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Posted by Mike on March 5, 2005, 3:46 pm
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>> John Geddes wrote:
>>> I am trying to set up 4 VOIP numbers for Sipgate - two using the
>>> VOIP ports on a Draytek 2900VG router, and two ports on
>>> aSipura-2000 behind the router.
>>>
>>> The VOIP ports on the Draytek router work fine.
>>>
>>>
>>> The Sipura is more fussy.
>>>
>>> I CAN make the Sipura work, but (so far) only if :
>>>
>>> - I set its address as the DMZ for the router (and that means that
>>> the VOIP ports on the router stop working). I hope that I can set up
>>> individual Port Forwarding to avoid use of DMZ setting but haven't
>>> got that far yet
>>>
>>> - But (crucially) I also have to set the Sipura to use DHCP
>>> addressing on my LAN. It will not offer dialtone if I use a fixed
>>> IP address.
>>> DHCP is fine for testing, but no good long-term, as I need to tell
>>> the router which IP address to use for DMZ/port forwarding, but
>>> using DHCP I cannot be sure that the Sipura would be allocated the
>>> same address again after a power failure - it would presumably
>>> depend upon the sequence in which the various devices rebooted.
>>>
>>>
>>> Looking at the Sipura documentation, I cannot see any help on this
>>> one. Surely most people must be using their Sipura-2000 behind a
>>> router, so wouldn't they want to set a fixed local IP address?
>>>
>>>
>>> Have I got a dud specimen that cannot cope with fixed IP, or is
>>> there some other setting I need to check?
>>>
>>> John Geddes
>>> England
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>> I can't help with the Draytek router, but my Sipura works fine behind my
>> Netgear DM602 modem/router. I initially tried giving it a fixed IP but it
>> didn't work so I set it to use DHCP and it works fine, it's been rebooted
>> several times but always takes the same IP address.
>>
>> BTW there are known compatibility issues on Sipgate with *some* Draytek
>> routers and *some* ATA's, it may be worth an email to Sipgate tech
>> support.
>>
>> Ivor
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>>
> John
> I've got mine behind a USR router with a fixed IP address and it works
> fine.
> I dont have to forward ports either. If you have a UPnP option on the
> draytek make sure its enabled and that should save you having to forward
> anything.
>
> Apologies for the stupid question but when you turn DHCP off in the sipura
> you are setting the gateway and DNS addresses on the same page arent you?
> Roger.
>
>
>
Aaaah, yes. I had turned off DHCP with the voice menu and not looked at
the gateway and DNS addresses. With these appropriately set it does indeed
work with a static IP!
Mike.
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