SIP client setup for callcentric, callwithus, and voicestick

SIP client setup for callcentric, callwithus, and voicestick

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SIP client setup for callcentric, callwithus, and voicestick Andrei Alexandrescu (See Websi 02-02-2008
Posted by Andrei Alexandrescu (See Websi on February 2, 2008, 7:28 pm
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Hello,


Hope this is the right forum, if not please advise.

I own a ZyXel P-660R-ELNK DSL modem connected to a Netgear WGR615V
unlocked router. After some fiddling, I managed to make the whole thing
work with Callcentric a few months ago, and have been quite happy since.
The original settings that I believe are salient were:

ZyXel
=====
RIP direction: both
RIP version: RIP-2B
NAT mode: SUA only
SIP ALG: enabled
UPnP: disabled
Security, filtering etc.: no special measures taken

Netgear
=======
SIP proxy: callcentric.com
SIP control port: 5060
SIP local port: 5060
SIP message TOS Value: 68 hex
Starting RTP Port: 16384
RTP Data TOS Value: b8 hex
Use Outbound SIP proxy: yes
Outbound SIP proxy address: callcentric.com
Outbound SIP proxy port: 5060
VAD: no
STUN: no
Register expire time: 30 sec
Registration head start time: 0 sec
DNS server: yes
Primary DNS: 208.67.222.222
Secondary DNS: 208.67.220.220

It all works fine. Now, yesterday I found out that callwithus.com has
better rates for my calling patterns, so I signed up. My new settings were:

ZyXel
=====
unchanged

Netgear
=======
As per http://www.callwithus.com/configuration

The main change from Callcentric was the use of STUN. I tried my account
a number of times (with rebooting the router and the modem, the works),
no avail. I wrote CallWithUs' support and they said they receive no
registration attempts from my account.

I hypothesized that the use of STUN somehow does not go well with the
modem. Could that be the case? To confirm that, I also signed up with
voicestick.com. They don't use STUN. They also are very shy about
publishing their SIP client configuration. I fished one from this forum,
which looks like this:

ZyXel
=====
unchanged

Netgear
=======
SIP proxy: 206.165.50.116
SIP control port: 5060
SIP local port: 5060
SIP message TOS Value: 68 hex
Starting RTP Port: 16384
RTP Data TOS Value: b8 hex
Use Outbound SIP proxy: yes
Outbound SIP proxy address: 206.165.50.116
Outbound SIP proxy port: 5060
VAD: no
STUN: no
Register expire time: 30 sec
Registration head start time: 0 sec
DNS server: yes
Primary DNS: 208.67.222.222
Secondary DNS: 208.67.220.220

However, that didn't work either! So now I'm back to my Callcentric
setup which again works, and I can't understand how neither of the
others work. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks!


Andrei

NMFall 20%
Posted by Balwinder S Dheeman on February 2, 2008, 7:58 pm
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On 02/03/2008 05:58 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
> Hope this is the right forum, if not please advise.
>
> I own a ZyXel P-660R-ELNK DSL modem connected to a Netgear WGR615V
> unlocked router. After some fiddling, I managed to make the whole thing
> work with Callcentric a few months ago, and have been quite happy since.
> The original settings that I believe are salient were:
>
> ZyXel
> =====
> RIP direction: both
> RIP version: RIP-2B
> NAT mode: SUA only
> SIP ALG: enabled
> UPnP: disabled
> Security, filtering etc.: no special measures taken
>
> Netgear
> =======
> SIP proxy: callcentric.com
> SIP control port: 5060
> SIP local port: 5060
> SIP message TOS Value: 68 hex
> Starting RTP Port: 16384
> RTP Data TOS Value: b8 hex
> Use Outbound SIP proxy: yes
> Outbound SIP proxy address: callcentric.com
> Outbound SIP proxy port: 5060
> VAD: no
> STUN: no
> Register expire time: 30 sec
> Registration head start time: 0 sec
> DNS server: yes
> Primary DNS: 208.67.222.222
> Secondary DNS: 208.67.220.220
>
> It all works fine. Now, yesterday I found out that callwithus.com has
> better rates for my calling patterns, so I signed up. My new settings were:
>
> ZyXel
> =====
> unchanged
>
> Netgear
> =======
> As per http://www.callwithus.com/configuration
>
> The main change from Callcentric was the use of STUN. I tried my account
> a number of times (with rebooting the router and the modem, the works),
> no avail. I wrote CallWithUs' support and they said they receive no
> registration attempts from my account.
>
> I hypothesized that the use of STUN somehow does not go well with the
> modem. Could that be the case? To confirm that, I also signed up with
> voicestick.com. They don't use STUN. They also are very shy about
> publishing their SIP client configuration. I fished one from this forum,
> which looks like this:
>
> ZyXel
> =====
> unchanged
>
> Netgear
> =======
> SIP proxy: 206.165.50.116
> SIP control port: 5060
> SIP local port: 5060
> SIP message TOS Value: 68 hex
> Starting RTP Port: 16384
> RTP Data TOS Value: b8 hex
> Use Outbound SIP proxy: yes
> Outbound SIP proxy address: 206.165.50.116
> Outbound SIP proxy port: 5060
> VAD: no
> STUN: no
> Register expire time: 30 sec
> Registration head start time: 0 sec
> DNS server: yes
> Primary DNS: 208.67.222.222
> Secondary DNS: 208.67.220.220
>
> However, that didn't work either! So now I'm back to my Callcentric
> setup which again works, and I can't understand how neither of the
> others work. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks!

I think, your best bet is to try both the services which did not work
with YATE Client (either QT4 or GTK2 version, see http://YATE.null.ro/).
Run this soft-phone from command prompt or a xterm in a verbose/bebug
mode and figure out the problem by looking at the messages.

Hope that helps.
--
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Posted by Andrei Alexandrescu (See Websi on February 2, 2008, 8:30 pm
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Balwinder S Dheeman wrote:
> I think, your best bet is to try both the services which did not work
> with YATE Client (either QT4 or GTK2 version, see http://YATE.null.ro/).
> Run this soft-phone from command prompt or a xterm in a verbose/bebug
> mode and figure out the problem by looking at the messages.
>
> Hope that helps.

Thanks Balwinder, this software looks quite what the doctor prescribed;
my router has no debugging ability. Incidentally I'm originally Romanian
:o).

Andrei

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