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Building Telephony Systems with OpenSIPS Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Flavio E. Goncalves, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
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Building Telephony Systems with OpenSIPS Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Flavio E. Goncalves, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu

Overview of this book

OpenSIPS is a multifunctional, multipurpose signalling SIP server. SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is nowadays the most important VoIP protocol and OpenSIPS is the open source leader in VoIP platforms based on SIP. OpenSIPS is used to set up SIP Proxy servers. The purpose of these servers is to receive, examine, and classify SIP requests. The whole telecommunication industry is changing to an IP environment, and telephony as we know it today will completely change in less than ten years. SIP is the protocol leading this disruptive revolution and it is one of the main protocols on next generation networks. While a VoIP provider is not the only kind of SIP infrastructure created using OpenSIPS, it is certainly one of the most difficult to implement. This book will give you a competitive edge by helping you to create a SIP infrastructure capable of handling tens of thousands of subscribers. Starting with an introduction to SIP and OpenSIPS, you will begin by installing and configuring OpenSIPS. You will be introduced to OpenSIPS Scripting language and OpenSIPS Routing concepts, followed by comprehensive coverage of Subscriber Management. Next, you will learn to install, configure, and customize the OpenSIPS control panel and explore dialplans and routing. You will discover how to manage the dialog module, accounting, NATTraversal, and other new SIP services. The final chapters of the book are dedicated to troubleshooting tools, SIP security, and advanced scenarios including TCP/TLS support, load balancing, asynchronous processing, and more. A fictional VoIP provider is used to explain OpenSIPS and by the end of the book, you will have a simple but complete system to run a VoIP provider.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Building Telephony Systems with OpenSIPS Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Plaintext or prehashed passwords


You can store passwords in clear text or as a hash. Storing passwords as hashes is safer. Text or hash passwords are controlled by the opensipsctlrc and opensips.cfg files. The opensipsctlrc file controls the opensipsctl and osipsconsole utilities. It will store the password in plaintext in the password column if the STORE_PLAINTEXT_PW parameter is set to 1 or the HA1 value in the ha1 column is set to 0 (HA1 is a hash, the MD5 computation of user, realm, and password). The calculate_ha1 parameter defines whether MD5 will be computed on the fly or not. When set to 1, it tells the server to use the plaintext passwords from the password column and calculate HA1 on the fly. On the other hand, if set to 0, it tells the server to expect the HA1 strings directly from the HA1 column, and it won't need to calculate them because they are already precalculated. There are two password columns, password_column and password_column_2; the latter is used to store the HA1...