VoIP Hacks: How to Spoof Your Caller ID

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A fun prank is to call friends, family, or strangers from the White House's phone number (202 456-2121). The reason that this is possible is that Vonage, Skype, and other VoIP providers fundamentally must be able to fake caller ID in order to route calls from the internet onto public phone networks (so presumably they've been doing some lobbying over the years).<br />
<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A Brief Technical Overview of Caller ID Spoofing:</b><br />
What we'll do is register a free account at an ITSP, or Internet Telephony Service Provider, which acts as the bridge between the internet and the public American (or otherwise) analog telephony networks. We'll then configure the ITSP to use the White House's phone number as our outbound caller ID. Finally, we'll connect to the ITSP using a free VoIP client, or softphone, to make our call using a PC.<br />
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<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The 10-Minute Step-by-Step Process:</b></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">  Register a free account on <a href="http://www.sipgate.com/" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">SIPGate.com.</a></li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Download <a href="http://www.counterpath.com/x-lite.html" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">X-Lite</a>, a free VoIP client.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Log in to SIPGate, then go to Settings–>Caller ID.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Enter 202-456-2121 as the Caller ID and click "Save."</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Go back to your SIPGate Settings screen and click "SIP Credentials."</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Leave that window alone for a moment.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">  Open X-Lite and go to Menu–>SIP Account Settings–>Add.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">  Use <a href="http://www.sipgate.com/faq/article/397/How_do_I_set_up_my_VoIP_device" style="color: #2361a1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">these instructions</a> to configure your SIP Account Settings on X-Lite using your SIP Credentials.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Dial any number and enjoy!</li>
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A fun prank is to call friends, family, or strangers from the White House's phone number (202 456-2121). The reason that this is pos...

Setup IP PBX for small business step by step

7/06/2011 rahlabs 0

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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http:/#Instruction" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1. Instruction</a></span></div>
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<a href="http:/#ip_pbx" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2.1 IP-PBX</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.myvoipapp.com/docs/faq/setup_ippbx_for_small_business_step_by_step/index.html#phones" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2.2 Phones</a></div>
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<a href="http:/#Scenario" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">3. Scenario</a></div>
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<a href="http:/#step1" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">4.1 Step1: setup miniSipServer</a></div>
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<a href="http:/#step2" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">4.2 Step2: connect local users to miniSipServer</a></div>
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<a href="http:/#step2_1" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">4.2.1 Add a new extension in miniSipServer</a></div>
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<a href="http:/#step3" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">4.3 Step 3: connect miniSipServer to VOIP provider</a></div>
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<a href="http:/#Make_outgoing_call" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">4.3.1 Make outgoing call</a></div>
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<a href="http:/#Advance_configuration" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">5. Advance configuration</a></div>
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<a href="http:/#voice_mail" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">5.1 Voice mail</a></div>
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<a href="http:/#faq_sip_port" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">6.1 How to change SIP port?</a></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3385998300716176663" name="Instruction" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></a>1. Instruction</span></h2>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">More and more peoples start small business now, such as home based business. It is very important to keep communication with our customers. In normal, most of us just use a simple telephone or use skype to do that. It can just fit our basic requirement, but it has obvious shortage, for example, it makes our business looks like a very small business, a personal business. We hope to make our business looks like a big business and our company looks like a professional company. We want to establish a voice interaction for our customers, such as prompt "welcome to xxx company. Please dial the extension or zero for assistance", etc. Can we do that?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Of course, we can do that! There is a very simple solution to do that using VOIP. This document will give a step by step guide on how to establish a VOIP network for our business. The solution will be as simple as possible, almost just need only one PC with Windows system.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3385998300716176663" name="What_VOIP" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></a>2. What's VOIP?</span></h2>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">VOIP is "Voice over Internet Protocol". It is a general term for a family of transmission technologies for delivery of voice communications over IP networks such as the Internet or other packet-switched networks. VOIP can be a benefit for reducing communication and infrastructure costs.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In another way, it is very easy to use VOIP to establish our communication system with rich features.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In normal, we need to setup three main components: IP-PBX, phones (or soft-phones) and VOIP carriers' service that let you call other peoples on the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network, it is our traditional telephone network).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3385998300716176663" name="ip_pbx" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></a>2.1 IP-PBX</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">There are lots of IP-PBX. Some of them are hardware based devices, some of them are software based server.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I suggest miniSipServer. miniSipServer is a professional SIP PBX for Windows system. It has all features we need. Most important, it is so easy that we can setup and run it in 10 minutes!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In another way, if you are familiar with Linux system, I suggest to try Asterisk. It is complex and powerful.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3385998300716176663" name="phones" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></a>2.2 Phones</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We can buy SIP phones from Grandstream, Cisco, Linksys, etc. If we still want to use our traditional analog telephone, we can buy a SIP adapter from them.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">To get started, we use a softphone and run it in the same computer or another computers. I suggest to try Xlite softphone.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3385998300716176663" name="voip_carriers" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></a>2.3 VOIP carriers</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Lots of VOIP carriers can provide SIP services. I suggest following VOIP providers:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.sipgate.co.uk/" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sipgate.</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.voicetrading.com/" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">VoiceTrading.</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.broadvoice.com/" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">BroadVoice.</a></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Once register to these VOIP providers, they will give you a SIP account information, such as SIP server address, account name and password, etc. These information will be used when we configure our IP-PBX.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3385998300716176663" name="Scenario" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></a>3. Scenario</span></h2>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Following figure describes a simple environment for small business or home based business.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img alt="network" name="network" src="http://www.myvoipapp.com/docs/faq/setup_ippbx_for_small_business_step_by_step/3__1.jpg" /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In our demo scenario, the small company only has two member, Holly and G.T.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Holly's extension number is 100, and G.T's extension phone number is 101. Both of them have PCs based on windows system. The IP address of Holly's PC is 192.168.1.100. The IP address of G.T's PC is 192.168.1.101. miniSipServer will be installed on another PC whose IP address is 192.168.1.110.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The company establish connection with PSTN through a VOIP carrier's network.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We will follow subsequent steps to establish our VOIP network.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Step 1</b>: Setup miniSipServer. Following figure describe it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Step 2</b>: Connect local users to miniSipServer.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Step 3</b>: Connect miniSipServer to VOIP providers' network.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Step 4</b>: Configure some wonderful advance services for our small company, such as auto-attendant, ring group and pick-up.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3385998300716176663" name="Configuration" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></a>4. Configuration</span></h2>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3385998300716176663" name="step1" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></a>4.1 Step1: setup miniSipServer</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This step could be the easiest one in our configuration. We can download the miniSipServer SETUP file from<a href="http://www.myvoipapp.com/download" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">http://www.myvoipapp.com/download</a>. The latest version is 2.5.4 now.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">There are several kinds of miniSipServer, such as 20 client, 50 clients etc. For example, "100 clients" version can support 100 extensions. Since there are only two members in our scenario, "20 clients" version is enough.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Before we install miniSipServer, please make sure that the PC based on Windows and network are work well firstly.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">After that, please click the .EXE file to setup miniSipServer and run it! It is unnecessary to configure anything! So easy!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">If everything is fine, the miniSipServer should run as following figure.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img alt="MSS main window" name="MSS main window" src="http://www.myvoipapp.com/docs/faq/setup_ippbx_for_small_business_step_by_step/4_1__1.jpg" /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3385998300716176663" name="step2" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></a>4.2 Step2: connect local users to miniSipServer</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">When miniSipServer is installed, it will create three default extensions automatically. Please click button "local users" in main window to check it. The default password for these extensions are also 100, 101 and 102.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img alt="local user window" name="local user window" src="http://www.myvoipapp.com/docs/faq/setup_ippbx_for_small_business_step_by_step/4_2__1.jpg" /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We begin to configure Holly's softphone to connect miniSipServer.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Holly use Xlite 4 as her softphone. The Xlite4 is a wonderful SIP client and can be download from<a href="http://www.counterpath.net/x-lite.html" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">http://www.counterpath.net/x-lite.html</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">After install Xlite, please click menu "Softphone -> Account settings".</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img alt="xlite account configuration" name="xlite account" src="http://www.myvoipapp.com/docs/faq/setup_ippbx_for_small_business_step_by_step/4_2__2.jpg" /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In the pop-up window, please add a SIP account like following figure.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img alt="xlite account property" name="xlite account property" src="http://www.myvoipapp.com/docs/faq/setup_ippbx_for_small_business_step_by_step/4_2__3.jpg" /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The key configurations are described as:</span></div>
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User ID</div>
</td> <td><div style="line-height: 15px;">
100</div>
</td></tr>
<tr valign="TOP"><td><div style="line-height: 15px;">
Domain</div>
</td><td><div style="line-height: 15px;">
192.168.1.110</div>
</td></tr>
<tr valign="TOP"><td><div style="line-height: 15px;">
Password</div>
</td><td><div style="line-height: 15px;">
100</div>
</td></tr>
<tr valign="TOP"><td><div style="line-height: 15px;">
Authorization name</div>
</td><td><div style="line-height: 15px;">
100</div>
</td></tr>
<tr valign="TOP"><td><div style="line-height: 15px;">
Register with domain and receive call</div>
</td><td><div style="line-height: 15px;">
Yes</div>
</td></tr>
<tr valign="TOP"><td><div style="line-height: 15px;">
Send outbound via</div>
</td><td><div style="line-height: 15px;">
domain</div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Please click 'OK' button to complete the Xlite configuration. Xlite will try to register to miniSipServer. If it successes, it should display 'Available' information.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img alt="xlite ready" name="xlite ready" src="http://www.myvoipapp.com/docs/faq/setup_ippbx_for_small_business_step_by_step/4_2__4.jpg" /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Now, Holly's extension has connected to miniSipServer rightly. We can follow the same step to configure G.T' extension. If you have other kinds of SIP clients/phones, they should also be configured same information.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Both Holly and G.T' extensions have been connected to miniSipServer. We can show miniSipServer' local user information to check their status. Their icons should be blue.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img alt="local users ready" name="local users ready" src="http://www.myvoipapp.com/docs/faq/setup_ippbx_for_small_business_step_by_step/4_2__5.jpg" /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">After we finish this step, the basic VOIP network is established. Holly and G.T can call each other. Holly can dial '101' to call G.T, and G.T can also dial '100' to call Holly.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3385998300716176663" name="step2_1" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></a>4.2.1 Add a new extension in miniSipServer</span></h4>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In above configuration, we use the default extensions '100' and '101'. In future, with the growth of company, more and more people will join with us, we need add more extensions to support them. So we can do as following:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In the 'local users information' window, please click 'Add' button to add a new extension.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img alt="add a new local user" name="4_2_1__1" src="http://www.myvoipapp.com/docs/faq/setup_ippbx_for_small_business_step_by_step/4_2_1__1.jpg" /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img alt="new local user configuration" name="4_2_1__2" src="http://www.myvoipapp.com/docs/faq/setup_ippbx_for_small_business_step_by_step/4_2_1__2.jpg" /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In normal, we can just assign extension number and password to a new extension. The new employee can use this new account information to configure his/her Xlite or SIP phones.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3385998300716176663" name="step3" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></a>4.3 Step 3: connect miniSipServer to VOIP provider</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It is so easy to establish internal VOIP network and Holly and G.T enjoy it. It is time to establish connection with customers now.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In normal, if we want to make call to outside or receive a call from outside, we need a VOIP gateway connect our miniSipServer and traditional telephone or we need VOIP provider to do it for us. We decide to connect our miniSipServer to VOIP providers' network and we select <a href="http://www.broadvoice.com/" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">BroadVoice</a> as our VOIP provider.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">After we request a SIP account from BroadVoice, for example, the account is '723123456', we will use use this account to configure miniSipServer to connect BroadVoice.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In the miniSipServer main window, please click button 'External lines' to add an external line information.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img alt="external lines" name="4_3__1" src="http://www.myvoipapp.com/docs/faq/setup_ippbx_for_small_business_step_by_step/4_3__1.jpg" /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In the pop up window, please click button 'Add' to add an external line with BroadVoice account information.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img alt="external line configuraton" name="4_3__2" src="http://www.myvoipapp.com/docs/faq/setup_ippbx_for_small_business_step_by_step/4_3__2.jpg" /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The key informations are described as below table. Of course, you can update it according to your own configuration.</span></div>
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External line</div>
</td><td><div style="line-height: 15px;">
7321234567</div>
</td></tr>
<tr valign="TOP"><td><div style="line-height: 15px;">
Password</div>
</td><td><div style="line-height: 15px;">
1234</div>
</td></tr>
<tr valign="TOP"><td><div style="line-height: 15px;">
Peer server address</div>
</td><td><div style="line-height: 15px;">
<a href="http://sip.broadvoice.com/">sip.broadvoice.com</a></div>
</td></tr>
<tr valign="TOP">  <td><div style="line-height: 15px;">
Peer server port</div>
</td><td><div style="line-height: 15px;">
5060</div>
</td></tr>
<tr valign="TOP"><td><div style="line-height: 15px;">
Share outgoing call with other local users</div>
</td><td><div style="line-height: 15px;">
Yes</div>
</td></tr>
<tr valign="TOP"><td><div style="line-height: 15px;">
Auto attendant</div>
</td><td><div style="line-height: 15px;">
Yes</div>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Because we hope both Holly and G.T can make outgoing call, we select 'share outgoing call with other local users'.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Here we configure 'auto attendant' to support receiving incoming call from outside.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">If the external line success to connect to peer server ( VOIP provider's network or VOIP gateway), the icon of the external line should be gray and without cross flag.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Then, we describe some details about making outgoing call and receiving incoming call.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3385998300716176663" name="Make_outgoing_call" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></a>4.3.1 Make outgoing call</span></h4>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">As we have confirmed in above sections, Holly and G.T can call each other by dialing their extensions number directly. If we want to make outgoing call to our customers, how can we do it?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Since the external line is connected to VOIP provider's network ( or VOIP gateway), it is no problem to call outside customers, but we have to mention that we need add prefix '9' before we dial our customers numbers. In miniSipServer, prefix '9' is the default outgoing prefix which is used to distinguish call type. For example, if the customer's number is '7321234568', we need dial '<b>9</b>7321234568'.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3385998300716176663" name="Receive_incoming_call" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></a>4.3.2 Receive incoming call</span></h4>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">When we configured external line before, we has indicated 'auto attendant' at the same time. So when the customer calls in, miniSipServer will prompt him/her to enter extension number. For example, once the customer calls "7321234567" ( the external line number provided by VOIP provider and configured in miniSipServer ), he/she will hear "Welcome, please enter extension number" and the customer can enter '100' to call Holly or enter '101' to call G.T.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The benefit of using "auto attendant" to receive incoming call is that the company can provide only one public telephone number to customers and assign different extensions to each employee.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In another way, the default announcement can be modified and replaced. We can change it according to our real requirement, for example, we can change it to "welcome to xxx company,...". Please refer to the "<a href="http://www.myvoipapp.com/docs/mss_services/auto_attendant/index.html" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Automatic attendant</a>" document which has been installed with miniSipServer.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Because miniSipServer uses "RFC2833" DTMF mode to collect the customer's input digits, we must confirm with our VOIP provider that they can support this DTMF mode.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3385998300716176663" name="Advance_configuration" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></a>5. Advance configuration</span></h2>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">When we finish above configurations, we success to establish our basic VOIP system. Is it enough? Of course, no! We want more useful services to support our communication, such as Voice mail, ring group, etc.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Here, we just have a brief look at these services in this document. We can refer to their own service guide documents or visit miniSipServer official website for <a href="http://www.myvoipapp.com/docs/index.html" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">details</a>. The service guide documents are installed with miniSipServer at the same time.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3385998300716176663" name="voice_mail" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></a>5.1 Voice mail</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sometime we maybe miss some important call because we have left the office. That means the business is possible gone! How to avoid this? The answer is voice mail. We hope the customer can leave their voice message and the miniSipServer mails these voice messages to our e-mail box, so we can check them at any time.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Please refer to the "<a href="http://www.myvoipapp.com/docs/mss_services/voice_mail/index.html" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Voice mail service document</a>".</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3385998300716176663" name="Ringing_group" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></a>5.2 Ringing group</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"Ringing group" is another useful service for our business. For example, when the customer calls Holly, the Holly's phone and the G.T's phone can ring at the same time if they are in the same ring group. So anyone of them can pick up the call.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Please refer to the "<a href="http://www.myvoipapp.com/docs/mss_services/ring_group/service_guide_ring_group.htm" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ringing group service docuemnt</a>"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3385998300716176663" name="faq" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></a>6. FAQ</span></h2>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3385998300716176663" name="faq_sip_port" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></a>6.1 How to change SIP port?</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The default SIP port is 5060 (UDP) which is defined in SIP standard. But in some special scenarios, we need change this port to another, for example 5090.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">To do that, we need modify MSS and SIP phones configurations together.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In MSS, please click menu "data -> system information -> SIP" and change the port. Please refer to following figure.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img alt="SIP port in MSS" name="faq_sip_poprt_mss" src="http://www.myvoipapp.com/docs/faq/setup_ippbx_for_small_business_step_by_step/faq_sip_poprt_mss.jpg" /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">After that, please restart MSS to enable this modification.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In the Xlite (or other SIP phones), we need indicate it to work with the new port. In the SIP account configuration, please set the "domain" to "<a href="http://192.168.1.110:5090/">192.168.1.110:5090</a>":</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3385998300716176663" name="faq_stun" style="color: #0080ff; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></a>6.2 one-way audio or no-way audio problem?</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We are often asked "why I cannot hear peer side?" or "why we cannot hear each other?". The root reason is firewall or NAT(network address translation). In these scenarios, we can often find that MSS and the SIP phones are deployed in an intranet with private IP address.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">First, we need confirm the firewall should not filter the audio streams in our network. For example, windows firewall often do that. We can try to shutdown the firewall and try again. If everything is ok, that means we need add MSS and Xlite to the windows firewall exception list.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">If we still cannot hear each other, we need configure STUN in the SIP phones to process NAT or firewall traversal. In the Xlite, please click menu "Softphons -> Account settings -> Topology". We can configure "Discover public IP address" and configure "<a href="http://stun.xten.com/">stun.xten.com</a>" as the default STUN server.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">BTW, if all your SIP phones are Xlite, you can configure the "Firewall traversal method" to be "auto-detect firewall traversal method using ICE(recommended)".</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">Caller ID Spoofing w/ Asterisk</span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">Caller ID is often thought of as the ultimate way to see who is calling you. People use it to screen calls all the time. When you're able to spoof that number to whatever you would like you can easily defeat human nature of screening out calls from people they don't want to talk to. Besides being able to get in touch with those ignoring your calls it can be an attackers best friend. He or she can simply spoof your bank's number and social engineer you into giving out valuable information. The way people rely on caller ID it is unlikely the victim will realize what has happened until it is far too late.</span></div>
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Prerequisites</h3>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">VoIP service from companies like NuFone or VoicePulse which allow you to use your own PBX</span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://allanfeid.com/content/caller-id-spoofing-w-asterisk#intro" style="color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Introduction</a></span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://allanfeid.com/content/caller-id-spoofing-w-asterisk#final" style="color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Final Thoughts</a></li>
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Introduction</h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">There are 3 main configuration files that need a bit of tweaking to get Asterisk working properly. These are iax.conf, sip.conf, and extensions.conf. The names pretty much tell you what each will be configuring. IAX is Inter-Asterisk Exchange and is the protocol used when connecting two Asterisk servers and is perfect for NAT transversal unlike the nightmare of SIP. SIP is the protocol that software based phones or hardware IP phones use to connect to the Asterisk box and extensions are what process call flow and routing. These configuration files all follow the standard "INI" file type where sections are denoted such as <code style="font: 1em 'Lucida Console',Monaco,'DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;">[section1]</code> and variables under sections are declared simply with <code style="font: 1em 'Lucida Console',Monaco,'DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;">var=foo</code>.</span></div>
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Configuring Asterisk</h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">First thing we'll cover is setting up the connection to your VoIP provider. Most good providers will give you a sample iax configuration file that you can look over for specifics to your service but in most cases simple open up <code style="font: 1em 'Lucida Console',Monaco,'DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;">/etc/asterisk/iax.conf</code>and add a few lines at the end as follows:</span></div>
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[VoicePulse]<br />
type=peer<br />
host=<a href="http://server.example.voicepulse.com/">server.example.voicepulse.com</a><br />
username=SomeuSer<br />
secret=PaSsWorD</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">The first line there gives this connection a human readable name. The type tells Asterisk what type of connection this will be. Peer lets us know we will be sending calls through this connection. <code style="font: 1em 'Lucida Console',Monaco,'DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;">Host</code>, <code style="font: 1em 'Lucida Console',Monaco,'DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;">username</code>, and <code style="font: 1em 'Lucida Console',Monaco,'DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;">secret</code> are all used to make the connection and authenticate. All of this should be given to you by your provider. As you can see this configuration is very basic and there are tons more options that can be done if this was going to be used in a production environment. The next file we need to edit is<code style="font: 1em 'Lucida Console',Monaco,'DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;">/etc/asterisk/sip.conf</code>.</span></div>
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[sipuser]<br />
type=peer<br />
host=dynamic<br />
username=allan<br />
secret=1234<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">First line is again used to give the connection a name and <code style="font: 1em 'Lucida Console',Monaco,'DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;">type</code> lets Asterisk know we can send calls to this connection and also make calls out. Setting <code style="font: 1em 'Lucida Console',Monaco,'DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;">host</code> to <code style="font: 1em 'Lucida Console',Monaco,'DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;">dynamic</code> ensures Asterisk keeps track of the IP/Hostname of the connection since it uses a dynamic IP. <code style="font: 1em 'Lucida Console',Monaco,'DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;">Username</code> and <code style="font: 1em 'Lucida Console',Monaco,'DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;">secret</code> are the username and password used to make the connection and context is used to simply tell Asterisk which context in the extension configuration to use. This lets Asterisk route the call as needed and be changed for each SIP user if you would like. The last configuration file for Asterisk is located in the same directory and named <code style="font: 1em 'Lucida Console',Monaco,'DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;">extension.conf</code>. Open it up and add the following to the end:</span></div>
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[outgoing]<br />
exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX,1,SetCallerID(2024561111)<br />
exten => _1NXXNXXXXXX,n,Dial(IAX2/VoicePulse/${EXTEN})</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">Once again the first line is used to give a name to our settings. In this case it is called a context and that is what Asterisk uses to place calls based on your own rules. The next two lines will match any 1 + 10 digit US number. The N's and X's are basically just wild cards N matching any digit greater than 2 and X matching any at all. The 1 tells Asterisk to do that command first and the n is used to say "do this next" is basic terms. <code style="font: 1em 'Lucida Console',Monaco,'DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;">SetCallerID()</code> is the key to spoofing caller ID. Here you can change the number to whatever you would like but most providers require a 10 digit number while others will let you even set your caller ID to numbers like 911. The next command is <code style="font: 1em 'Lucida Console',Monaco,'DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;">Dial()</code> which is what we use to send off the call. The arguments used tell Asterisk to use the IAX2 protocol to our VoicePulse connection and to route the call to what we've dialed. <code style="font: 1em 'Lucida Console',Monaco,'DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;">${EXTEN}</code> is just a global variable used for the number dialed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">Everything should now be setup correctly and ready to use. The only thing left to configure is your softphone or IP phone depending what you are using. This is specific to individual phones and out of the scope of my project but essentially you tell your phone to connect to your Asterisk server. Often times from experience softphones will refer to this as "releam" or "domain" depending what phone you use (I recommend X-Lite or Twinkle). Besides that it will just ask for your username and password which were setup in <code style="font: 1em 'Lucida Console',Monaco,'DejaVu Sans Mono',monospace;">sip.conf</code>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b>CID Spoofing In Action</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">As you can see because of <a href="http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/CallerID" style="color: black; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Caller ID">CNAM</a> it shows the owner of that number as well as the actual number. Sorry about the image quality I could not take a picture of my phone without it being blurry :( but you get the idea.</span><br />
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Final Thoughts</h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">Caller ID spoofing is not illegal in anyway. You should however worry about committing fraud as there are tons of laws against that. The real use of caller ID spoofing is to just trick your friends and have some fun. Don't do anything stupid. This is just information I'm trying to spread in order to show people that you can't always trust what your caller ID says.</span></div>
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