Asterisk 1.8 package

tom_o

Hello,
a newbie question…

I'm yet another cheapskate with a TDM400P PCI analog telephony card doing 'nowt in an old box...and wondering if the zaptel/DHADI route (even with the apparent echo issues...) is worth pursuing and how to get some stable drivers to try on a production box (I know!!).

I've been looking around
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/FreeBSD%20zaptel looked interesting but seems a dead end...

The card is recognised by pciconf -lv :
none2@pci0:1:8:0: class=0x078000 card=0x0003b100 chip=0x0001e159 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Tiger Jet Network Inc'
device = 'Multiple devices use this ID: General Purpose I/O Controller'
class = simple comms

but doesn't show up in dmesg

Is there hope? or is it (very likely) easier to erm... Ubuntu it?

Any pointers very welcome ;D

marcelloc

To run asterisk cards on freebsd will need it drivers and dahdi. I do not recomend it on pfsense.

tom_o

@marcelloc:

To run asterisk cards on freebsd will need it drivers and dahdi. I do not recomend it on pfsense.

marcelloc
Thanks - I had to ask the question… there seems to have been some activity - but quite a while ago and the hardware has moved on.

I guess I'll try a Draytech VoIP router to handle analog and see how I get on with that.... TDM400P >=ebay

muchacha_grande

Have a little question that may become big.

I'm running pfSense 2.1 beta1 and installed Asterisk package.

I can see the Asterisk page in the status menu and the service running in the services status page. So I'm assuming that the package is working, at least for now.

But in the main Asterisk page it enumerates these directories:

Directories
–-----------
Configuration file:
Configuration directory: /usr/pbi/asterisk-i386/etc/asterisk
Module directory: /usr/pbi/asterisk-i386/lib/asterisk/modules
Spool directory: /usr/pbi/asterisk-i386/var/spool/asterisk
Log directory: /usr/pbi/asterisk-i386/var/log/asterisk
Run/Sockets directory: /usr/pbi/asterisk-i386/var/run/asterisk
PID file: /usr/pbi/asterisk-i386/var/run/asterisk/asterisk.pid
VarLib directory: /usr/pbi/asterisk-i386/share/asterisk
Data directory: /usr/pbi/asterisk-i386/share/asterisk
ASTDB: /usr/pbi/asterisk-i386/var/db/asterisk/astdb
IAX2 Keys directory: /usr/pbi/asterisk-i386/share/asterisk/keys
AGI Scripts directory: /usr/pbi/asterisk-i386/share/asterisk/agi-bin

Are they alright or I have to move them to another place before configuring Asterisk?

I think that they should be pointing to other places.

marcelloc

@muchacha_grande:

Are they alright or I have to move them to another place before configuring Asterisk?

Yes, pfsense 2.1 installs packages under /usr/pbi

muchacha_grande

Hi, I've recently installed Asterisk package on pfSense 2.1 beta1 and made it work with a little config.
But I can't see logs or calls on the status interface. May be is not correctly installed.

Thank you…

marcelloc

I did not checked asterisk package on 2.1.

Maybe it's looking for logs on the wrong folder.

check if there are logs in /usr/pbi/asterisk-xx/var folder

muchacha_grande

Yes, they are there…

More precisely in /usr/pbi/asterisk-i386/var/log/asterisk/

marcelloc

@muchacha_grande:

Yes, they are there…

More precisely in /usr/pbi/asterisk-i386/var/log/asterisk/

try to create a symlink to /var/log/asterisk

muchacha_grande

I'd modified the paths of the PHPs. They are hardcoded for version 2.0.

Thank you very much…

muchacha_grande

Hi again,

finally with an Asterisk up and running on pfSense 2.1 beta1.

I'm trying to enable fax sending and receiving with res_fax.so and res_fax_digium.so.

I've already registered my box with Digium's register method explained in Digiums site but theres a lib missing when I do module load res_fax_digium.so.

Here is the output:

Asterisk 1.8.19.0, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2012 Digium, Inc. and others.
Created by Mark Spencer markster@digium.comAsterisk comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type 'core show warranty' for details.
This is free software, with components licensed under the GNU General Public
License version 2 and other licenses; you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain conditions. Type 'core show license' for details.

== Parsing '/usr/pbi/asterisk-i386/etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf': == Found
== Parsing '/usr/pbi/asterisk-i386/etc/asterisk/extconfig.conf': == Found
Connected to Asterisk 1.8.19.0 currently running on pfsense (pid = 6011)
Verbosity is at least 3
pfsenseCLI> module load res_fax_digium.so Unable to load module res_fax_digium.so
Command 'module load res_fax_digium.so' failed.
[Feb 7 21:26:58] WARNING[6011]: loader.c:409 load_dynamic_module: Error loading module 'res_fax_digium.so': Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by "res_fax_digium.so"
[Feb 7 21:26:58] WARNING[6011]: loader.c:874 load_resource: Module 'res_fax_digium.so' could not be loaded.
pfsenseCLI>

There in no comments about this at Digium's site.

Does anyone succeded on making fax module work on pfSense?

Thanks…/markster@digium.com

whitewater

Hello,
I'm testing asterisk on pfsense since some weeks. It's very stable :)
Thank you for this great work !

I have 3 pfsense with an IPSEC vpn :
site A : 192.168.1.0
site B : 192.168.2.0 - with an pika warp / freepbx asterisk
site C : 192.168.3.0 - with your package asterisk on pfsense.

I would like to connect from site A to site C with a SIP client. Test with zoiper.

zoiper site A to asterisk site B : ok. it works :)
zoiper site A to asterisk pfsense site C : ko. it doesn't works :(

On states pfsense, of the site A & C, i have :
NO_TRAFFIC:SINGLE

IPSEC VPN rules are corrects. * for all settings.
what should i do ?
thank you :)

erespejel

I see the asterisk gui, but the user and password do not work, edit manager.conf and nothing

robi

I see that the GUI of the package needs some work to be compatible to 2.1. I'll soon post the necessary modifications.

robi

Is there a place where I could push the modifications needed for this plugin to work with 2.1? Like GitGub, etc…?

robi

I've just modified my config file editor page, with complete backup and restore options.

I've also optimized the installation to properly run on NanoBSD systems. I'm going to update them accordingly at https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense-packages/tree/master/config/asterisk

asterisk_edit_file.png_thumb

corotte

Hi,

this post refer to i thread i started because this the GUI was not working properly on PfSense 2.1 release
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=66660.0

i find out at the moment that two file of the GUI need to be modified to point to the new location for the package:

asterisk_calls.php
path need to be modified to :
"/usr/pbi/asterisk-amd64/var/log/asterisk/cdr-csv/Master.csv"
or
"/usr/pbi/asterisk-i386/var/log/asterisk/cdr-csv/Master.csv"
depending of architecture instead of :
"/var/log/asterisk/cdr-csv/Master.csv"

asterisk_log.php
path need to be modified to :
"/usr/pbi/asterisk-amd64/var/log/asterisk/messages"
or
"/usr/pbi/asterisk-i386/var/log/asterisk/messages"
depending of architecture instead of :
"/var/log/asterisk/messages"

for edit config file, the new path is "/usr/pbi/asterisk-amd64/etc/asterisk" for the config file

i don't know where to go to do the modification or if someone have to do it at my place (never did it before) but this make the package working on PfSense 2.1 . It is working flawlessly for me for the moment but i have to mod the php file each time an update is done on the package.

robi

Work is in progress just now with modifications to address these issues.

Actually paths will be corrected on the file system to point to writable locations (as /usr/pbi/…. is not writable on NanoBSD), symlinks will be used and Asterisk configuration files will be updated accordingly on first install.

Please be patient, soon the update will be available in the packages list.

robi

Package update v0.3 should be online soon.

If you already installed asterisk package on v2.1, I suggest to start from scratch by creating a fresh install of pfSense, or at least uninstall the complete Asterisk package, remove these directories by hand, reboot and reinstall Asterisk package:

Spool directory:             /var/spool/asterisk
Log directory:               /var/log/asterisk
Run/Sockets directory:       /var/run/asterisk
ASTDB:                       /var/db/asterisk/astdb

robi

Note to users upgrading from pfSense v2.0.x:

Asterisk package was converted to PBI, thus the system file locations for it have been changed. That means that the asterisk.conf file on the 2.0.x and 2.1 will have different [directories] sections. Please revise the directory paths on the fresh install of Asterisk on v2.1, and correct them manually before restoring the configuration from 2.0.x.

On simpler scenarios, where only SIP protocol is used, the first approach to upgrade Asterisk would be to actually install it fresh on a v2.1 box, and replace sip.conf and extensions.conf files with the previous ones. All the other config files can be left in their default state if you didn't modify them earlier.