Vonage Behind a PFSense Firewall How to
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I have a setup using Vonage without any special config…why do you feel that VLANs are necessary?
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I have gotten one of the new vonage router. Without setting up thisway I could not get this working. My old device worked with issue.
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Very strange - I wonder if such an advanced config is necessary even on 'off-the-shelf' Linksys routers and the like. Did you try forwarding any ports in your tests before you went to VLANs?
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i am getting a new vonage adapter within the next day or so after my other one give up the ghost after many years service. afaik, i would create 2 x alias (1 for my voice adapter address and the other for the voip, ntp, ftp ports that vonage requires)
i would then set up forwarding to those aliases.
you could use vlans to segregate the voip traffic but in a home environment is it necessary? -
The problem with this is that it is just like linksys firewall. The vonage device has a single wan and a single lan with 2 phone ports. If you don't connect the lan port to something it will not work.
So my solution was based on the equipment that I have. I created a vlan to isolate the dhcp side of that vonage router away from the rest of my network.
If anyone else has any better solutions I be glad to try it.
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Which router is this? We have 4 Vonage routers with nothing plugged into their lan ports and they work fine… RTP300's
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by the description, i would imagine it's their v-portal device. i would have thought that just the wan connection would suffice as with any other router.
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As I found out by talking to Vonage support it requires a connection to both the wan and lan. It will not work unless they are both connected.
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ummm…..
i've just go the V-Portal (their latest offering in the UK), plugged it in and away it went. I have nothing plugged into lan whatsoever and it's working fine. -
For some reason mine will not connect unless there is something connected. It working and I not making any more changes.
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As I found out by talking to Vonage support it requires a connection to both the wan and lan. It will not work unless they are both connected.
RCMine works fine via a dedicated NIC connected to the WAN port. Nothing on the LAN side.
Val
