There are several potential benefits to setting up a VPN to your Asterisk server. All traffic is encrypted and you don’t need to open lots of ports in the firewall. Also there are no issues with SIP and NAT as traffic is routed over the VPN tunnel.

This is a pretty advanced setup but here is a walkthrough for setting up a SysAdminMan VPS as an OpenVPN server and then connecting to it with a TP-LINK router running OpenWRT.

Specifically this router is used - http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/?model=TL-WR1043ND. I paid around £40 from Amazon, an absolute bargain for something that will run OpenWRT.

Setting up the router

First you need to flash OpenWRT on to the router. This replaces the original firmware. Here are some instructions for this TP-Link router - http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr1043nd?s. I got version 18 of the router and flashed Backfire 10.03.1-rc6 version of OpenWRT.

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This is part 3 of the video guide for getting started with FreePBX. This follows on from Part 2 which can be found here - http://sysadminman.net/blog/2011/freepbx-video-guide-part-2-outbound-calling-3414

The system used was a clean install of a SysAdminMan virtual server. You can find more details about this here - http://sysadminman.net/sysadminman-freepbx-a2billing-hosting.html

The softphone used is called Blink, this works on both Windows and Linux and you can find more details on that here - http://icanblink.com/

This is part 2 of the video guide for getting started with FreePBX. This follows on from Part 1 which can be found here - http://sysadminman.net/blog/2011/freepbx-video-guide-part-1-creating-an-extension-3395

The system used was a clean install of a SysAdminMan virtual server. You can find more details about this here - http://sysadminman.net/sysadminman-freepbx-a2billing-hosting.html

The softphone used is called Blink, this works on both Windows and Linux and you can find more details on that here - http://icanblink.com/

I’ve written quite a few guides for setting up FreePBX and A2Billing, but they can look a little daunting. So I though I’d have a go at some video tutorials.

The first one is for setting up an extension in FreePBX.

The system used was a clean install of a SysAdminMan virtual server. You can find more details about this here - http://sysadminman.net/sysadminman-freepbx-a2billing-hosting.html

The softphone used is called Blink, this works on both Windows and Linux and you can find more details on that here - http://icanblink.com/