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Start by creating a new account on the softphone by clicking the New button and filling
out the relevant information. The Host should point to the IP address or domain name
of your Asterisk system, with the username matching that of the value located between
the square brackets [ ] in your iax.conf file. Leave the password field blank, as we did
not configure a secret in iax.conf, and the Caller ID and Number can be set to whatever
you wish. If you want idefisk to register this account on startup, select the “Register on
startup” checkbox. When done, click the OK button to save the new account.
If you clicked the “Register on startup checkbox,” then the phone will attempt to reg-
ister to Asterisk. On the Asterisk console you will see output telling you that the phone
has registered:

-- Registered IAX2 'idefisk' (UNAUTHENTICATED) at 127.0.0.1:32771
You can verify your registration with the iax2 show peers command at the Asterisk
console:
localhost*CLI> iax2 show peers
Name/Username Host Mask Port Status
idefisk 127.0.0.1 (D) 255.255.255.255 32771 Unmonitored
1 iax2 peers [0 online, 0 offline, 1 unmonitored]

Configuring the Dialplan for Testing
One final thing to do is confirm dialing through our phone by configuring a simple
dialplan in extensions.conf. You can simply test that you have audio in both directions
by calling extension 500, or you can modify the dialplan we created in the “Setting Up
the Dialplan for Some Test Calls” section of this chapter to place some test calls. If you
also configured a SIP phone at extension 1000 in the previous sections, then the fol-
lowing will not overlap with that, as we’ll be using extension 1001 (unless you
configured multiple SIP extensions, in which case just configure a unique extension
number for your IAX2 softphone):

[globals]
[general]
[default]
exten => s,1,Verbose(1|Unrouted call handler)
exten => s,n,Answer()
exten => s,n,Wait(1)
exten => s,n,Playback(tt-weasels)
exten => s,n,Hangup()

[incoming_calls]
[internal]
exten => 500,1,Verbose(1|Echo test application)
exten => 500,n,Echo()
exten => 500,n,Hangup()

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