Asterisk ON pfSense2.0.1

robi

Thanks marcelloc, I'll try your bins too.

Meanwhile, did anybody try this nice little AsteriskGUI from FIVN?
http://www.fivn.com/products/asterisk.html

It runs on basic routers with dd-wrt, so I guess it shouldn't have any problems with a full-blown pfSense…

robi

No success >:(

/etc/rc.conf_mount_rw

pkg_add -r  http://e-sac.siteseguro.ws/packages/8/All/asterisk18-1.8.8.1.tbz

I got various errors:

/var: write failed, filesystem is full
lib/perl5/5.12.4/unicore/mktables.lst: Seek failed
...
lib/perl5/5.12.4/warnings/register.pm: Seek failed
tar: (Empty error message)
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
 Done.
...
tar: lib/perl5/5.12.4/warnings/register.pm: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
Removing stale symlinks from /usr/bin...
    Skipping /usr/bin/perl
    Skipping /usr/bin/perl5
Done.
...
WARNING: Failed to create /usr/local/etc/sasldb2

etc…

Disk usage was at 10% on Dashboard when first errors came up. At finish 16%, and no /usr/local/etc/rc.d/asterisk....

Any ideas?

robi

df -h:

Filesystem           Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ufs/pfsense0    1.8G    266M    1.4G    16%    /
devfs                1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
/dev/md0              38M     92K     35M     0%    /tmp
/dev/md1              58M    7.8M     45M    15%    /var
/dev/ufs/cf           49M    452K     45M     1%    /cf
devfs                1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /var/dhcpd/dev

thus I don't understand the message /var: write failed, filesystem is full

marcelloc

There is a post in forum that jimp explains how to fix this smal partition used during package install, I'll try to find it and post here.

Here is the post:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,44953.msg234429.html#msg234429

shortcut to solution:

/etc/rc.conf_mount_rw
setenv PKG_TMPDIR /root/
pkg_add -r http://e-sac.siteseguro.ws/packages/8/All/asterisk18-1.8.8.1.tbz
/etc/rc.conf_mount_ro

Also, I think this topic should be moved to packages.

robi

Thanks, I found it myself, and it seems to install fine now! I'm going on with config tests…

robi

Alright! It installed smoothly.

Next question is, how to make it start at boot?

adding 'asterisk_enable="YES"' to the the /etc/rc.conf.local (or /etc/defaults/rc.conf) doesn't start it at boot.
(copied /usr/local/etc/rc.d/asterisk to /etc/rc.d/asterisk.sh)

marcelloc

Edit startup script and change values from NO to YES. :)

robi

Which startup script?

/etc/rc.conf.local <-doesn't work
/etc/rc.conf <-gets deleted every time I reboot

marcelloc

asterisk script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/asterisk

Reference:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,2996.0.html

robi

Cool, thanks.

I'm used to debian… :-\

marcelloc

Can you test and feedback if asterisk is working with no issues like one-way-audio?

robi

I'm on to it. But before that, I notice stupid errors like this:

[Jan 25 14:45:34] WARNING[22801]: db.c:115 dbinit: Unable to open Asterisk database '/var/db/asterisk/astdb': No such file or directory
[Jan 25 14:45:34] WARNING[22801]: db.c:592 ast_db_gettree: Database unavailable
[Jan 25 14:45:35] WARNING[22801]: db.c:115 dbinit: Unable to open Asterisk database '/var/db/asterisk/astdb': No such file or directory
[Jan 25 14:45:35] WARNING[22801]: db.c:592 ast_db_gettree: Database unavailable
[Jan 25 14:45:35] WARNING[22801]: pbx_spool.c:772 load_module: Unable to create queue directory /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing -- outgoing spool disabled
[Jan 25 14:45:35] WARNING[22801]: db.c:115 dbinit: Unable to open Asterisk database '/var/db/asterisk/astdb': No such file or directory
[Jan 25 14:45:35] WARNING[22801]: db.c:115 dbinit: Unable to open Asterisk database '/var/db/asterisk/astdb': No such file or directory
[Jan 25 14:45:35] WARNING[22801]: db.c:115 dbinit: Unable to open Asterisk database '/var/db/asterisk/astdb': No such file or directory
[Jan 25 14:45:35] WARNING[22801]: db.c:115 dbinit: Unable to open Asterisk database '/var/db/asterisk/astdb': No such file or directory
[Jan 25 14:45:35] WARNING[22801]: db.c:592 ast_db_gettree: Database unavailable
[Jan 25 14:45:35] WARNING[22801]: db.c:115 dbinit: Unable to open Asterisk database '/var/db/asterisk/astdb': No such file or directory
[Jan 25 14:45:35] WARNING[22801]: db.c:592 ast_db_gettree: Database unavailable

Is there any way to disable astdb… I'm using v1.4 in production, that one doesn't have this problem. I need to hunt this down before any further testing.

Remember, I'm on nanobsd...

marcelloc

/var is flushed every boot, it's on ram.

You need to change db file location to /usr for example.

robi

@marcelloc:

You need to change db file location to /usr for example.

But that's read-only at run-time, isn't it? On nanoBsd.

marcelloc

Yes, it is.

You will have to find a way to create or copy/backup db on asterisk startup and shutdown

robi

Since my asterisk setup is quite simple, no database used really, I redirected everything that needs to be written to /tmp, don't mind if that's lost at reboot. Hope that workaround will be suitable.

robi

I didn't bind Asterisk to any interface. It binds to all, so no firewall settings are required at all.

Phones connect through LAN, telco providers connect through WAN. Asterisk itself routes the SIP/RTP traffic.

marcelloc

So, It's working as expected(sip gateway/proxy/server) with no audio issues?

robi

@marcelloc:

So, It's working as expected(sip gateway/proxy/server) with no audio issues?

Running with no issues so far for 4 days:

gateway/router/nat
OpenVPN server and client simultaneously
asterisk

I also plan running Snort, but I need to upgrade RAM on the box first…

robi

I wrote a small php status page integrating in pfSense's webGUI, for anyone interested.