I am in the research phase of building a MESH'able Asterisk using DUNDi Module for installation on OpenWRT/HSMM-MESH. The purpose of this is to provide a MESH'able Tel-Net that is able to connect any extension on any node to one another as long as the target extensions node is connected.

PROGRESS, BUGS & ToDo

     Here I will keeping and log of what I have done, how I have done it, and what is running or NOT running. It will be updated nearly daily, as I will be working on this daily. So Please look back to see what I have done, and at what stage I am at.

Progress:

May 13 2013

• HSMM-MESH Freshly installed on NEW WRT54GS
• POE Modification completed to main board
• Asterisk 1.6.1 w/ VoiceMail, Sounds, and GUI Installed

May 14 2013

• Linksys SPA942 IP Phones Making a connection but being rejected by Asterisk **FIXED**
• Solution : Phones required an updated firmware from Cisco for SIP comparability with Asterisk

May 15 2013

• Phones are talking Locally (On the same node)
• AsteriskGUI is installed and running... But Lacks much use as a GUI :)
• Second Asterisk Node Setup to Match First and is also fully functioning with the Phones

May 18 2013

• Installed Asterisk 1.4 w/ DUNDi support on both nodes
  
• AsteriskGUI is installed and Running again.
• Am able to make connection on individual nodes...

May 28 2013

• DUNDi is now fully functioning
• Ports are all properly forwarded and opened
• Phones properly configured
• We have Telephony contacts across the MESH
  

Bugs:

May 13 2013

• AsteriskGUI not functioning Properly. It will not save the settings, not allowing me to continue past this point in "Making it easy to use". **FIXED**
• Solution : AsteriskGui needed to be installed in the /WWW directory root. I changed the styles.CSS to ast-styles.css . and corrected the pointer in asterisk.HTML to point to ast-styles.css

May 14 2013

• AsteriskGUI Still not functioning, In process of finding an alternate for OpenWRT **FIXED**
• Solution : See above..
• Linksys SPA942 firmware not compatable with asterisk, Updating requiered **UPDATED**
• Solution : Firmware sucessfuly updated to new Cisco version.

May 18 2013

• No able to make call across MESH from node to node.. Keep getting Crypto not loaded error **FIXED**
• Solution : OpenSSL and the Crypto Module for Asterisk needed to be loaded by commenting so in asterisk.conf
  

ToDO

• Make DUNDi run autonomously (Find and rout to newly attached Nodes with Asterisk/DUNDi)
• Establish communications via a tunnel from MESH to MESH
• Build a deployable package/script to ease installation
  

The only thing I have not done is "Study and Implement DUNDi into the HSMM-MESH on TWO Nodes." I am currently working on that now and should have something to you within a wekk.

As for the other items on your list? You shouldn't have any problem. I've sustained multiple 2+ hour calls over the mesh on the same and across different nodes (with hops in-between as well) without any hickups.

Best of luck! Keep me posted.

I just got DUNDi working with HSMM-MESH. Let me dump what I have from the two nodes for us all to sift through.

Some reading for All on just what DUNDi is, and how it works.

http://asteriskdocs.org/en/3rd_Edition/asterisk-book-html-chunk/asterisk-CHP-5.html

Yep, It maps to the other node just fine.  You could have a phone on Node C that is registered to Node A (asterisk+dundi) and call a phone on Node D that is registered to Node B (asterisk+dundi).

Along with opening 5004, 5060, 10000-20000, you will also need to open 4569 on the asterisk+dundi nodes.

Here are the files.

http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/8.09.2/brcm-2.4/packages/asterisk14_1.4.23.1-1.2_mipsel.ipk

Attachments
 DUNDi.zip [5 KB]
 DUNDi_So_Easy.pdf.zip [55 KB]
 Suppliments.zip [54 KB]

You cannot install DUNDi for Asterisk 1.6 with the packages found on OpenWRT. So to fix this problem, I had to downgrade Asterisk by a version. I haven't lost any functionality at all. In fact...I gained a functionality!

watch : http://www.tmcnet.com/tmc/videos/default.aspx?vid=7526

I might have forgotten to mention that you need to uncomment the res_crypto.so module in the /etc/asterisk/modules.conf file and change it to read "load=res_crypto.so" in order for the module to get loaded. Don't forget to restart Asterisk and/or issue a module reload command from Asterisk's CLI afterwords.

sorry... It seems that DUNDi is just not finding the Keys.. in /var/lib/asterisk/keys

when I do a 'dundi show keys' it shows no keys loaded

Every time I reboot the routers /var/lib/asterisk/keys and the keys within them are gone again.

Here is what I am getting :

Asterisk will attempt to rout the call, but I will get a message stating "Everyone is busy"

But nothing comes up on the second node even showing an attempt.

Just a thought, for any in the future who might try this same thing and run into the same problems, is when you fix something, list WHAT fixed it/what you had to do to get it working  :-)

I know how frustrating it can be when I am working a project, run into a problem, google it, and all I get are either "Me too", "I fixed it", "or the dreaded "Why would you want to do that?" posts, with no meat that helps solve it.

I also know how it feels when you have been working some evenings on something, and then it all comes together and works.Great job  !!

Jim

K5KTF