AstRecipes » Connecting to FWD using IAX

It is possible to connect an Asterisk box to FreeWorldDialup using either SIP or IAX2.

This article assumes you already have a working FWD account; if you don't, you can easily create it right on the site.

The following strings must be substituted in the examples:
LOGIN is your FWD number
PASS is your FWD password
INCOMINGFWD is a context created for incoming FWD calls (you can leave it as INCOMINGFWD)
SIP/myphone is a telephone terminal to ring on incoming FWD calls

To use IAX, you have to:
Visit http://account.freeworlddialup.com/index_new.php?section_id=112 to activate your account for IAX

Edit the file /etc/asterisk/iax.conf in your Asterisk box, adding:

in the [General] section (this part enables outgoing calls from you to FWD)
In the same file, add by the end of the file:

(This part enables incoming calls from FWD to you).

In /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf, create a context for INCOMING calls, i.e. calls coming from FWD.

Of course, you can dial any other telephone terminal or do whatever you want. In this case I ring a terminal for 20 seconds and then start voicemail.

In /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf, edit your user context to allow calling FWD:

This way, when I want to dial a FWD number, I start it with 1#, like by typing 1#123456 I call FWD 123456.

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