Cisco RV320 VPN with Avaya Phones

[WhosYourDiffie]

Hello all,

I have been hunting the internets for a bit now trying to find a solution to this one.

What I have here is a Cisco RV320 and would like to hook a 9608G Avaya phone to it so that we could have a cheaper solution instead of the Cisco ASA 5500X Series.

Now, I'm having a ton of trouble on this so if anyone has any suggestions on what they might have done. From what I've read, there is no way to do this due to its limitations.
OR
What you have used that's a reliable and cheaper-ish solution for Avaya VPN phones that would be INCREDIBLY helpful.

I've been branded as the designated CISCO/VPN guru at the office so I'm really hoping to find a break through.

Thank you in advance friends!!

- WhosYourDiffie

 

[Manie3]

Please do correct me if i am wrong.

You have an avaya system with a X firewall in place at the office.

You have a remote handset with a RV range cisco router at site b.

you would like to connect them together.

If i remember rightly the RV range require a VPN licence once enabled you should be able to set up a site to site vpn with the main office and have the handset register.

Thank you

ACSS

Just another day in the life of ME

 

[rdoubrava]

So you are trying to setup a site to site VPN between a Cisco RV320 and the corporate firewall ?

 

[WhosYourDiffie]

@Manie3 & @rdoubrava

Thank you for your responses.

To answer your questions I'll give you the scoop:

The client is a small business that wishes to have 1 VPN phone at home. I believe they will be getting an Avaya 9608G.

To do this, we usually have a Cisco ASA 5506, as the firewall and VPN connection, set up and put at their office for the phone to connect to.
The Cisco ASA is a very expensive option for someone who is just using one phone so we wanted to find a better more cost effective solution for those that are using just one or two phones.

So we wanted to use a RV320 or something like it to make a more cost effective VPN solution.

So after farting around with the RV320, I can't seem to get the right settings to make this work and I eventually wondered if it would even work at all.

I made a thread, which I will link that asks what you use for Avaya VPN phones. If you'd like to answer there, that would be greatly appreciated!
Link to thread

Thank you again!

 

[Manie3]

Hi

What you need to do is set up a site to site vpn between the rv320 and the office.

The RV320 requires a special VPN licence you can purchase from cisco to enable the VPN feature, this does not come by standard on the RV soho range.

Once this is active you will to ensure the vpn is routed to the phone lan permitting you have segregated the network.

Then on the avaya create an ip route for the home network for instance.

10.0.0.0 (assuming this is the network at home)
255.255.255.0
Default gateway of ipo
via the lan the dfg is connected to.

then you will need a power supply for the handset and it should be able to route to the phone system.

Thank you

ACSS

Just another day in the life of ME

 

[VoIP Numpty]

We got them working with the phone VPN in the past (no extra license needed) but it stopped working after a firmware upgrade so we ended up with an RV320 to RV320 tunnel, it was taking too much time and they were not that expensive.