i2050 software phone

[katydvr]

I am trying to get 2050 software to work from my laptop at home. I have the ports 5000, 7000, 28000-28511, and 51000-51500 open in my firewall. The softwre connects when opend but it seems like the bcm is unable to route traffice out of my lan to send information back to laptop.
Has anyone seen this?

 

[biv343]

Is the default gateway (or default next hop router in BCM terms) configured to point to the firewall at the BCM location?

VPN would be a better option, as you would not have to expose the BCM's VOIP side to the Internet.

 

[inet2xtreme]

If you home network is on a NAT, that will break it too. Not only do the ports have to be open, but forwarded across the NAT to the computer where the phone is running. I agree though, a VPN is the way to go. On BCM 3.6 & 3.7 and I'm sure a few others, PPTP is an extremely easy way to go. No keycodes required, no BCM programming and it is compatible with the Microsoft Windows OS.

 

[katydvr]

Thanks guys, you are right about VPN, I have VOIP running oat a remote office using IPsec right now with no problems, but I put blinders on trying to make the 2050 work on home without VPN. Didn't even think about it DUH.....