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? 

[Ripshod]

Can't edit but just ignore the first line of my previous reply.

[mdbloomfield]

Thanks Luciftian, that's all working now.

The setting was "Outbound Proxy Mode"  and set to Not in Route vs the default of In Route. Enable 100rel got it sorted too.

Takes a little while to register the phone and calls to route through, but just tested by calling from my mobile and it works including the audio

[g7omn]

Other thing to consider is the user agent prefix.

I looked at this on a gxp1620 with wireshark. It prefixes the SIP user agent header, with what you enter, so it will look something like Vox 3.0 GXP1625, so vodafone SIP servers may not like this?

I couldn't get the GXP1620 to register either.

[Kebob]

I'm trying to get my landline up and running after a switch to fttp. I'm using my own router but I thought I'd be able to disable the DHCP on the Vodafone router and just add it in to my network somewhere and then connect my landline to the tel port.

But while I am getting a dial tone,  it's pulsing rather than continuous. And I can't make calls. Receiving calls are greeting with a 'this user's phone is turned off' message.

My landline system is actual a gigaset hub with VoIP, but I doubt I'll get it working directly via sip (my sipgate number is working fine). I have some settings like flash time and dialing mode, but not sure they'll make a difference?

Do I need to forward some ports on my main router to the VF router? Or is this just not going to work?

[g7omn]

I'm assuming you are wanting to connect to the v/f SIP servers?

The v/f router is designed around logging into the SIP servers itself. It's unlikely to support another device (that would require configuring). In addition, its noted higher up in the thread against one of my queries, that the vodafone servers don't support more than one concurrent SIP connection.

So you would need to use another router with ports opened, or SIP ALG enabled, and the gigaset correctly configured for the v/f SIP servers.

[JB-21]

@Kebob if you look at the “Exposed Host Function” when enabled the text below says “

The following ports will not be forwarded: 7547, 22, 5065” so I would try forwarding 7547 (for TR-069) & 5065 from your router to the VF one. Would be interested to know if / what settings you use on the gigaset if you get it working as I’m going to try something similar soon.

[Kebob]

@g7omn My gigaset S850A GO does normal landline and VoIP in one.

I'm trying to get the normal landline portion to use the tel port on the Vodafone hub.

I've just tried it with just the VF router, and it all works fine. But as soon as I switch to my third party router the phone part stops working, the phone light doesn't come on.

@JB-21 

I've forwarded the ports mentioned above and 5060 shows up in the logs when it's working ok, so forwarded that too, but still doesn't work.

I wonder if the internal switching is from the wan port to the tel ports? Rather than the switched lans?

[g7omn]

5060 will be the outbound traffic?

V/f uses 5065 for the inbound sip traffic.

[Kebob]

It just doesn't want to register the connection with the phone.

These are the last logs. Not sure the blue bit is personal, but covered it just incase.

[JB-21]

@Kebob I would connect from LAN port on your router to WAN port on the VF, I’d also initially set it on a DMZ via your router, if that works, you can take it out of DMZ and just opening ports as necessary.