Initial Instructions

README.md

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-# hamshackhotline-iax-trunk-quickstart
+# Quickstart/Cheatsheet For IAX Trunks On Hamshack Hotline
 
-Confirmation of what config works for an IAX2 trunk in to Hamshack Hotline.
+Hamshack Hotline is a VoIP network available to licensed hams. They do allow IAX2 trunking if you run your own PBX. The TOS only allows you to use this trunk for HSH services only.
+
+It's easy enough to keep everybody seperated on my PBX. I don't bother with dial prefixes because everyone has a line:
+
+- VOIP.MS US number: PJSIP/shackus
+- VOIP.MS CA number: PJSIP/shackca
+- VOIP.MS UK number: PJSIP/shackuk
+- VOIP.MS US PICKMY: PJSIP/pickmyus
+- Hamshack Hotline: PJSIP/hsh
+- INTERNAL: PJSIP/internal
+
+
+Dial rules for each account specify where calls go. Yeah, it'd be crazy easy to just pick up the phone; dial a string of numbers; and route it where I want. But my phone literally supports 16 SIP accounts/lines. I have no problem hitting a button; I want that physical line feeling.
+
+
+## iax.conf
+
+```
+[general]
+register => user:secret@hhus.hamshackhotline.com
+
+[guest]
+type=user
+context=internal
+
+[hshot]
+type=friend
+host=hhus.hamshackhotline.com
+trunk=yes
+username=user/extension
+secret=HHSECRETCODE
+insecure = port,invite
+requirecalltoken = no
+context=hamshackhotline
+auth = md5
+disallow = all
+allow = ulaw
+codecpriority = host
+transfer = no
+callerid = asreceived
+;deny = 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
+;permit = 144.202.54.216/255.255.255.255
+```
+
+If you try to decipher their FreePBX instructions in to something Asterisk uses; it's doing the method of creating an inbound AND outbound trunk. I've also seen a configuration floating around that looke like this:
+
+```
+;[userID]
+;type = peer
+;context = hamshackhotline
+;secret = secret
+;host = dynamic
+;encryption = no
+;insecure = port,invite
+;requirecalltoken = no
+;qualify = yes
+;trunk = yes
+
+;[userID]
+;type = user
+;host=hhus.hamshackhotline.com
+;context = hamshackhotline
+;username = user/extension
+;secret = secret
+;encryption = no
+;insecure = port,invite
+;requirecalltoken = no
+;trunk = yes
+;callerid = HamshackHotline
+```
+
+This configuration would work; but it gets in to how IAX authentication works. For incoming where `type=user` it totally ignores the `username=` option and instead looks for a context that matches. Outgoing is entirely different. 
+
+Look...there's probably a reason that when I've always been trunking two Asterisk machines together, I use `type=friend`. 
+
+## extensions.conf
+
+Hamshack hotline uses 3, 5, 8, and 10 digit extensions. Our incoming extension *should* be our full number. Since I have all my stuff split out in to their own configuration files, here's my `hamshackhotline.conf` file:
+
+
+```
+[hamshackshotline]
+include => hsh-inbound
+include => hsh-outbound
+
+[hsh-inbound]
+exten => 6100001142,1,Dial(PJSIP/hsh)
+
+[hsh-outbound]
+exten = _XXX,1,Set(CALLERID(all)=NQ4T <6100001142>)
+same = n,Dial(IAX2/hshot/${EXTEN})
+exten = _XXXX,1,Set(CALLERID(all)=NQ4T <6100001142>)
+same = n,Dial(IAX2/hshot/${EXTEN})
+exten = _XXXXX,1,Set(CALLERID(all)=NQ4T <6100001142>)
+same = n,Dial(IAX2/hshot/${EXTEN})
+exten = _XXXXXXXXXX,1,Set(CALLERID(all)=NQ4T <6100001142>)
+same = n,Dial(IAX2/hshot/${EXTEN})
+exten = _*XX,1,Set(CallerID(all)=NQ4T <6100001142>)
+same = n,Dial(IAX2/hshot/${EXTEN})
+```
+
+This does in fact follow the same convention as others; the context we call from the trunk just includes seperate sets of rules. Naturally you could combine everythig under one context. This just helps keep things nice and neat.
+
+The dialplan for PJSIP/hsh is literally just this:
+
+```
+[hshotline]
+include => hsh-outbound
+```
+
+This is the other reasons I seperate the outgoing dial rules; it allows for some flexibility in the future. For my VOIP.MS configuration there's an outgoing context and then Goto's for my phones. I could probably clean all that up and simplify it.
+
+Oh well, good luck. 73.