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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> As you may work out Im not an expert in
this, hopefully for those of you that are this is a pretty straight forward
question.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Im trying to implement something like
this:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cisco_as5300
<-----> OpenSER
<------> Atersisk</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>PSTN
Gateway SIP
Proxy
PBX</FONT></DIV>
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^</FONT></DIV>
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size=2> Radius</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am attempting to setup OpenSER as a SIP proxy for
a Cisco PSTN Gateway, on the other side of OpenSER I have an Asterisk system. My
confusion centres around the connection between the end users (SNOM or whatever)
which hang off Asterisk and the connection between Asterisk and OpenSER. I have
configure Asterisk to SIP register to OpenSER, all works ok here and Asterisk
sees OpenSER as a SIP peer and channel. The bit Im not getting is that when
someone dials a number from a handset connected to Asterisk that needs to route
out via OpenSER, Asterisk seems to pass the username and password
credentials of the handset to OpenSER. Firstly if its going to do this, then
what is the point of SIP registering Asterisk as its authenticating ever session
as individual entities anyway, secondly this isnt scaleable :( it seems to mean
I have to configure each SNOM user both in Asterisk and in OpenSER. All of which
doesnt seem very logical, can anyone tell me if I'm doing something wrong or if
Im approaching this in the wrong way or if I need to approach the problem in
some other way...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The end goal of this is that Id like the ability to
bill on a per SIP peer basis customer Asterisk boxes, I dont want to end up in a
situation were I have to know about every SNOM a customer has.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>many many thanks in advance, Im a bit stuck at the
mo! thanks Andy.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>