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      Filip
      last edited by

      Thanks you for the fast response.

      Yes I have tried that and it does not work. The firmware running on the router is from what I have seen custom fitted to the ISP and the settings are downloaded automatically from some server which it can not do if I plug it in that way.

      My ISP and VoIP provider is Bredbandsbolaget. I live in Sweden.

      If my question is in the wrong place, how do I move it?

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      • chpalmerC
        chpalmer
        last edited by

        Try this-

        Go to your pfSense gui at -  /system_advanced_firewall.php

        Go to the bottom to the TFTP Proxy.  Select "LAN" and then save.  See if that works for you…

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        • chpalmerC
          chpalmer
          last edited by

          Once you make this change make sure to reboot the voip device and let it sit for up to a good half hour.  They can sometimes take a while to request their config file.

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            Filip
            last edited by

            I set TFTP to lan and will see if anything happens.

            But i suppose I have to open one or a few ports to let calls through, right? Or will TFTP take care of that too?

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            • chpalmerC
              chpalmer
              last edited by

              pfSense rewrites the source port and TFTP transfers such as your VOIP device uses to get its config file do not like that.

              Its hard to tell if your VOIP provider will require any rules or not. It depends on how they are set up.

              With one provider I need rules, the other I do not.  Ive actually quit the one that doesn't need rules and ported those numbers to the one that does.

              No NAT rules however.  You should not need inbound NAT to a VOIP ATA (client device) these days.

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                Filip
                last edited by

                After trying what you suggested I found that the WAN LED on the router lit up orange instead of green as it does if I plug in straight into the wall.
                Although it still functions and provides internet access to a computer I plugged into its LAN for testing. It did however not download any
                configuration files or made any changes to the settings as it should have done according to my ISP’s website during the time I had it plugged in.
                It is possible that it tries to receive something but fails as the WAN light flashes rapidly in bursts when plugged in to the pfsense box even if nothing is connected to it.

                It is possible it needs to be port forwarded. I did a port scan and found out that several ports were open by default in the router.
                This was scanned from inside its own LAN and there were nothing open from the WAN side. This is also right after a reset.

                21      filtered  ftp
                22      open      ssh
                23      filtered  telnet
                53      open      domain
                80      open      http
                443      filtered  https
                7676    open      imqbrokerd
                10000  open      snet-sensor-mgmt
                10001  open      scp-config
                49152  open

                All open on tcp.

                It might not be necessary but I did it just in case it would be important and overlooked later on.

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                • johnpozJ
                  johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                  last edited by

                  if the provider of this box can not provide you with the ports it requires if behind a firewall I would question that for sure - maybe the 1st level guy were talking about just didn't know.  Ask to talk to an engineer.

                  Your other option is to sniff on pfsense interface this box is connected to and see what it is trying to do.

                  Or other option put this box in front of pfsense for your voip stuff, and make pfsense behind its nat..  Just forward all ports on your zyxel to pfsense wan IP, or make pfsense wan IP the dmz host, etc.  Or turn it into a bridge, where pfsense would get your public IP but voip would still be handled by the device.

                  Other option is enable UPnP on pfsense so it can forward the ports it needs on pfsense.

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                    Filip
                    last edited by

                    I will try to get the ports by either sniffing them or calling the support again. I have asked to talk to a next level person, but there are none available. At all, they say at least.
                    I once got a number from them to an in depended company that knew more but took extra money for me calling in.

                    Meanwhile, is it possible to create a "transparent" interface that forwards the wan address to trick VoIP modem that it is the first, while actually pfsense is the first line?
                    I would like to do it like that because configuring the zyxel to act like a bridge is slowing down my network speed by a fair amount. It is not, or at least mine is not very fast.

                    How the ISP wants me to plug it all in:
                    ISP – zyxel – pfsense – LAN
                                    \ – Phone

                    How I would like it to be:
                    ISP – pfsense – LAN
                                      \ – zyxel – Phone

                    I do not know if it would work but I imagine I would be able to open every port in that interface to not block anything and still be safe on my LAN.

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                      Filip
                      last edited by

                      And thanks to you for helping me as well.

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                        Filip
                        last edited by

                        I scanned my network traffic while calling in and out and saw a reference to port 5060.
                        I saw some protocols that were used:

                        • TCP

                        • SIP

                        • RTP

                        • TRCP

                        • Syslog

                        I also saw, while looking at the packets that were sent first during calls out and found, a reference to an md5 hash (supposedly a password), so I will not be filling in the information manually for some time.
                        The traffic flowed to a remote host that I could not ping and from a host other that my own IP.

                        This was done by making another computer a bridge with sniffing tools running on it and the zyxel connected to the forwarded port from the bridge.

                        So plugged everything back and I tried to open some ports in pfsense and point them to the zyxel router, but with no luck. Nothing is getting through.

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                        • johnpozJ
                          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                          last edited by

                          You do understand that pfsense can sniff traffic on any interface, there is a gui to do it under diag.  If you need to sniff on multiple interfaces at the same time I find it easier to just ssh to pfsense a few times and run whatever tcpdump I want in each shell, etc.

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                            Filip
                            last edited by

                            Yes, I do know that. It is just so that the zyxel router does not function as it should when behind pfsense. No the phone instantly returns an error sound without even transmitting anything.

                            So I wonder how I would create an interface that just passes all data along with my external ip address that I can connect the zyxel to?
                            That is the only solution I can think of.

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                            • johnpozJ
                              johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                              last edited by

                              that would be a 1:1 nat, but you would need more than 1 public IP if you wanted to send any other inbound traffic to anything else.

                              Just put the zyxel in front of pfsense would be easier solution.

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                                Filip
                                last edited by

                                Okay. If that is the best and easiest way to do it except putting the zyxel in front of everything else, let’s pretend I now have two IP-addresses with one connected to the phone.
                                What would I do to transfer data coming from the phone address to its router and keep the other address to the other interface?

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                                • chpalmerC
                                  chpalmer
                                  last edited by

                                  I would just try creating a second LAN interface first.

                                  Id be very surprised if you had to port forward anything at all but instead you just need firewall rules to allow the traffic.

                                  Do you have an available interface on your firewall that you can use?

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                                  • chpalmerC
                                    chpalmer
                                    last edited by

                                    Further my bet is a couple of WAN rules pointed at your device's LAN address would work as well but Ive started putting all my voip devices on a secondary interface as well just for ease and to be able to segregate traffic for statistical purposes.

                                    Question-  Do you have admin access to your Zytel device?

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                                      Filip
                                      last edited by

                                      Yes, I have an excess interface and I turned it into a new LAN with the same configuration as my other one, created when I installed pfsense.
                                      I works just fine for everything except my VoIP.

                                      I have access to my zyxel router but it is limited. I cannot update the firmware and view the VoIP configuration. That is all managed my ISP.
                                      But I might be able to get them to do some things for me in I am not able to. There might be more settings that I am not capable of changing that I am not aware of.

                                      I also just phoned my ISP and asked about IP-addresses and they told me I am able to get up to 5 with my current subscription.

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                                        Filip
                                        last edited by

                                        I want to make this interface a straight hole into the internet with no nat or firewall so that something from my end can get an external IP-address from my ISP and sent data through pfsense.
                                        In other words I want it to act like a switch.

                                        I am not a pro so I need some help from someone who that can tell me how this may be done.

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                                        • chpalmerC
                                          chpalmer
                                          last edited by

                                          You have a public IP on the WAN of your pfSense box right?

                                          If the only thing plugged into that interface is your VOIP device then simply create a WAN rule pointed at that interface and allow all.

                                          Interface-  WAN

                                          TCP/IP-    IPv4

                                          Protocol-  TCP/UDP

                                          Source-  Any

                                          Source Ports  Any

                                          Destination-  (Id make this your device's Local IP.)

                                          Destination Ports -  Try 5060 and 5061 first and see if it will connect

                                          In order to do what your asking you would have to bridge that interface to the WAN and you would still need rules between them. You would also need a second public IP address for your VOIP device.  Its much more complicated if your not familiar.

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                                          • chpalmerC
                                            chpalmer
                                            last edited by

                                            On the outbound NAT rules for that interface you might also make the whole interface Static Port…  Some providers still need this although only a few from what Ive seen.

                                            https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=84339.0

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