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    • N
      norbi771
      last edited by

      Hi,
      Is there any HOWTO for newbie telling how to start using the asterisk on pfsense?
      I installed the package and started it, but there are a lot of config files …

      I am complete newbie in the ASTERISK, I am just a user of PFSense. All VoIP phones I use connect to external VoIP provider, which is not very optimal.
      I would like to test asterisk and maybe in the feature instead of configure my phones to use external provider I would go for having VoIP PBX in my LAN.
      But have no idea where to start.

      Please give me some advice.

      Thanks

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      • F
        Fesoj
        last edited by

        You'll have to deal mostly with sip.conf and extensions.conf, only. Maybe you want to play a bit with modules.conf.

        I'd recommend
        http://www.asteriskdocs.org/en/2nd_Edition/asterisk-book-html-chunk/index.html
        to start with and I'd set up a virtual machine for initial explorations and not use the pfSense package.

        The Asterisk package for pfSense does not really have a GUI, you need to edit the configuration files manually, but the benefit is that this is much more flexible.

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        • R
          routerfreak
          last edited by

          Hi Marcello!
          First of all I want to thank you for this nice pfSense package. I installed it on the latest release of nanoBSD based 64Bit pfSense (embedded on a 4GB USB flash drive).

          Currently 2 sip trunks were configured, asterisk is using the also installed siproxd (package version 1.0.9).

          Although everything is working fine, there are warning messages in the asterisk log:

          [2.2.6-RELEASE][admin@pfsense.sm.art]/root: asterisk -r
Asterisk 1.8.32.1, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2013 Digium, Inc. and others.
Created by Mark Spencer <markster@digium.com>
Asterisk 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.
=========================================================================
Connected to Asterisk 1.8.32.1 currently running on pfsense (pid = 97717)
[Jan 29 17:18:36] WARNING[-1]: acl.c:719 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect
[Jan 29 17:18:36] WARNING[-1]: acl.c:719 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect
[Jan 29 17:26:21] WARNING[-1]: acl.c:719 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect
[Jan 29 17:26:21] WARNING[-1]: acl.c:719 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect
[Jan 29 17:34:07] WARNING[-1]: acl.c:719 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect
[Jan 29 17:34:07] WARNING[-1]: acl.c:719 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect
[Jan 29 17:41:52] WARNING[-1]: acl.c:719 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect
[Jan 29 17:41:52] WARNING[-1]: acl.c:719 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect
[Jan 29 17:49:37] WARNING[-1]: acl.c:719 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect
[Jan 29 17:49:37] WARNING[-1]: acl.c:719 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect
[Jan 29 17:57:22] WARNING[-1]: acl.c:719 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect
[Jan 29 17:57:22] WARNING[-1]: acl.c:719 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect
[Jan 29 18:05:07] WARNING[-1]: acl.c:719 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect
[Jan 29 18:05:07] WARNING[-1]: acl.c:719 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect
[Jan 29 18:12:52] WARNING[-1]: acl.c:719 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect
[Jan 29 18:12:52] WARNING[-1]: acl.c:719 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect
[Jan 29 18:20:37] WARNING[-1]: acl.c:719 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect
[Jan 29 18:20:37] WARNING[-1]: acl.c:719 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect
[Jan 29 18:28:22] WARNING[-1]: acl.c:719 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect
[Jan 29 18:28:22] WARNING[-1]: acl.c:719 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect
pfsense*CLI></markster@digium.com>

          Issue summary:

          • Annoying warning message: WARNING[-1]: acl.c:719 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect

          • Exactly one message every 585 seconds for every configured sip trunk! Very mysterious fact.

          • No IP traffic to & from asterisk during this time! (checked with wireshark and pfsense packet capturing)

          • Is spamming the logfile over the time.

          • Everything else is working perfect: incoming and outgoing calls are ok.

          Does anybody also have this annoying message? Or any hints for me for further debugging? The 585 seconds must be hardcoded anywhere.

          Thanks in advance.

          Router Hardware: Supermicro A1SRi-2758F, 2x Kingston KVR16LSE11-4KF (4GB DDR3L SODIMM-1600 ECC),
          Router OS: pfSense-2.4.3-RELEASE, Packages: Cron 0.3.7_2, Open-VM-Tools 10.1.0, siproxd 1.1.3_3

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          • F
            Fesoj
            last edited by

            ouraddrfor() is related to IP lookup. Unless there are other errors or warnings your warning could be related to a not properly working DNS server configuration.

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            • R
              routerfreak
              last edited by

              Mmmh. This are the only warning message I get from asterisk. DNS is properly configured. But I found a good hint in the net:

              https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2851/

              I use siproxd as my outboundproxy. So outboundproxy is set to my local siproxd. And according to the above review asterisk does not do any DNS resolutions when outboundproxy is set. See the column "dnsmgr":

              Connected to Asterisk 1.8.32.1 currently running on pfsense (pid = 61232)
pfsense*CLI> core reload
[Feb  3 17:36:53] NOTICE[-1]: pbx_lua.c:1530 load_or_reload_lua_stuff: Lua PBX Switch loaded.
[Feb  3 17:36:53] NOTICE[-1]: app_queue.c:6867 reload_queue_rules: queuerules.conf has not changed since it was last loaded. Not taking any action.
[Feb  3 17:36:53] NOTICE[-1]: cel_custom.c:95 load_config: No mappings found in cel_custom.conf. Not logging CEL to custom CSVs.
[Feb  3 17:36:54] WARNING[-1]: acl.c:719 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect
[Feb  3 17:36:54] WARNING[-1]: acl.c:719 ast_ouraddrfor: Cannot connect
pfsense*CLI> sip show registry
Host                                    dnsmgr Username       Refresh State                Reg.Time
proxy.live.sipgate.de:5060              N      9999999e2@si       465 Registered           Wed, 03 Feb 2016 17:36:54
tel.t-online.de:5060                    N      03099999999        465 Registered           Wed, 03 Feb 2016 17:36:54
2 SIP registrations.

              As a test I let asterisk do its register direct without siproxd. Now there are no more "Cannot connect" warnings from ast_outaddrfor and dns resolution is set to "Y":

              pfsense*CLI> core reload
[Feb  3 17:35:45] NOTICE[-1]: pbx_lua.c:1530 load_or_reload_lua_stuff: Lua PBX Switch loaded.
[Feb  3 17:35:45] NOTICE[-1]: app_queue.c:6867 reload_queue_rules: queuerules.conf has not changed since it was last loaded. Not taking any action.
[Feb  3 17:35:45] NOTICE[-1]: cel_custom.c:95 load_config: No mappings found in cel_custom.conf. Not logging CEL to custom CSVs.
pfsense*CLI> sip show registry
Host                                    dnsmgr Username       Refresh State                Reg.Time
proxy.live.sipgate.de:5060              Y      9999999e2@si       465 Registered           Wed, 03 Feb 2016 17:35:46
tel.t-online.de:5060                    Y      03099999999        465 Registered           Wed, 03 Feb 2016 17:35:46
2 SIP registrations.

              I think I have a catch-22 situation. Ok, I can ignore the warnings.

              Has anyone some more ideas?

              Router Hardware: Supermicro A1SRi-2758F, 2x Kingston KVR16LSE11-4KF (4GB DDR3L SODIMM-1600 ECC),
              Router OS: pfSense-2.4.3-RELEASE, Packages: Cron 0.3.7_2, Open-VM-Tools 10.1.0, siproxd 1.1.3_3

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              • D
                daereth
                last edited by

                Hey there, just want to give a big kudos to the package manager after some setup I was able to implement an Asterisk installation in my infrastructure right on my virtualized firewall, thanks for that!

                I do have a small request: is there any way to get the res_srtp module included in a future release? My trunk provider supports SIP w/ TLS + SRTP so you can imagine how invaluable it would be to setup a more secured Asterisk install.

                Cheers!

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                • M
                  matthijs
                  last edited by

                  Hi,

                  Is there a new Asterisk package comming in the near future for the Pfsense 2.3 release ?
                  No asterisk package for Pfsense 2.3 is keeping me from upgrading to this new PFsense version at the moment.

                  Kr,

                  Matthijs

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                  • C
                    carlm
                    last edited by

                    @matthijs:

                    Hi,

                    Is there a new Asterisk package comming in the near future for the Pfsense 2.3 release ?
                    No asterisk package for Pfsense 2.3 is keeping me from upgrading to this new PFsense version at the moment.

                    Kr,

                    Matthijs

                    I have the same question. I'm in the same situation.

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                    • rcfaR
                      rcfa
                      last edited by

                      @carlm:

                      @matthijs:

                      Hi,

                      Is there a new Asterisk package comming in the near future for the Pfsense 2.3 release ?
                      No asterisk package for Pfsense 2.3 is keeping me from upgrading to this new PFsense version at the moment.

                      Kr,

                      Matthijs

                      I have the same question. I'm in the same situation.

                      Probably would require a full redo, particularly since the version of asterisk used by the old packages is, well, old, too.
                      Rather would see freeswitch…

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                      • T
                        tdi
                        last edited by

                        Is anyone working on asterisk for 2.3 ?

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                        • P
                          Pawel
                          last edited by

                          HI, I need a working package asterisk11 or asterisk13 in pfsense 2.3 to work with new GUI.
                          If anyone can help?

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                            Fesoj
                            last edited by

                            There is no such package, but you can install the standard Asterisk packages from the regular FreeBSD 10.3 repository.

                            Due to the complexity and diversity of Asterisk's configuration, a GUI might not really be helpful. A simple GUI always implies some assumptions on the usage of Asterisk.

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                            • kklouzalK
                              kklouzal
                              last edited by

                              I agree, aside from giving the user multiple large text boxes for them to hand craft their particular needs out it would be very difficult to create a generic web gui for configuration. I'm not opposed to large text boxes though ;)

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                              • P
                                Pawel
                                last edited by

                                Thanks for reply.

                                I install the standard Asterisk packages from the regular FreeBSD 10.3 repository:

                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/gsm-1.0.13_2.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/libpri-1.4.15.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/mpfr-3.1.4.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/mpc-1.0.3.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/gcc-4.8.5_2.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/binutils-2.25.1_3,1.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/release_3/All/gcc-ecj-4.5.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/gcc-4.8.5_2.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/openr2-1.3.3.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/postgresql93-client-9.3.13_2.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/sqlite-2.8.17_3.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/mpg123-1.23.6.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/png-1.6.23.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/libslang2-2.3.0.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/newt-0.52.19.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/dahdi-2.4.0rc5_6.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/e2fsprogs-libuuid-1.43.1_1.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/lua51-5.1.5_9.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/jansson-2.7_3.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/libgpg-error-1.24.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/libgcrypt-1.7.2.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/freetds-1.00.1,1.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/libogg-1.3.2_1,4.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/libvorbis-1.3.5,3.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/mysql56-client-5.6.30.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/speexdsp-1.2.r3_1.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/speex-1.2.r2,1.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/radiusclient-0.5.6_3.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/libtasn1-4.9.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/tpm-emulator-0.7.4_1.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/trousers-0.3.13.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/p11-kit-0.23.2.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/gnutls-3.4.14.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/iksemel-1.4_7.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/portaudio-19.20140130_5.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/pjsip-2.5.1_1.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/jbigkit-2.1_1.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/jpeg-turbo-1.4.2.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/tiff-4.0.6_2.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/spandsp-0.0.6.txz
                                pkg add http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:32/latest/All/asterisk13-13.10.0.txz

                                nano /etc/rc.conf
                                asterisk_enable="YES"

                                REBOOT SYSTEM

                                Asterisk work perfectly.
                                I connect Telephone and Intercom, voices work.

                                Now I'm working on a simple GUI to pfSense 2.3 and config editor to more configuration.
                                In attachment first screen from work.

                                One question, how to add asterisk to autostart on pfsense?

                                ast.png
                                ast.png_thumb

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                                  Fesoj
                                  last edited by 

                                  asterisk_enable="YES"

                                  This does not work as expected. A simple method to autostart Asterisk is to install the package "shellcmd" and add an entry for Asterisk.

                                  PS: I am also working on a GUI interface. Currently I am exploring the ARI interface to see what could make sense inside pfSense.

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                                    dj_mistral
                                    last edited by

                                    Ok, I managed to install all required packages. And also installed shellcmd pfSense-package.
                                    What is the correct command for Shellcmd to start Asterisk13 on boot ?

                                    Ps. Thanks for all the info so far !! Nice topic !

                                    EDIT:

                                    on the command "asterisk -vvvgc" I get:

                                    Asterisk 13.16.0, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2014, Digium, Inc. and others.
Created by Mark Spencer <markster@digium.com>
Asterisk 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.
=========================================================================
[ Initializing Custom Configuration Options ]
  == Parsing '/usr/local/etc/asterisk/extconfig.conf': Found
  == Parsing '/usr/local/etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf': Found
XSLT support not found. XML documentation may be incomplete.
Unable to open Asterisk database '/var/db/asterisk/astdb.sqlite3': unable to open database file
ASTdb initialization failed.  ASTERISK EXITING!</markster@digium.com>
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                                      Fesoj
                                      last edited by

                                      A simple shellcmd would be```
                                      /usr/local/sbin/asterisk -Uasterisk -F

                                      
When you power down the router, Asterisk gets killed. Depending on what else Asterisk is doing, this can be a problem. You might want to consider a traditional shell script as described here: [https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Executing_commands_at_boot_time](https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Executing_commands_at_boot_time)
If you use the standard BSD script, it comes with a start and stop option.

If you initially start Asterisk as root and later with restricted rights, then a couple of files and directories may not be accessible anymore. Please check astdb.sqlite3\. It should be owned by asterisk and group asterisk. Otherwise, chown.

You need to check all the other working dirs of Asterisk and adjust the ownerships, if necessary. The dirs are listed in asterisk.conf.

Hope this helps for now…
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                                      • marcellocM
                                        marcelloc
                                        last edited by

                                        @Pawel:

                                        Now I'm working on a simple GUI to pfSense 2.3 and config editor to more configuration.
                                        In attachment first screen from work.

                                        I can help you creating a gui package for that. Keep binaries install under bsd repository and gui package on my Unofficial package repo.

                                        https://github.com/marcelloc/Unofficial-pfSense-packages

                                        Treinamentos de Elite: http://sys-squad.com

                                        Help a community developer! ;D

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                                          brtech
                                          last edited by

                                          Is anybody currently running asterisk on pfsense, if so, which package have you used?

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