I have successfully built my FreePBX server and set up my SIP trunk. I’m confirming it’s working because when I dial the DID on a cell phone, the server goes into the IVR menu I set up for testing. So it’s receiving inbound calls from the outside world.
Problem is, I can’t register any SIP phones (hardware and software) and I’ve tried everything:
Opened port TCP port 5160 on the hardware firewall pointing the FreePBX Server
Created new SIP Extension (101) and linked to a new user. Copied both secrets to clipboard
Logged into the SIP Phone’s web interface (Shoretel IP-8000).
Parameters are: SIP Username: Same as what I set up in FreePBX SIP Authorization Name: Same as the SIP Username SIP Authorization Password: Same as the FreePBX User Secret SIP Registration: Direct SIP Registrar: Enabled Registrar Hostname: IP Address of the FreePBX server Registrar IP Port: 5160 UDP Signaling Port: 5160 TCP Signaling: Enabled TCP Signaling Port: 5160
Opened port TCP port 5160 on the hardware firewall pointing the FreePBX Server
but did you also
Opened port UDP port 5160 on the hardware firewall pointing the FreePBX Server
and what does
lsof -i :5060
return, unless you changed things, external SIP connections will use UDP and FreePBX will need you to support and provision chan_pjsip on udp/5060 or change your sip ports for the connections
I’ve opened up both TCP and UDP port 5160 on the firewall, but that didn’t seem to have an effect.
I ran the command and this is what returned:
And just for fun I ran lsof -I :5160 and this is what was returned:
(it’s not letting me post a second image because I’m a new user, so I’ll post another reply.)
I also added TCP and UDP port 5060 to forward to FreePBX just to see what would happen, restarted the server, and hoped for the best. I also adjusted the settings on the Shoretel IP8000 to use port 5060.
I haven’t changed any defaults, and both chan_sip and chan_pjsip are provisioned and on. Chan_SIP is on 5160, Chan_PJSIP is on 5060.
I changed the extension associated with the user to use PJSIP instead of regular SIP. That didn’t help.
I also have a softphone on my computer called MicroSIP, and I tried setting the user up through there. It immediately says “Incorrect Password,” although I’ve reset the password on the user account and tried again. Still no luck.
Admittedly, I’m completely new to FreePBX and Asterisk. Are there some configuration files I could post here? I feel like I’m missing something very simple…
Also – FreePBX (the standard distro running on CentOS) is running as a VM in HyperV on a Windows Server. So that might be causing some issues. But the VM has its own private IP address on the network and I’m able to ping it.
I’ve had a breakthrough! I watched a YouTube video and clearly I was reading the instructions wrong. I was using the USER password instead of the Extension Secret.
Also I stopped using the custom username associated with the extension, and just typed the extension number in the user field.
So the softphone is now registered.
I’m going to try and register the Shoretel IP 8000 and let everyone know what happens.
Unfortunately, the ShoreTel IP8000 continues to fail SIP Registration… it’s past midnight here so I’m going to try again tomorrow. If anyone has anything to add for what I can try, I’ll look forward to reading and trying. Thanks for everyone’s suggestions up to this point.
This is solved… the Shoretel IP8000 finally registered with the FreePBX box.
To summarize, here are the settings that worked:
On the FreePBX Server: Create a PJSIP extension, copy the SIP Secret to clipboard.
On the ShoreTel IP8000: Use the extension number as the username (NOT the User the extension is associated with). Use the Extension Secret as the Password (NOT the password for the User the extension is associated with). Port 5060 is fine. Restart the Shoretel and wait several minutes.
