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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

Lab – accounting using a FreeRADIUS server


The installation of the FreeRADIUS server is unquestionably a challenge. Several steps have to be strictly followed in order to have a working configuration. To do this, we will divide the installation into the following steps:

  • Installing packages and dependencies

  • Installing FreeRADIUS and radius Client

  • Configuring OpenSIPS

Package and dependencies

To install the RADIUS components, we need to install some libraries and software packages:

  1. For FreeRADIUS, install the following packages:

    apt-get install freeradius libradiusclient-ng2 libradiusclient-ng-dev
    
  2. Compile OpenSIPS to use RADIUS.

  3. Go to the source code and run the configuration command, make menuconfig in /usr/src/opensips_21:

    Select Configure Compile Options | Configure Excluded Modules | aaa_radius:

  4. Compile and install using the menu.

FreeRADIUS client and server configuration

Now, let's configure the RADIUS client and server:

  1. Configure both the client and server to share the same secret.

    In the RADIUS...