Comments on: Quick & Easy: Configuring Remote Phone Access to an Asterisk PBX

By: Remote Access

Remote Access — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:49:03 +0000

This is a little bit off-topic but you just gave me an excellent idea..I am thinking that I can use remote access to log into one of the computers on my network that is all loaded up with VoIP software, and still use my own computer to make the calls..I was kind of handcuffed by hardware issues before but this just might do the trick!

By: Chris H.

Chris H. — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:41:15 +0000

Just got my first iaxy and stumbled upon this windows utility that automates the provisioning process. you can even save configurations and reload them as needed. Awesome stuff.

http://dacosta.dynip.com/asterisk/

Anybody know if the iaxy will support dynamic dns in the future?

By: Etienne Goyer

Etienne Goyer — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:21:15 +0000

Digium have switched to using Subversion instead of CVS, and have updated the hostname where to get the code from. This is documented in their latest IAXy documentation, dated December 3rd 2006 (you can get it at http://digium.com/en/docs/S101I/Iaxy_Installation_Guide.pdf).

In short, the instructions for compiling the IAXy provisioning utility should be instead:

$ cd /usr/src
$ svn co http://svn.digium.com/svn/iaxyprov/trunk iaxyprov
$ cd iaxyprov
$ make

That’s it.

Thanks for all the cool * articles, Nerd Vittles!

By: James Smith

James Smith — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:03:35 +0000

What are the best devices to connect 2 remote extensions to asterisk. I am considering either an IP phone or any IAX device to connect the branch office 2 extensions to the main office. Please suggest or share your experiances.

By: Kerry Garrison

Kerry Garrison — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:55:05 +0000

My only issue with this particular setup is that you eat the only network port you have in the hotel. I know its a pain to carry more equipment but I also carry a Grandstream 486 and a tiny switch. This way I can use the Grandstream as my remote extension (when it works), plug in an IAXy, and plug in my laptop, or more often plug in a wireless access point so me an m colleges can all share one daily internet fee instead of us all having to pay for one. When someone comes out with an IAX extension with integrated router, and 4 port switch (with wireless access point?) oh what a happy day it will be.

Excellent article as always!

By: jim mcmurry

jim mcmurry — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 03:34:30 +0000

The IAXy is a great device for sure! – Except of course when you arrive at a place/hotel that first captures your IP traffic until you sign into a web page and either a) pay for the connection (some hotels require this still) or b) at a minimum make you go through all the "I agree buttons" on their Bluesocket box (web page cpature) before it assigns a single IP to the machine that agreed.

Only solution I can think of so far is to either use a soft client, or bring along a USB->Ethernet so I have to hard wire ports on my powerbook and then set up Internet sharing 🙂 Then the powerbook accepts the capture, and then NATs out my phone connection. (I have not tested the latter)

Any other ideas?