have not tried it in a long time. David On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 6:04 AM Michael Keuter <li...@mksolutions.info<mailto:li...@mksolutions.info>> wrote: > Am 09.06.2020 um 12:00 schrieb Michael Knill > <michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au<mailto:michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au>>: > > Hi Michael > > Yes I have used Bria with Wireguard on iPhone and it works great while its in > the foreground. > Push notifications are the only option to wake up the application from the > background which don't work if you are using VPN. > > Regards > Michael Knill But this behavior is dependend on the smartphones operating system, right? Does the 3CX smartphone app behave different? > On 9/6/20, 7:08 pm, "Michael Keuter" > <li...@mksolutions.info<mailto:li...@mksolutions.info>> wrote: > > > >> Am 09.06.2020 um 10:04 schrieb Michael Knill >> <michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au<mailto:michael.kn...@ipcsolutions.com.au>>: >> >> Hi Group >> >> Well although we are coping fine during COVID-19 and haven’t really lost any >> business yet, its now only a matter of time that we will. >> I'm getting increased pressure from clients that they need simple remote >> working solutions for both desktop and smartphone as they are suspecting the >> new norm will not be everyone sitting in the office with a phone on their >> desk. >> >> In the light of this, I am struggling to build something for an standard >> Asterisk based system that's going to be moderately secure. Yes OpenVPN from >> Yealink phones is awesome but its not a mobile solution and people are sick >> of bringing phones into the office and back home. >> >> 3CX has a nice remote client and it looks like I'm going to lose at least >> one customer to this product. Its easy to set up and appears to do it more >> securely via a tunnelling protocol. >> Bria is great but I just don't know how to secure it other than using a VPN. >> >> Does anyone have any ideas before I start using 3CX to keep business? >> >> Regards >> >> Michael Knill > > Hi Michael, > > I just looked into the 3CX Windows softphone. You are right, they are > using a special proprietary tunnel protocol to their own SBC on port 5090. > > https://www.3cx.com/docs/3cx-tunnel-session-border-controller/ > > https://www.3cx.com/docs/3cx-sbc-raspberry-pi/ > > But it seems everyone is using the same Tunnel password (no user > authentiation for the tunnel!). So if one user is hacked or lost its device, > then you would need to reconfigure the tunnel with a new password for all > users. I personally would not want this, but I don't know the exact details > of the tunnel. > > You can do the same, but much safer with OpenVPN or WireGuard. It's a bit > more work to setup the client on each device. WireGuard works fine on mobile > phones. > > Otherwise you just use SIP over TLS with SRTP without a VPN. > > Michael > > http://www.mksolutions.info > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > pay...@krisk.org<mailto:pay...@krisk.org>. > > > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > pay...@krisk.org<mailto:pay...@krisk.org>. Michael http://www.mksolutions.info _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org<mailto:pay...@krisk.org>.
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