VPRI is just a marketing-guy term for a SIP Trunk.... That's all. I too would love to see a Jira on that dropped call issue, I don't recall this one nor do we have any customers screaming about this.
As far as an open source mailing list, it is what it is... That's what we have pay-for support for ;-) Thanks, Mike On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Todd Hodgen <thod...@frontier.com> wrote: > Mike, contrary to what you say here, I specifically am not sure what a VPRI > is, and yes, after your sigh response, I Googled it and tried to find a > definition of what it was exactly. > > With a telco background, PRI is very specific to me. VPRI could be one of > many things, and I really was asking what it was in the frame of your > questions. It wasn't meant to be condescending, and if it was, I > apologize. > > VPRI has nothing to do with me, and apparently is not something that anyone > knows anything about, except the company marketing with that name, so I > will > not respond further on this thread. > > -----Original Message----- > From: sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org > [mailto:sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org] On Behalf Of > m...@grounded.net > Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 8:13 PM > To: sipx-users > Subject: Re: [sipx-users] flowroute VPRI IP authentication > > > Sigh what? Mike, read about PRI - > > Sigh... because you took the time to agree with Tony, giving me grief while > at the same time pointing out that you were not doing that. Of course you > were. Since Tony had already made his point, why did you need to bring it > up > again? > > You then post a separate reply to the original question when just before > that, you told me you didn't know what I was talking about. > > Sigh because as soon as I point out the obvious such as I am now having to > do, a few of you must at all costs have fun with this, turning the persons > post into garbage making points like 'we need to understand'. Does someone > else feel the need still? > > Of course you know what I was asking about, I've seen plenty of people > talking about virtual PRI's. Who the heck would not know that a VPRI might > simply be an abbreviation. Doesn't seem to be at the moment but give it > time > maybe :). > > Bottom line is that there are a few old timers on this list that seem to > feel the need to be hard nosed to people. Why? Maybe a few of the users are > simply too freaking serious for no good reason. Give it a rest. There is no > reason to be like that with ANYONE on this list. > No one makes you reply to anything, you don't have to. If you don't like > how > someone posts something, it's not your place to be the teacher or know it > all and tell them how they need to learn everything about VoIP before ever > taking the chance of using the wrong term while asking a question. God > forbid! > > >That's all I'm saying, and I think that is what Tony was asking - what > >is it exactly. > > A virtual PRI is really just a billing method for a SIP trunk. Figured > pretty much anyone on this list would know that. > The question really was, how do I set up sipx so that I can use IP > authentication to the ITSP over user/password. > > Anyways, moving on... > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org > > [mailto:sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org] On Behalf Of > > m...@grounded.net > > Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 7:08 PM > > To: sipx-users > > Subject: Re: [sipx-users] flowroute VPRI IP authentication > > > > <sigh> > > > > > > On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:55:11 -0800, Todd Hodgen wrote: > >> Yes, but what is a virtual PRI? Since PRI is an ISDN standard, what is > > the > >> non-standard derivative that comes out of a Virtual PRI? What is it > >> exactly? > >> > >> Is it maybe a PRI that is fed out of device that is actually fed via a > T1 > >> with SIP trunks on it? If it is, its still a PRI, conforming to the > PRI > >> standards, as it should. > >> > >> I believe what you are referring to is some companies marketing name > >> they use for a service they provide. I don't think anyone is giving > >> you grief, we just have no idea what you are talking about since we > >> haven't had the pleasure of reading the material you have, and really > >> haven't a clue what this VPRI is. > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org > >> [mailto:sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org] On Behalf Of > >> m...@grounded.net > >> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 3:02 PM > >> To: sipx-users > >> Subject: Re: [sipx-users] flowroute VPRI IP authentication > >> > >> On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:20:57 -0500, Tony Graziano wrote: > >>> I dont know VPRI means. If you use terms noone but you might > >>> understand you might explain it a bit. Throwing that aside... > >>> > >> When I don't use the right terms, I get grief and when I use the > >> terms I'm seeing in docs, I still get grief :). > >> I would have called it Virtual PRI but flowroute itself seems to call > >> it VPRI for short. > >> > >>> flowroute is a two-edged sword: Use the bandwidth.com template and > >>> change the bandwidth.com gateway stuff to your flowroute gateway. > >>> make sure flowroute is swet to send to your ip address and port 5080. > >>> Very > >> simple. > >> > >> I'll take a look at this. > >> > >>> If you use dual wan with flowroute you may have issues if you route > >>> netblocks or providers via specific wan ports. > >>> > >> Flowroute will be the only gateway these sipx servers will know and > have. > >> > >>> flowroute does not control > >>> the majority of their network and hence, RTP does not come from the > >>> same IP as the gateway. You pretty much have to open everything to > >>> use flowroute if you had been in locked down mode. > >>> > >> I didn't know this about them and to date, have always used an IP > >> allow rule for them. > >> Guess I've been lucky, haven't heard of any missed calls. > >> > >> These servers won't have any remote users but I wanted to have a bit > >> of security in place so figured I would block all but > >> sip.flowroute.com. Now I seem to have a new problem. > >> > >> Mike > >> > >> > >>> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:10 PM, m...@grounded.net > >>> <m...@grounded.net> > >>> wrote: > >>>> I need to install 4 separate sipx systems in four separate locations. > >>>> No interoffice communications. > >>> All of the sipx systems could benefit from the use of a VPRI rather > >>> than traditional. > >>> > >>> I use ITSP's for individual lines when we need an area code that our > >>> local telco cannot handle. > >>> On sipx, I usually just create an ITSP device in the gateway > >>> section and let it authenticate via user name/password. > >>> > >>> In this case, due to the number of lines per server (4 to 8), it > >>> doesn't seem like a good idea to authenticate each and every DID > >>> individually for example and would prefer using an IP based > >>> authentication for the whole server. > >>> > >>> > >>>> I'll be using flowroute for the systems but am not sure how to > >>>> configure sipx to authenticate once based on IP over a user > >>>> name/password. I don't see anything which would allow me to do this > >>>> in the Gateway configuration section. > >>>> > >>> > >>>> Can someone shed some light on this please. > >>>> > >>> Thanks very much. > >>> > >>> Mike > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> sipx-users mailing list > >>> sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org > >>> List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/ > >> _______________________________________________ > >> sipx-users mailing list > >> sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org > >> List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/ > > _______________________________________________ > > sipx-users mailing list > > sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org > > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/ > _______________________________________________ > sipx-users mailing list > sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/ > > _______________________________________________ > sipx-users mailing list > sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users/ > -- Michael Picher, Director of Technical Services eZuce, Inc. 300 Brickstone Square**** Suite 201**** Andover, MA. 01810 O.978-296-1005 X2015 M.207-956-0262 @mpicher <http://twitter.com/mpicher> www.ezuce.com
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