Landline phone with own router on FTTP

[bruce_miranda]

Just got FTTP and everything is working fine off the VF router. Phone lines are plugged into the VF router, VF router's WiFi is switched off. 3rd party Mesh has been switched to Bridge mode and plugged into the VF's ethernet port.

However I am shocked at how feature poor the VF router is. e.g. There are no Parental controls at all. I know I can get rid of the VF router and plug my own Mesh router into the Openreach ONT, but what about the Landline. 

Are there any 3rd party routers in the market that have a telephone socket at the back to allow the home phone to be plugged in? 

[cf996]

@bruce_mirandayou might be best asking again. I haven't tried using a different proxy server to the one provided so not sure if it will work.

Those I have come across are:

10a.Z4.bbvoice.vodafone.co.uk

xbn.Z2.bbvoice.vodafone.co.uk

09a.Z2.bbvoice.vodafone.co.uk

1733.10.bbvoice.vodafone.co.uk

[Xjacko]

Mine seems to have stopped working this evening. Checked the settings and all looks as before. Perhaps the powers that be have intervened 

[cf996]

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@Xjacko wrote:

Mine seems to have stopped working this evening. Checked the settings and all looks as before. Perhaps the powers that be have intervened 

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You may want to check my previous post. . It could be related to NAT timeout on your router. I would recommend allowing inbound traffic from the subnet below (source port 5060 dest port 5065 )to be forwarded to the HT801. If you do this then you can then change Register Expiration to 60 minutes

"Register Expiration" - 2 minutes

"Reregister Before Expiration" - 15 seconds

Alternatively you can create a DNAT rule from source 195.89.27.0/24 to the HT801's local IP.

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[Xjacko]

Thanks .@cf996. It was all down to user error. I changed my set up here and in doing so blocked my HT801 access. All working again now. Sorry for any inconvenience. 

[chimpzilla1979]

Great to see that Xjacko and cf996 have this working!  The info cf996 has provided has been very useful, thank you.

I'm trying to get this working on a Cityfibre/Vodafone connection and not having much luck. I have a fixed IP address.

I've gone down the Asterisk route, as I've set one up in the past (a long time ago though) as an office PBX.

I've got a Draytek VPN router (this is why I'm not using the VF router) and I've bought an old Intel NUC from ebay to run Asterisk on ubuntu. The Asterisk NUC is sitting behind the NAT. 

I've copied cf996 setup files and changed all the login details for my connection, but Asterisk says "No response from sip:resvoip.vodafone.co.uk' ".
When I try to do a lookup for resvoip.vodafone.co.uk it fails to get resolved. I've changed the DNS servers to the Vodafone ones, rather than Google, but still nothing.
From what I've read cd996's asterisk server is running on his router, whereas mine is behind it. Would this change what the settings needed in Asterisk?
I've also forwarded 5065 to the fixed LAN IP address of my asterisk server.. but this shouldn't stop registration should it, just incoming calls?

One last question for Xjacko, are you on Openreach or Cityfibre? If you're both on Openreach, I'm wondering if there's different servers/details for the different networks.

[chimpzilla1979]

Just one thing to add.

I was given a proxy of 091.Z4.bbvoice.vodafone.co.uk, but that resolves nothing. 

So I've changed it to 09a.Z2.bbvoice.vodafone.co.uk and that does resolve something when I do nslookup -q=SRV 

Still won't register though and resvoip returns nothing

[cf996]

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@chimpzilla1979 wrote:

From what I've read cd996's asterisk server is running on his router, whereas mine is behind it. Would this change what the settings needed in Asterisk?

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Since you are NATed you need to add two extra options under the local_net option in pjsip.conf (under transport-udp).

external_signaling_address = ${insert your public IP}
external_media_address = ${insert your public IP}

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@chimpzilla1979 wrote:

When I try to do a lookup for resvoip.vodafone.co.uk it fails to get resolved. I've changed the DNS servers to the Vodafone ones, rather than Google, but still nothing.

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This host isn't publicly resolvable so don't worry about this, it is only connectivity with the proxy that matters.

I think the Draytek router may have a packet capture facility. I suggest you launch asterisk while recording and see what's happening. In particular you need to check that the DSCP values and source port are not modified.

[chimpzilla1979]

Thanks for that.  

external_signaling_address = ${insert your public IP}
external_media_address = ${insert your public IP}

I have added these, but still no registration. 

I'll have a look at the port mirroring options on the Draytek and capturing with Wireshark to try and work out what is going on.

[chimpzilla1979]

I've captured the data with wireshark. So the proxy address that Vodafone gave me doesn't seem to work at all, so I'm using 09a.Z2.bbvoice.vodafone.co.uk.
That seems to work and resolves a nokia bit of kit at the other end at 195.89.27.199

However, it fails to get a response. 

The REGISTER request is going to port 5060, which I thought it was meant to be 5065 or is that just for the inbound?
DSCP: AF31, ECN: Not-ECT 

[cf996]

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@chimpzilla1979 wrote:

The REGISTER request is going to port 5060, which I thought it was meant to be 5065 or is that just for the inbound?

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For the register packet, the destination port is 5060 and the source port must also be 5065. Can you confirm this?