Manoj Menon wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I am in the habit of having long conversations with
> my folks, on Yahoo, MSN, Skype etc. Strictly voice.
>
> But recently, I've been planning to roll out my own
> VoIP server (I am not even sure I am using the right
> terminology). I have an Al Shamil connection and use
> OpenSuse 10.0 / Fedora Core 4.
>
> I dont mind 'RTFM'ing, but I am not sure where to
> start. Is Asterisk the right product, for me, or is it
> only meant to replace an office PABX ?
>
> Will I be able to get it to work along with a dynamic
> DNS solution like no-ip ?
If I you are doing what I suspect you are doing, then Asterisk is a relatively
easy start.
You *might* find oddities with Etisalat blocking SIP or h323 however.
I have a friend who was using SIP until recently to a public SIP server, and
her connection just
randomly stops working now..
What I did (which is relatively arse about but there are reasons for that -
although not good ones
anymore) is install a box at my parents place running Ubuntu (it's what I had
handy, it did start
life as Knoppix) and I installed asterisk on that.
They connect to it locally using a windows based sip client.
It connects to my laptop over an OpenVPN tunnel. So no matter where I am, it
can connect to me. And
we just SIP-Asterisk-SIP and chat away.
I had to do it this way as I needed an auditable, secure network.
Now knowing what I do about OpenVPN and Windows, I would have installed my
Asterisk server locally
and given them a Windows OpenVPN client to connect their laptop directly to my
server here.
This way your traffic is secure and encapsulated away from the prying filtering
proxies.
Anyway, for a basic SIP system, Asterisk is pretty easy to configure and test
(I'm quite happy with
it) if you just read the howto's on the net and use sane sip clients. OpenVPN
makes it dead easy as
then all your endpoints have static IP addresses.
I use dyndns.org for my local server, and all the remote nodes just dial into
that. Makes it
trivially easy.
>
> PS: I've already downloaded 'Asterisk - The future of
> Telephony' from O'rielly, and will start reading it,
> when I can get my stupid all-in-one
> copier/printer/coffee-machine to work with cups. ;-)
If you can get the coffee-machine to churn out something tasting marginally
better than the usual
gunk they pass off as coffee in your average Dubai office, let me know the
model number ;)
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