trunk IP addresses

[jaray]

My trunk provider has 8 or 10 different IP addresses that incoming calls could come from. How do I allow for that in the incoming settings of FreePBX where I'm only used to ever entering 1 ip address.
Do I have to build a separate trunk for every IP address? I suspect not but theres got to be a way to put a range of IP's into the host line...

 

[tbrummell]

When I tried WhistlePhone I had to create an Inbound route for each server they had, else the call would randomly get rejected.

 

[andywright]

On the host= line in your Trunk configuration (under incoming settings) you can list all the possible source IP addresses separated by '&'

eg, for my provider (PlusNet in the UK) I use;

host=sip.plus.net&79.135.125.154&79.135.125.155

Andy.

 

[tbrummell]

Well damn, I did not know you could do that!

 

[jaray]

No kidding, I'll have to get trying this one.
thanks...

 

[Linetux]

Same thing goes for extensions if you want to allow from multiple sources as well. Just separate IP's and/or ip/subnet with "&"

 

[jaray]

Odd, I use DIDWW for a DID I have, and entering the multiple IP addresses in the fashion andywright suggested does not work.
DIDWW tells me I need a separate trunk
for each IP.
I'd surely think theres got to be a working way to tell asterisk of multiple IP's. The original suggestion sure did look like a surefire way to do it...

 

[blanchae]

It might depend on the version of Asterisk that you are running.

 

[mainenotarynet]

There was another post in Endpoints where Sip2Sip.info won't register and I had this thought:

There is a post in the Trunks forum of a suggestion to make your host line look like host=a.b.c.d&e.f.g.h&etc...

Now I read & to mean all must be true like registering an operator extension at office and home in 2 locations (as it mentions you can do this in extensions too (in deny/permit)) at all times. So what is the Symbol for an OR instead of an AND -- this may try the first and if it fails do the 2nd and so on.

Worth a shot.

I have not had my Sip2Sip successfully register in 4 months since I have *1.8-Purple w/ Incredible. Its kind of OK though because I have no one to video with at the moment anyways and the phone is in the bedroom as I get woken up for military flights and have to send out pages at 3 am My weird thing is the Nortel 1535 doesn't like one of the pager numbers I have to call and they are both in Maine.

Anyways maybe an OR would get the trunk to accept the IPs that way.

 

[jaray]

Good suggestion, not sure if there an "or" but hopefully someone will chime in here with another suggestion or the answer.
I'm going to have to build a bunch of individual trunks soon though for each IP address.

 

[andywright]

The ampersand sign does mean OR in this context. It wouldn't make sense if it meant AND - the Sip signalling couldn't come from eg. 3 separate sources simultaneously.

So in the example I gave before it should be read as "accept inbound connections from IP address A or B or C"

 

[jaray]

I'm using Asterisk V 1.4.21.2
FreePBX 2.7.0.

Here is what I have at host=
host=46.19.209.10&46.19.209.11&46.19.209.12&46.19.209.13&46.19.209.14&46.19.209.15&46.19.209.75&46.19.209.76&46.19.209.77&46.19.209.78&46.19.209.79&46.19.209.80

 

[jaray]

Does anyone else have multiple IP's for a trunk working on just one trunk config? I always get the feeling having so many individual trunks will load my system down...any thoughts on that? Maybe it doesn't matter at all anyway?