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    Comp 6204 Voip: Freepbx (Asterisk Based)

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    The document summarizes the author's experience installing and configuring FreePBX to work with physical Cisco phones. Key points include: - FreePBX was installed on a Core 2 Duo PC with 4GB RAM and patched to support Cisco phones. - Static IP configuration and OS patching were required but instructions were incomplete. - Cisco phone firmware was copied to the TFTP folder but user/network configuration files were not fully understood. - Individual phone configuration files were created but the phones did not respond. - The author stopped troubleshooting FreePBX as configuring Cisco phones manually proved too time-consuming compared to an alternative Asterisk-based IPBX that supported phones out of

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    Comp 6204 Voip: Freepbx (Asterisk Based)

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    The document summarizes the author's experience installing and configuring FreePBX to work with physical Cisco phones. Key points include: - FreePBX was installed on a Core 2 Duo PC with 4GB RAM and patched to support Cisco phones. - Static IP configuration and OS patching were required but instructions were incomplete. - Cisco phone firmware was copied to the TFTP folder but user/network configuration files were not fully understood. - Individual phone configuration files were created but the phones did not respond. - The author stopped troubleshooting FreePBX as configuring Cisco phones manually proved too time-consuming compared to an alternative Asterisk-based IPBX that supported phones out of

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    The document summarizes the author's experience installing and configuring FreePBX to work with physical Cisco phones. Key points include: - FreePBX was installed on a Core 2 Duo PC with 4GB RAM and patched to support Cisco phones. - Static IP configuration and OS patching were required but instructions were incomplete. - Cisco phone firmware was copied to the TFTP folder but user/network configuration files were not fully understood. - Individual phone configuration files were created but the phones did not respond. - The author stopped troubleshooting FreePBX as configuring Cisco phones manually proved too time-consuming compared to an alternative Asterisk-based IPBX that supported phones out of

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    Comp 6204 Voip: Freepbx (Asterisk Based)

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    The document summarizes the author's experience installing and configuring FreePBX to work with physical Cisco phones. Key points include: - FreePBX was installed on a Core 2 Duo PC with 4GB RAM and patched to support Cisco phones. - Static IP configuration and OS patching were required but instructions were incomplete. - Cisco phone firmware was copied to the TFTP folder but user/network configuration files were not fully understood. - Individual phone configuration files were created but the phones did not respond. - The author stopped troubleshooting FreePBX as configuring Cisco phones manually proved too time-consuming compared to an alternative Asterisk-based IPBX that supported phones out of

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    The document discusses the process of installing and configuring FreePBX to work with Cisco IP phones. It details the hardware used, operating system installation and patching, configuring a static IP, and issues encountered when setting up the Cisco phone firmware.

    The operations system base is proprietary to Sangoma (who releases FreePBX).

    The instructions followed were to open the network script configuration file, change it to include a static IP, and restart the network service.

    COMP 6204 VOIP:

    FreePBX
    (Asterisk based)
    . . . . . . . . . .

    Installation and configuration report


    with physical Cisco Phones, the Issues,
    Problems and Troubleshooting and Final
    Result

    Written By Nathan Fitness 27026688


    Table of Contents:

    Introduction............................................................................................. 3

    Installation............................................................................................... 4

    Operating System Patching....................................................................6

    Cisco Phone firmware.............................................................................7

    Cisco Phone Configuring...........................................................................7

    . . . . . . . . . .
    Introduction

    This report is going to document what I have done in attempting top get FreePBX installed and
    configured to work with Cisco phones loaded with sip firmware.

    There are putty log files included as well as screenshots

    The hardware used is as follows:

    Pc:

    Core 2 Duo E8400 @


    4Gb DDR2 800Mhz
    80gb 2.5” sata

    Phones: used (tried)

    Cisco
    IP Phone SPA502G
    Serial number: CCQ16421HAH
    Mac address: 58BFEA11A7CE
    PID / VID SPA502G V02

    IP Phone 7941
    Serial number: FCH120797Z0
    Mac address: 001F6C802164
    PID / VID CP-7941GV02

    IP Phone 7911
    Serial number: FCH141192ZJ
    Mac address: 081FF3624FC1
    PID / VID CP-7911GV08

    Switches:

    Cisco Catalyst 3560 POE-48


    Serial number: CAT1049ZHNH
    Mac address: 001A6DB18880
    PID / VID WS-C3560-48PS-S V04

    Generic POE switch


    Serial number: PS201604220004
    Mac address:
    PID 1004POE-AF

    2
    Installation

    Installation of FreePBX 1805.1 x64 was via dvd-r written and verified using easyburn.

    The operations system base is proprietary to Sangoma (who releases FreePBX)

    The Installation instructions followed was from: https://wiki.freepbx.org/display/PPS/Installing


    %2BSNG7%2BOfficial%2BDistro

    This had to be used twice as after the first install the computer would refuse to receive an IP
    address via DHCP.

    One everything was checked for consistent connectivity, the install was run that second rime and
    the computer successfully got assigned the number 192.168.1.153/24.

    Once the computer ______ ______ ______ __ __


    had booted it | ___| | ___ \| ___ \\ \ / /
    shows the | |_ _ __ ___ ___ | |_/ /| |_/ / \ V /
    following: | _| | '__| / _ \ / _ \| __/ | ___ \ / \
    | | | | | __/| __/| | | |_/ // /^\ \
    \_| |_| \___| \___|\_| \____/ \/ \/

    NOTICE! You have 2 notifications! Please log into the UI to see


    them!
    Current Network Configuration
    +-----------+-------------------+--------------------------+
    | Interface | MAC Address | IP Addresses |
    +-----------+-------------------+--------------------------+
    | eth0 | 00:1C:C0:1E:A2:C6 | 192.168.1.153 |
    | | | fe80::21c:c0ff:fe1e:a2c6 |
    +-----------+-------------------+--------------------------+

    Please note most tasks should be handled through the GUI.


    You can access the GUI by typing one of the above IPs in to your
    web browser.
    For support please visit:
    http://www.freepbx.org/support-and-professional-services

    +------------------------------------------------------------+
    | There are 22 System updates available. |
    | Run yum update to update them. |
    | No PBX Module updates information available |
    +------------------------------------------------------------+

    3
    Once you have an IP number you can access the Web based GUI

    Unfortunately this distro is only useable with Sangoma’s own IP Phones. This means we need
    some more instructions to modify the install to get Cisco phones working.

    4
    Operating System Patching

    Firsts things first – Static IP

    I chose a static IP as it makes sense for a VOIP server to be always found at one IP number for
    efficient scripts

    The instructions I followed were found at: Wiki freepbx org how to set network settings from the cli

    They were open the following file

    nano /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcong-etho

    change file to look like this:

    then restart the network service via this command:

    service network restart

    Now the patching:

    The instructions I followed were found at: https://wiki.freepbx.org/display/FOP/Cisco

    I started to configure via the console line directly at the pc, but found it was taking longer than
    expected to proceed, so I switched to putty and ssh’d into the box.
    This enabled me to “copy and paste” the lines from the website into the pc, a lot faster, and more
    accurately.

    There were a few command line issues due to updated files. An example is:

    (Excerpt out of instructions via: https://wiki.freepbx.org/display/FOP/Cisco)

    Now source files are needed the source for mISDNuser is needed for Asterisk to build, but it won't
    be installed.

    cd ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
    yumdownloader --source asterisk13

    the next line was to be:

    wget http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/src-oss/suse/src/mISDNuser-2.1.0-
    1.4.src.rpm

    but since the file was not being found, I Had to change it to:

    wget http://download.opensuse.org/source/tumbleweed/repo/oss/src/mISDNuser-2.1.0-
    1.6.src.rpm

    This slowed progress down a bit due to locating the new file via the source depository.

    3
    Once completed the rest of the build, except for a double up of patch10 while editing
    asterisk13.spec via nano, went smoothly.

    6
    Cisco Phone firmware

    Now we had the main part patched the rest should work (or not work)

    Fist part was copying the phones flash firmware to the /tftpboot folder

    Next we had to find and configure the network and user locales
    This is where the instructions broke down – asks to refer to another website for answers…..so in
    other words, even the writer had trouble understanding,

    At the moment I have not fully understood the user and network locale files

    Cisco Phone Configuring

    Next up is individual configuration files for each phone according to their mac address

    After copying and pasting the example into notepad, editing it and then via ssh and nano pasting
    the contents into the folder under linux cli

    We should have some response from the phones

    Conclusion

    This is where I am up to. (with no working phones)

    I stopped and decided to try IPBX (asterisk based)


    With success coming from ipbx eXpress with two working phones and working scripts
    It was time to reattempt freepbx

    One thing was certain, US$150 is cheap compared to the run around freepbx gives you just o
    configure phones entirely manually.

    With time spent on this freepbx project ticking into hours of frustration, and having to patch an
    operating system in a way that renders upgrading scripts broken, just to get cisco p[hones
    working to save US$150 is not worth the time and hassle. Not to mention that manually assigning
    a static ip to the server and then installing a dhcp/tftp service. It makes a build your own setup
    seem cost efficient.

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