[rdbeamer]

Have recently configured the latest version of Asterisk @home, and all went well as long as I just connected via an x-lite phones. I have been trying to configure a supura spa2100 to add another extention, and am running intomajor headaches. I called broadvoice and inquired about the admin password, and was told to reset the device. This I did, but am at a loss as to what settings I should be using in the sipura control panel. Specifically, what settings should be changed in the Line 1 and provisioning tabs. Also, where all do I need to make changes in the Asterisk config logs. I suspect the extention I set up for the sipura is incorrect. Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks

[mberlant]

It is unclear from your posting just exactly what you are trying to accomplish. Are you trying to program your SPA-2100's unused Line 2 as an extension of your Asterisk? Are you trying to program your Asterisk to be a client of BroadVoice instead of your SPA-2100? Will you then want to configure your SPA-2100's Line 1 as a new extension of Asterisk?

Are you using your SPA-2100 as your router, or is it behind a real router? Is your Asterisk located in the DMZ of your router, or have you forwarded all of the necessary ports inbound to your Asterisk? Do you have a fixed or dynamic IP address from your ISP?

With a little bit of description we should be able to start analyzing the situation and get you pointed in the right direction.

[rdbeamer]

sorry!
I was hoping to configure my spa-2100 as a new extention of asterisk(which i suppose would make it a client of broadvoice). My setup is as such:
Sipura box is connected (via wan port) to pc port of a 4 port dlink router. Sipuras lan address is 192,168.0.1 . Routers ip is 192.168.0.10, and asterisk box is @ ip # 111. I haven't set up asterisk in the routers dmz, nor have i had to forward ports to get the x-lite connecting inbound & outbound. My isp uses dhcp. One additional question I have is what should the wan settings be for the spa-2100? When I talked with broadvoice I was told just to leave it alone as itr didn't matter (since I was behind a firewall). I appreciate any help you can render1
thanks

[mberlant]

If you really want to route your BV through your Asterisk box you have a lot of work ahead of you.

First of all, as long as you leave Line 1 of your 2100 alone BV will not pump through your Asterisk. That is a good thing, because you are not ready for that step yet.

Right now you have not made any router adjustments because your X-Lite clients don't need to pass through the router to reach the Asterisk. In order to teach Asterisk to register with BV you will need to make those adjustments.

I recommend that you do all of your experimenting with Free World Dialup and not with your live BV account. If you don't already have a FWD account, go get one. Program it into your Asterisk and use that, along with your X-Lite client, to work out the mappings you need in your router. Once you are successfully making and receiving FWD calls you can then add Line 2 of your SPA-2100 as an Asterisk client.

Then, when you are successful making calls between X-Lite and SPA-2100 and between each of them and FWD numbers, you can migrate your BV account onto the Asterisk and set up Line 1 of the SPA-2100 as an additional Asterisk extension.

Now, don't think for a minute that what I just described is insurmountable. I recently went through the same learning curve and survived. If you attack Asterisk step by step you will end up with a very robust system.

[rdbeamer]

Is this really all that complex a step? I've been trying to follow along with the Kerry Garrison articles, and got the impression this should be an easy step. Could you elaborate on what you'd mentioned below:

"Right now you have not made any router adjustments because your X-Lite clients don't need to pass through the router to reach the Asterisk. In order to teach Asterisk to register with BV you will need to make those adjustments."

Both my asterisk box and the spa-2100 are behind the router/firewall, and I have broadvoice configured and working on the asterisk box and routing incoming and outgoing calls using x-lite phones. The problem is in getting the SPA-2100 registered with the asterisk box. I'd called broadvoice, and they suggisted that I reset the spa-2100 to factory default, and work on the settings on the sipura. I had assumed my woes had to do with configuring the spa-2100 and nothing else. Could you please elaborate on your remarks?
Thanks again

[mberlant]

Your SPA-2100 is successfully connecting with BroadVoice because it employs a technique called STUN, which you can read about on numerous threads here, whose job it is to send a feeler out to a STUN server on the public internet, which echoes back your public IP address and the SIP listening port. Your client then uses this information in its registration request so that BV knows where to send your incoming calls.

Asterisk does not have a STUN client. This means that in order to succeed in registering Asterisk with BroadVoice (or FWD or any other SIP service) you need to manually perform all of the functions that STUN automates. You need to learn your public IP address and put it into your sip.conf. You then need to set your RTP range in sip.conf and forward that port range through your router to the Asterisk. You also need to forward SIP port(s) through the router, to match your sip.conf settings.

There are many steps in that little paragraph and each has to be just right for the whole system to work smoothly. That is why I recommended that you do not use your live BV account as your Asterisk guinea pig. In my case, BV was the last service I migrated from my SPA-2000 to Asterisk. The first was FWD.

[jperry22]

I'll have to agree with mberlant. When I started with asterisk, FWD was the testbed. BV was one of the last services to port to my asterisk server as they are a little more complex to set up.

[rdbeamer]

thanks for the input. Will start digging into the STUN info. You'd stated:

Asterisk does not have a STUN client. This means that in order to succeed in registering Asterisk with BroadVoice (or FWD or any other SIP service) you need to manually perform all of the functions that STUN automates. You need to learn your public IP address and put it into your sip.conf. You then need to set your RTP range in sip.conf and forward that port range through your router to the Asterisk.

Am a little foggy about what public ip address you are talking about. Are you talking about my default gateway from my service provider, or are you talking about one of the ip addresses provided by broadvoice? Also, am I going about this all wrong?, All I was really wanting to do was to add an extention to asterisk where I could pick up calls using a cordless phone insteed of a x-lite phone etc.
Thanks for the help, and I'll start digging into STUN

[mberlant]

The public address is your own WAN public address that your router gets from your ISP. This actual address (or an FQDN that resolves to that address) must be included in your sip.conf file for you to be able to receive any phone calls from any SIP provider in the outside world.

BroadVoice does not provide you with any address. Your SPA-2100 is a two line ATA which has Line 1 programmed to work as a client to the BroadVoice service. You asked for advice on configuring Line 2 as an extension of your Asterisk server and I extrapolated this to mean that you eventually wished to use your BV service via your Asterisk. Based upon that assumption I laid out the roadmap that worked for me just a couple of months ago.

As an aside (and, perhaps, this is what you were imagining), simply configuring Line 2 of your SPA-2100 as an extension of your Asterisk will not give your Asterisk any connectivity to BroadVoice. To accomplish this you must configure a SIP service on Asterisk with your BV credentials and you must migrate the client functionality off of Line 1 of the SPA-2100 and onto the Asterisk.

[rdbeamer]

thanks for the reply. I already have asterisk connected to broadvoice, and can make local & long distance calls all day and nite using my x-lite phone. What I am wanting to do is to create an extention on my asterisk server that will ring into my spa2100 (with cordless phone), and which I can also make outgoing calls. I am planning on using line 1 to do this, and in the future set up another extention on line 2. I've been reading most of the postings, and am still unclear what settings i need to place in asterisk, and what my line one settings should be. Noticed that you had a config wizard for the sipura 3000 for asterisk, is there something comperable for the spa 2100? Thanks for your patience!