Quote Originally Posted by gbh2o View Post
You are new to this! A good victim... ( you really need to read a bit, start by downloading Asterisk, The Future of Telephony from a site like http://cdn.oreilly.com/books/9780596510480.pdf or read the online html versions. Then either print or buy a copy to mark up as you learn)

That is actually the way I set the context statement in my settings. Unless you have specifically created a working [from-voipo] context in the configuration files, I would not use that.

The settings to 'publish' your * box location to the external world will depend on whether your IP is static or dynamic. and your domain name.

For example, I use static IPs and have statements 'like' (meaning these are not real) this in the sip.conf files:

externip=72.85.94.206
localnet=192.168.45.0/255.255.255.0

On my PBXiaF box, I insert them in the sip_custom.conf file since the sip.conf is automatically maintained by FreePBX (in other words, don't change it, it will just get over-written). I have not played with TrixBox since they went a bit over the edge a while ago.

There have been some good recent discussions of proper setups for asterisk over at the http://www.dslreports.com/forum/voip forums.
I'll be truthful, this is all over my head, I will start reading and playing around and see if I can make things work. The one statement that stands out to me here is " I have not played with TrixBox since they went a bit over the edge a while ago." can you please explain what you mean by this? I thought trixbox was the defacto standard open source setup for getting asterisk up and running. Maybe I am wrong. I am just starting to dabble in these setups because the company I work for wants me to start looking into voip phone systems instead of straight digital "nortel" type systems. Yes I am fresh fish and am just starting to get wet, but dont want to head down the wrong direction....I think what you are referring to is the buyout by fonality if I'm not mistaken.

Thanks for all the help.