Kenneth Burgener wrote: > Do you think there is a > possibility that BroadVoice would give me the admin password to their > hardware?
I imagine not, because that's their lock-in strategy. I used a SunRocket gizmo for a week, and it turns out they were pretty cunning: - The default configuration (after you push the reset button) is not functional and only retrieves a replacement configuration from a URL. - The configuration information was encrypted using RC4 with a secret key, probably involving the device's serial number. - Once configured, the device hid the configuration from me. - Although I could gain administrator access by pushing the reset button while shielding the device from the Internet, I could not find out my SIP password to register with SunRocket. I returned the gizmo right away after discovering that SunRocket sees its customers as adversaries. I imagine BroadVoice does similar tricks. > 1. The firewall box was the oldest box I had laying around, so it isn't > beefy. Doesn't the audio encoding consume quite a bit of processing > power? (That is if I can solve #3) I don't think so. When I run a conference call with 4 participants on Asterisk, it has to decode and encode a stream for each of the 4 connections, yet the whole conference consumes a whopping 2% of the CPU. The CPU is an AMD64 3000. > 2. The Sipura ATA required ZERO configuration to get my analog phones to > just work. The asterisk box will require configuring and tuning. > (Which is more of an inconvenience than a problem) Very true. Asterisk has its own configuration language that you'd have to decipher. OTOH, it's surprisingly fun to play with phones, like making your telephone answer with an official-sounding "Nobody here but us chickens." Also, Asterisk is a good way to tap into incredibly inexpensive VOIP options such as: http://icall.com/carriers/ http://les.net Your best option right now is probably to dig in with tcpdump / wireshark and see the SIP messages directly. Note that SIP looks a lot like HTTP, so it's easy to read. Once you're armed with the SIP headers, you'll be able to ask the right questions on the Shorewall mailing lists. Shane /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
