The second beta of sipXecs 3.7.6 is available at sipxecs.sipfoundry.org/temp/sipXecs/ISO. The liveCD is now based on Fedora Core 6 and installs a complete sipXecs 3.7.6 system ready to go. It even allows for the setup of a distributed (high availability) sipXecs system. The liveCD comes preconfigured with an XFCE desktop to limit dependencies and resource requirements. Firefox is used to access the sipXconfig web UI. All you need is a spare machine and one or more phones and gateways.

The laptop I tested sipXecs on does not have a gigabit interface but - for some reason - the liveCD binds eth0 to the Intel GigE driver. sipXecs failed to start properly because the networking configuration was invalid and the eth0 device was not available on the machine.

I had to remove the configuration for eth1 (rm /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1) and enable eth0 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 by adding the MAC address of eth0 to HWADDR=. Restarting networking with /etc/init.d/network restart, then sipXecs with /etc/init.d/sipxpbx restart gave me a fully working system.

Remember to choose another domain (one which does not have an SRV record for an already running SIP proxy) and let sipXecs setup its own DNS or the initscript will warn about the SIP SRVs pointing to the other proxy.

Depending on the speed of the machine it may take a while until all services are started. Keep that in mind before trying to figure out why you cannot connect to the sipXconfig web UI.

Nice job!

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