Yet Another Remote Extension Question...

[MrBostn]

Hi,

What I have setup now:
At office-PIAF 1.3
PFSense Firewall with port 4569 open

At Home:
PIAF 1.3
Trendnet router with port 4569 open

Both PIAF's are connect via iax2 trunk. Works fine.

What I would like to do:
Ditch the PIAF at home and just use an IP HARDPHONE.

Is my only option is do do the sip port forwarding dance and hope for the best?
what about loading openvpn on the piaf server at work, and replace the Trendnet router with a dd-wrt router at home?

I'm asking this because I'm trying to pursuade my boss to let me set up piaf for the office. A big selling point would be having him have a "real" office phone extension in his home office. (without using hamachi and a softphone) since he has a long commute.

I know I could setup follow me, but I'm hoping to get as close as being in the office as possible.


Thank you.

Scott

 

[tshif]

Scott;
We use several remote extensions just as you describe - and the results have been very very good.

I haven't used an IAX2 hardphone, but they do exist.

http://www.asteriskguru.com/tutorials/st_302_ip_phone_hardphone.html

Heres another interesting thread with some suggestions:

http://www.trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/trixbox-endpoints/iax2-hardphones

And Ive read a few good reviews of this:

http://www.ngnsky.com/product_info.php?products_id=74

All that being said - all our remote hard phones are SIP, and all the users are behind NAT. HOWEVER, the PBX is NOT NAT'ed, and that seems to be a part of our success with remote SIP users.

Tony

 

[MrBostn]

Tony-Thanks for the input.

I'll look into that iax phone.

I think a killer app would be incorporating openvpn into the phone itself (I'm aware there's a Snom that does it, but it's $$$).

So your server is on a dmz?

 

[markiper]

SPA2102 works perfectly for remote locations..

I have a PBXinaFlash server at home, behind a Linksys router, and I am able to have a SPA2102 register properly from a different network also behind a router (as we speak, the ATA is in Latin America on a 256kbps cable modem connection and working excellent).

I have not tested this, but the SPA9XX Linksys phones have very similar, if not the same, firmware that their ATA's, so I am assuming this could also work in your case, and you could give your boss an office grade phone at his residence. Hope this helps....

Regards,
markiper

 

[MrBostn]

Mark,
Are you forwarding port 5060, and the other usual ports from the linksys router to the piaf server, or did you enter the ip of the PIAF sever in the DMZ section of the Linksys router config? If you did the latter, then your PIAF is on the internet, and that explains the ease of access from remote places using the SPA2102.


Thanks Again,
Scott