Hi all, I need to configure nethserver as a voip server. Can anyone give me directions on where to find a guide / documentation on nethserver? Thank you all .
So buddy, howās going?
Hello ! Regarding the configuration of voip on nethserver I would have wanted a step by step tutorial to try to understand how it works and how to make it operational. In some subjects I have little knowledge and therefore I need more basic help.
Hi @france ! What help do you need? I have configured a server with FreePBX and I am a worker for Movistar (TelefĆ³nica), the largest telecommunications company in Spain. If you want, send me a private one with your specific case and, once we get what you need, we can explain it here in case it helps someone else too. Greetings!
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Hi and thanks for your help. In particular, I was asking for a how to on how to configure freepbx step by step, which terminals to use and service provider. However, as previously written, I am at the first experience on this service. In the meantime, Iām researching what I find on the internet to understand how it works.
Way outside the scope of the Nethserver docs. Here are some resources that might help:
https://wiki.freepbx.org/display/FPG/Configuring+Your+PBX
Really, any SIP-supporting ones you want. Iāve been happy with ClearlyIP for a desk phone:
ā¦and Yealinkās W56P for a cordless phone, but thereās lots on the market there.
Canāt help you there, Iām afraid; my experience is in .us. There, Iāve found clearlyip.com, voip.ms, skyetel.com, and bulkvs.com to all be good. But I think youād need someone else to tell you who would be good in .es. You may want to ask on the FreePBX forum:
https://community.freepbx.org/
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Perfect, Iām going to prepare some tutorials. I will go in parts and, as soon as I have them, I will upload them to the HowTo.
I think that depends on each one. For example, I prefer the Yealink for desktops and the Gigaset for cordless phones.
More of the same. It depends on what you need (if you need international calls, minute rates or āpacksā with minutes to mobiles and landlines). Apart from having it configured with my phone number from my ISP (VoIP over FTTH), I have bought a virtual phone number in Zadarma (what do you all think?) And I have configured it without problems. They also have quite a few tutorials (Iām not advertising 
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Thanks a lot to everyone for your contribution to the community!
But stay far, FAR away from the Cisco 79xx series. Yes, theyāre cheap. Yes, they can be made to work. But itās a royal PITA, which is doubtless why theyāre so cheap.
Not to tell you your business, but there are already lots of FreePBX tutorials out there. If I might make a suggestion, it might be best to focus on whatās unique about FreePBX on Neth (e.g., ignore anything any other tutorial says about the firewall), at least at first. That seems like it would be the more pressing need.
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Sorry, lots of replies in a row. But I do use FreePBX, and have for a few yearsābut on a separate machine from my Neth box. Iāve been using a variant called IncrediblePBX, and it looks like theyāve just recently released a prebuilt VM image that you can fire up under Proxmox in a matter of minutes:
http://nerdvittles.com/?p=34493
Prefer VirtualBox? Yeah, theyāve got that too:
http://nerdvittles.com/?p=34424
Since the kerfuffle with CentOS, theyāve moved to a Debian base. Iām using an older release that runs under CentOS, but itās been working well for me.
I really believe that the freepbx tutorial must be specific to nethserver, as users have to make it work on this server. There are many how-toās made for nethserver, such as pc linux joins, wbmail sogo, etc. My expectations are to improve nethserver and its modules in the best possible way. Of the pro I recognize that the community of this server is supported by a lot of people quite professional and above all available. Thank you all .
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Certainly there are things that are specific to Nethserverāthe firewall is one example I already mentioned; another would be how itās going to use TLS certificates. But FreePBX is a complex, widely-used, and well-documented piece of software. IMO, it would be a waste of time to prepare and maintain Nethserver-specific documentation on choosing a service provider, setting up extensions, configuring trunks, inbound/outbound routes, etc.āall of those subjects are thoroughly discussed in many other places, and thereās nothing at all Neth-specific about them, so I donāt see any benefit to reinventing the wheel there.
Of course, if someone else is writing the docs, they can write about whatever they want. But I think the greatest ābang for buckā would be to address the Neth-specific issues in more detail, and then (as is already done) refer to the official FreePBX docs for matters that have nothing to do with Nethserver, perhaps adding some other good resources.
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I know I agree with you. The issues need to be discussed around newthserver. When I asked for a how to it is linked to nethserver, as you have already pointed out, there are many documents on the internet. But I think that writing something specific for the server is the first step, clearly afterwards you can deepen it with other resources ā¦ Anyway thanks for your suggestions.
I know this is a ābit oldā but from reading between the linesā¦ is there a repoository of how docuemnts somewhere, if so where?