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Is anyone using a SIP phone behind a BT HomeHub (I think that's what
it is) It appears to not work, so I'm either fearing the worst, that
BT are deliberately blocking SIP or that the device comes supplied as
default with some sort of firewall which blocks data and has to be turned
off ... Any clues?

I've not been able to see for myself though - just sent a pre-configured
phone to a friend who has one of these and it's not happy at home,
but works perfecly in his office on a Zen ADSL connection...

Thanks,

Gordon

"Gordon Henderson" <gordon+> wrote in message
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> Is anyone using a SIP phone behind a BT HomeHub (I think that's what
> it is) It appears to not work, so I'm either fearing the worst, that
> BT are deliberately blocking SIP or that the device comes supplied as
> default with some sort of firewall which blocks data and has to be turned
> off ... Any clues?
>
> I've not been able to see for myself though - just sent a pre-configured
> phone to a friend who has one of these and it's not happy at home,
> but works perfecly in his office on a Zen ADSL connection...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gordon
yes - Ive just switched to BT from NTL - the only issue I had was voip.co.uk
stopped working with STUN enabled and I cant conference calls for some
reason, otherwise it works ok.

Gordon Henderson wrote:
> Is anyone using a SIP phone behind a BT HomeHub (I think that's what
> it is) It appears to not work, so I'm either fearing the worst, that
> BT are deliberately blocking SIP or that the device comes supplied as
> default with some sort of firewall which blocks data and has to be turned
> off ... Any clues?
>
> I've not been able to see for myself though - just sent a pre-configured
> phone to a friend who has one of these and it's not happy at home,
> but works perfecly in his office on a Zen ADSL connection...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gordon

I'd be interested to know as well.

It's possible that the homehub router is assuming that any incoming SIP
traffic would be intended for the built-in VoIP client and it's sending
back "not found" responses, I've seen a newer Draytek router do this and
the only way to get VoIP working was to completely disable the router's
internal VoIP stuff. Or like you say, SIP is being blocked altogether!
As an experiment, would you be willing to re-configure his phone to
try to register to one of my Asterisk PBXs? Then I can get a SIP trace
from it and might be able to at least determine what's going on.
Contact me off list using the email below. Or I guess you might already
be able to get a SIP trace yourself from whatever SIP server the phone
is using. If so, would I be able to see it?

cheers,
Paul.
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paul-at-polog40-dot-co-dot-uk

In article <46cc0045$0$639$>,
Paul Hayes <> wrote:
>Gordon Henderson wrote:
>> Is anyone using a SIP phone behind a BT HomeHub (I think that's what
>> it is) It appears to not work, so I'm either fearing the worst, that
>> BT are deliberately blocking SIP or that the device comes supplied as
>> default with some sort of firewall which blocks data and has to be turned
>> off ... Any clues?
>>
>> I've not been able to see for myself though - just sent a pre-configured
>> phone to a friend who has one of these and it's not happy at home,
>> but works perfecly in his office on a Zen ADSL connection...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gordon
>
>I'd be interested to know as well.
>
>It's possible that the homehub router is assuming that any incoming SIP
>traffic would be intended for the built-in VoIP client and it's sending
>back "not found" responses, I've seen a newer Draytek router do this and
>the only way to get VoIP working was to completely disable the router's
>internal VoIP stuff. Or like you say, SIP is being blocked altogether!
> As an experiment, would you be willing to re-configure his phone to
>try to register to one of my Asterisk PBXs? Then I can get a SIP trace
>from it and might be able to at least determine what's going on.
>Contact me off list using the email below. Or I guess you might already
>be able to get a SIP trace yourself from whatever SIP server the phone
>is using. If so, would I be able to see it?

Well the phone is using one of my own Asterisk servers, and I did manage
to get a trace - briefly and it was full of "stale nonce" messages,
so SIP requests were getting out from the phone to the server, but it
seemed that nothing was getting back to the phone. Time wasn't on our
side yesterday as he just brough the phone home to show his partner what
his new office phone system can do (but failled miserably).

But since it works in his office which is where it's supposed to work,
I'm not overly concerend right now, but it might be a warning sign for
the future if customers are behind a BT HomeHub system...

And I have older Draytek 2600VG's which seem to pass SIP traffic through
OK, even with the VoIP ports in-use... Why do people break stuff!!!

Gordon

In article <>,
Roger <> wrote:
>
>"Gordon Henderson" <gordon+> wrote in message
>news:46cbd8f0$0$21089$.. .
>> Is anyone using a SIP phone behind a BT HomeHub (I think that's what
>> it is) It appears to not work, so I'm either fearing the worst, that
>> BT are deliberately blocking SIP or that the device comes supplied as
>> default with some sort of firewall which blocks data and has to be turned
>> off ... Any clues?
>>
>> I've not been able to see for myself though - just sent a pre-configured
>> phone to a friend who has one of these and it's not happy at home,
>> but works perfecly in his office on a Zen ADSL connection...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gordon
>yes - Ive just switched to BT from NTL - the only issue I had was voip.co.uk
>stopped working with STUN enabled and I cant conference calls for some
>reason, otherwise it works ok.

Hm. I wonder if they're like the Juniper netscreens where you need to
turn the SIP ALG off because it's broken - but maybe it's actually
working here - the phone did have stun enabled...

Gordon

Gordon Henderson wrote:
>
> Well the phone is using one of my own Asterisk servers, and I did manage
> to get a trace - briefly and it was full of "stale nonce" messages,
> so SIP requests were getting out from the phone to the server, but it
> seemed that nothing was getting back to the phone. Time wasn't on our
> side yesterday as he just brough the phone home to show his partner what
> his new office phone system can do (but failled miserably).
>
> But since it works in his office which is where it's supposed to work,
> I'm not overly concerend right now, but it might be a warning sign for
> the future if customers are behind a BT HomeHub system...
>
> And I have older Draytek 2600VG's which seem to pass SIP traffic through
> OK, even with the VoIP ports in-use... Why do people break stuff!!!
>
> Gordon

Yep, sounds very much like what was happening with a customer of mine
with a newer (2900 if I remember correctly) Draytek router. The phone
behind it was sending SIP out OK, but then any SIP going back towards
the ip phone, the router would just stupidly assume that the message was
for it and reply with things like "Not Found Here" in the SIP trace.
This happened until I completely disabled the VoIP ports on the router
(now I can't remember if I had to telnet to it or not).

I realised what was going on when I noticed what was in the "User Agent"
header in SIP replies coming back to the server.

cheers,
Paul.
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Working Email:

paul-at-polog40-dot-co-dot-uk

Roger wrote:
> yes - Ive just switched to BT from NTL - the only issue I had was
> voip.co.uk stopped working with STUN enabled and I cant conference calls
> for some reason, otherwise it works ok.


You shouldn't use Stun with voip.co.uk.

Tim

"Tim" <> wrote in message
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> Roger wrote:
>> yes - Ive just switched to BT from NTL - the only issue I had was
>> voip.co.uk stopped working with STUN enabled and I cant conference calls
>> for some reason, otherwise it works ok.
>
>
> You shouldn't use Stun with voip.co.uk.
>
> Tim
I know but its worked fine for 2 years with a linksys router and I needed it
as the second line was with another provider.

Recently, Gordon Henderson popped out over the fence
around uk.telecom.voip and said...
|Is anyone using a SIP phone behind a BT HomeHub (I think that's what
|it is) It appears to not work, so I'm either fearing the worst, that
|BT are deliberately blocking SIP or that the device comes supplied as
|default with some sort of firewall which blocks data and has to be turned
|off ... Any clues?
|
|I've not been able to see for myself though - just sent a pre-configured
|phone to a friend who has one of these and it's not happy at home,
|but works perfecly in his office on a Zen ADSL connection...
|
|Thanks,
|
|Gordon
|
Well, if I'm not wrong, in the BT HomeHub admin GUI you can set up
umpteen SIP accounts... Hmmm, nope, that was for the old firmware
versions. However, you could be a lucky owner of an old version. Follow
the manual to get access to the Admin web interface (username/ password
are .... admin / admin )

<http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/homehub.html> says a lot, but not that,
let me google a bit more...

There you go,
http://www.homehubhacks.co.uk/index....IPUsingSIPGATE

Happy now?
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In article <>,
Jono <> wrote:
>It happens that Gordon Henderson formulated :
>> Is anyone using a SIP phone behind a BT HomeHub (I think that's what
>> it is) It appears to not work, so I'm either fearing the worst, that
>> BT are deliberately blocking SIP or that the device comes supplied as
>> default with some sort of firewall which blocks data and has to be turned
>> off ... Any clues?
>>
>> I've not been able to see for myself though - just sent a pre-configured
>> phone to a friend who has one of these and it's not happy at home,
>> but works perfecly in his office on a Zen ADSL connection...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gordon
>
>Hi Gordon,
>
>Did you eventually get anywhere with this?
>
>May have to attempt it myself shortly with one of the newer hub
>incarnations.

This was some time back, but I think I replaced it with a cheapo
DLink. I've sent out a few DLink boxes recently for people who won't pay
for a Draytek. They don't have traffic shaping as such - they claim QoS,
but I've yet to find an ISP that would honour it through their network,
but these are small businessy types. Still need to turn off the SIP ALG
in the DLinks though.

Just had a Zyxel blow-up on a client too. Back to Draytek for them. The
2820 is looking OK these days. more and more I'm thinking of enabling
all the routing, pppoe, traffic shaping functions, etc. in my DSX and
just installing a dumb ADSL modem. Think of it as a Fritz box on steroids
....

Gordon