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use IP phone w/o VPN connection

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Skyfall

Skyfall

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Base on the other threads, I'm trying remotely use a IP softphone 2050. Here is some background:
BCM50 3.0 in the office, in the firewall NAT setting: forwarding UDP 7000, UDP 28000-28511 and UDP 51000-51063 to BCM50, meantime allow traffic through all those ports to BCM in the firewall setting.
Now I can remote register a 2050, the phone come up. But when press intercom, there is no dial tone, if you call somebody, no one can hear each other.

I must miss something, could anyone give me some tips or your way to setup. Thanks.



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Attempted this many times and all the same results as myself. VPN always works. I would suggest getting a VPN client for yout desktop/laptop. Otherwise, you're be working on this forever.

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That is what I told customer today. Just try to find out the reason, I widely open the firewall for BCM and gave a dedicate pub IP to it, still no way voice. Frustrated! Thanks 555 for your suggestion.

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You have to watch for NATs on either end of the call. The IP Phone and BCM exchange information on the IP addresses/ports which they are using and use that to send both voice and signaling packets. Public/Private IP due to a NAT will change those addresses/ports to the point where this will not work.
 
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Thanks SD and Gweb, on i2050 side the firewall is disabled just NAT. But nothiong is configured special for 2050 in the NAT. What should I do with the NAT of i2050 side?

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If you have a NAT on one end (and has to be a Cone NAT) then the two ends go through a mechanism to discover the internal/external addresses. If you have a NAT at both ends, you run into trouble.
 
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Who doesn't use NAT these days..... :(
So guys, if I could set up both ends' port (51000s and 28000s) forwarding to the BCM and the PC running the i2050 respectively, is this gonna work?
Thanks for the reply.

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It should.
No guarantee on call quality.
Any documented solution you see from Nortel always uses VPN. Of course, that may be in an effort to drive sales on their products.

-SD-
 
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Hi SD, even though I had to replace several my our customer's Nortel Contivity into other make's VPN device e.g. SnapGear... The issue with remote IP sets lost dial tone happened a lot if we use Contivitys building VPN tunnel.



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Nortel published a doc called ....
"BCM50e BSR222 Secure Voice & Data For Small Businesses Teleworking Solution Technical Configuration Guide".
Has some good info, nice diagrams, etc.
Good doc. You may want to check it out.

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