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    Asterisk ON pfSense2.0.1

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    • R
      robi
      last edited by

      Same disclaimer as the post based on whick I'm trying to make it work: "Yes, a firewall is meant to ..firewall and nothing more. Agreed. Now pfSense is - also - about having fun and the IT security eng. in me is not that much shocked (IF configuration is done properly) about what we'll discuss here. Don't get mad."

      So I'm trying to install asterisk based on the steps described here: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,41397.0.html
      I'm also using a nanoBsd version, on a 4GB CF card.

      Here's what I did so far:
      login with SSG, press 8 for shell, then:

      /etc/rc.conf_mount_rw

      For some reason I get stuck at step a.). (as described in the above linked post)

      pkg_add -vr asterisk

      fails, because "No such file or directory". Tried```
      pkg_add -vr asterisk18

      
Noticed that it pkg_add was looking in 8.2 repository, so I changed with this:

      setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/packages/

      but still no luck…

Tried```
pkg_add -vr asterisk-1.4.29_4

      this one seemed to install, but when going on to step b.), can't seem to find any /usr/local/etc/rc.d/asterisk file to rename. During installation porcess I've seen many "seek failed" messages - but can't say which files were affected, because shell scrolled quickly.

      Can you give me any hints please.

      Many thanks in advance.

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      • B
        blietaer
        last edited by

        Hey!

        I am glad to help!
        Still using this configuration, and it just rocks (for 6 IP phones and 2 analog/ATA)  :-*

        Yes, the PACKAGESITE is by default wrong: I'll find it back for you.  :-\

        My post is blocked?  ;D
        Is it because of the lamer intervention?
          ???

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        • marcellocM
          marcelloc
          last edited by

          Try from my repo, I've compiled asterisk 1.8.8.1 to run on pfsense.

          amd64
          pkg_add -r http://e-sac.siteseguro.ws/packages/amd64/8/All/asterisk18-1.8.8.1.tbz

          i386
          pkg_add -r  http://e-sac.siteseguro.ws/packages/8/All/asterisk18-1.8.8.1.tbz

          to fix PACKAGESITE var to use 8.1 package repo, use

          amd64
          setenv PACKAGESITE "http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/amd64/packages-8.1-release/Latest/"

          i386
          setenv PACKAGESITE "http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/"

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          • R
            robi
            last edited by

            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…

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            • R
              robi
              last edited by

              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?

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              • R
                robi
                last edited by

                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

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                • marcellocM
                  marcelloc
                  last edited by

                  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.

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                  • R
                    robi
                    last edited by

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

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                    • R
                      robi
                      last edited by

                      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)

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                      • marcellocM
                        marcelloc
                        last edited by

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

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                        • R
                          robi
                          last edited by

                          Which startup script?

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

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                          • marcellocM
                            marcelloc
                            last edited by

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

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

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                            • R
                              robi
                              last edited by

                              Cool, thanks.

                              I'm used to debian…  :-\

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                              • marcellocM
                                marcelloc
                                last edited by

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

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                                • R
                                  robi
                                  last edited by

                                  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...

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                                  • marcellocM
                                    marcelloc
                                    last edited by

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

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

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                                    • R
                                      robi
                                      last edited by

                                      @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.

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                                      • marcellocM
                                        marcelloc
                                        last edited by

                                        Yes, it is.

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

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                                        • R
                                          robi
                                          last edited by

                                          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.

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                                          • R
                                            robi
                                            last edited by

                                            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.

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