Archive for August 15th, 2009
Troy and the Draytek 2820Vn
by starprowler on Aug.15, 2009, under Networking, VoIP
The Draytek 2820Vn is a great device for home and small-offices. It has two WAN ports; ADSL and Ethernet. Excellent VPN capabilities 32 simultaneous VPN tunnels (IPSec, PPTP, L2TP and L2TP over IPSec.)
In order to get point to point voice working either on VPN or LAN you need to ensure that
- the “External IP :” under VoIP -> SIP Accounts is the private IP of the router itself
- the SIP account in use is configured with “Register via LAN/VPN”
- “NAT Traversal Support” is set to “None”
Troy was trying in vain to get voice calls working. We hit on this combination after quite a bit of messing the parameters. The predecessor of the Draytek 2820Vn (the Draytek 2800VG) does not need these fiddly parameters configured and works just fine without these settings. This coupled with the fact that he’s bought 5 of these devices to internetwork the branch offices of a relative’s company, caused this networking boffin a lot of frustration.
Troy has since gone back to meddling with his favourites Cisco and HP ProCurve, thankful to your truly for having helped put this ordeal behind him!
Asterisk and AVAYA
by starprowler on Aug.15, 2009, under VoIP
Some info I posted on ChipOverclock’s blog:
Thot i’d post my experiences with the AVAYA SIP phones.
- The current version of the firmware for the 46xx phones still doesn’t seem to support the message waiting indicator (MWI) light. And as a side-effect of pending voice mail, these phones seem to think they are not registered after a seeming random period of time, refusing to allow outgoing calls. I had to disable voice mail on all extensions with AVAYA phones. Wasn’t too bad, I could live without the MWI.
- The 1.xx version of SIP firmware for the 9620/9630/9640 series of phones would register fine on Asterisk, allow outgoing calls but refuse to accept incoming calls.
- AVAYA have recently release version 2 of the SIP firmware for the 96xx phones. Thought I’d give it a try the other day. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it worked perfectly, including the MWI!! Excellent speaker-phone, and great voice quality.
I’ve been testing it for about 4 days now and am totally happy with the results.
