We recently put together a Dell T620 Poweredge server with 4 WD RED 3T drives for use as a file server that is used with a high traffic large .DBF application. Reliability and performance were the priorities. We made a few assumptions this time around to save a little time based upon our test a […]
Sipxecs and Cisco SPA8800 and SPA8000
The Cisco SPA8000 series works very well with Sipxecs. My only complaint is that the each FXO port, on the SPA8800, has to be configured as separate gateway in sipx. There is no pooling of the FXO ports for making outbound calls in Sipx. This device is not manage in Sipx 4.4 but the web interface to the […]
Sipxecs and Linksys ATA3102 / ATA2102
The following is a brief setup procedure to get the Linksys 3102 or 2102 to work with Sipxecs 4.4. First thing is that you will probably want to update the firmware in these devices. http://www.cisco.com/cisco/software/navigator.html?mdfid=282414109 The Linksys firmware updater is very easy. Just run the executable in the zip file, enter the IP address and […]
IP Authentication with Sipxecs and Voip.ms
Everyone says you cannot use IP auth with voip.ms because they cannot send inbound calls via port 5080. The answer is to setup your DID’s to use SIP URI for inbound and use IP auth for outbound. Your SIP URI would look like {DID}@pbx1.example.com:5080. If you don’t add the 5080 port then you will not […]
How To Use Apache Proxy To Sipxecs
Sometimes you may need to go through a clients existing public apache web server to get “inside” to the private sipxecs server. This can also help meeting PCI requirements. Put the following the in public facing web server: /etc/apache2/conf.d/sipxecs.conf [crayon-609a04cbd047d036664900/]
Sipxecs and Polycom Notes
DTMF If using voip.ms try setting the DTMF setting to AUTO. If using voip.ms try calling 4747 for DTMF playback. If you don’t have them then try your local movie theater. This post may be useful: [fancy_link color=”black” link=”http://community.polycom.com/t5/VoIP/DTMF/td-p/2030″]http://community.polycom.com/t5/VoIP/DTMF/td-p/2030[/fancy_link] Configuring the Phone Group in Sipxecs DTMF Level: -7 onTime: 150 offTime: 150 chassis.masking: checked Hold Reminder […]
Sipxecs, Hylafax and t38modem
This post describes how to get t38modem to work with Hylafax and Sipxecs. The purpose is to allow Hylafax to be able to send faxes, while the Sipxecs system will handle the inbound faxes. The Hylafax service is running on an Ubuntu Oneiric server. Some thought was given to using freeswitch mod spandsp but in […]