Comments on: VoIP coming to pfSense

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 01:01:01 +0000

FreeSWITCH and Asterisk are both great. I’ve implemented both in addition to sipXecs. By the way, sipXecs maybe free but the community is definitely not like the “free” community; you will eventually find Mike above, and his company are not like the free and helpful community of pfSense, FreeSWITHC, or Asterisk. Stick to FreeSWITCH and Asterisk. If you want an SBC look at OpenSIPS – not a pfSense appliance.

By: jon

jon — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:14:23 +0000

That is a nice addition to the firewall. This makes a perfect appliance to stick on the edge of the network. Handles blocking all your traffic and will make voip calls too.

By: Kronosei

Kronosei — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:13:12 +0000

Mark Crane is now officially added to the list of people who make my life livable pf is a true lifesaver; thanx to all the pf guys&gals that create solutions that allow an admin to have a life outside of an on-call pager!

By: zenny

zenny — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:29:25 +0000

This would revolutionize pfSense! Thanks Mark (J. Crane) for your effort.

By: i.kayyali

i.kayyali — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:44:42 +0000

Hi all,
its been a great 2008, I started learning about SIP,VOIP,asterisk and now comes FreeSwitch and pfSence.
its all great, but how is it possible for someone like me to someone like you guys?
I always read comments on different websites and wonder when am I going to be this well informed.
Frankly I dont know where to start.
I realy like to learn about pfSence and freeswitch but there is many thing i feel that I am missing.

any advice geeks?

please help
thank you

By: jigpe

jigpe — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:25:40 +0000

Mark J. Crane is the Man! Congrats Mark!

-jigpe

By: phil

phil — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:54:01 +0000

mike, i suggest to define a “virtual” interface (as for IPSEC VPN interface) and to attach the logical freeswitch interface to its. Then, we will be bale to define firewall rules to enforce Freeswitch security policy on its interface.

do not hesitate to provide your feeling on its mike and all

Phil

By: Mike Picher

Mike Picher — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:26:58 +0000

I started working on it but those config text files for FreeSwitch make my head hurt. One of the reasons I’m a sipXecs guy and not an Asterisk guy.

I’m leaning more towards OpenSBC at this point as it lets me mangle the SIP header information easier. I don’t particularly want an entire PBX running on my firewall… I just want it to pass voice traffic, deal with SIP & NAT, be able to make tweaks to SIP header information and prioritize voice traffic.

Mike

By: Bill Marquette

Bill Marquette — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:14:58 +0000

@Mike Picher: The SBC route is exactly why I was interested and encouraged Mark to make the FreeSWITCH package. I’m hoping that FreeSWITCH will eventually incorporate more security features (probably as part of mod_limit) that make use as a SBC more valuable. In the meantime, I’m just happy to not have to allow external parties the ability to talk directly to my PBX and my internal extensions. I’m hoping to have time this weekend after I wrap up our conversion to GIT to work on an SBC config and a corresponding tutorial on how to set this package up as one (with a pfPBX install on the inside).

–Bill

By: Mike Picher

Mike Picher — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:19:18 +0000

I’m going to ditto Tim on the 19th.

This will make an awesome Session Border Controller… Something desperately needed. I’ve been toying with Vyatta / Freeswitch and Vyatta / OpenSBC. No matter what I do there, this no GUI.

You’re ahead of the curve here Mark. I’ll install on my firewall and test with my SIP server behind and see how far I can get with the SBC config.

Mike