Can I run Vonage through Internet Sharing on OSX?
February 25, 2006 12:04 PM Subscribe
Can I run Vonage through Internet Sharing on OSX?
My cable is out for the next day or so. I have my desktop Mac latched onto a Friendly Neighborhood Unsecured Wireless Router, which provides decent throughput. I have Internet Sharing enabled (via Ethernet), and can run my Dell laptop through it. When I hook up my Vonage router (Linksys, the one they send you), it won't connect and activate the phone.
Will Vonage simply not run through that setup, or is there something I can do to get my landline working? I also have a Netgear router I normally use for everything, but can't seem to figure out how to make it a relay point for another base station.
My cable is out for the next day or so. I have my desktop Mac latched onto a Friendly Neighborhood Unsecured Wireless Router, which provides decent throughput. I have Internet Sharing enabled (via Ethernet), and can run my Dell laptop through it. When I hook up my Vonage router (Linksys, the one they send you), it won't connect and activate the phone.
Will Vonage simply not run through that setup, or is there something I can do to get my landline working? I also have a Netgear router I normally use for everything, but can't seem to figure out how to make it a relay point for another base station.
You need to forward specific ports to the Vonage... I don't know if OSX supports that. For my specific adapter, I forward ports 5061 and 10050 through 10061 to the phone adapter.
I'm being lazy and forwarding both TCP and UDP ports... but I'd guess you'd need to forward 5061 TCP and 10050 through 10061 UDP. I have not tested that configuration, however... I forward all the ports in both protocol flavors.
With the port forwarding, it works nicely behind my OpenBSD firewall.
posted by Malor at 1:23 PM on February 25, 2006
I'm being lazy and forwarding both TCP and UDP ports... but I'd guess you'd need to forward 5061 TCP and 10050 through 10061 UDP. I have not tested that configuration, however... I forward all the ports in both protocol flavors.
With the port forwarding, it works nicely behind my OpenBSD firewall.
posted by Malor at 1:23 PM on February 25, 2006
I just adjusted my firewall and did a couple of calls, both incoming and outgoing. It seems to work fine with 5061 TCP and 10050 through 10061 UDP.
posted by Malor at 1:29 PM on February 25, 2006
posted by Malor at 1:29 PM on February 25, 2006
Response by poster: I could try rinetd, but how do I discover my Vonage router's IP? It claims 192.168.15.1 as its default, but that's unreachable from my Mac.
posted by mkultra at 1:35 PM on February 25, 2006
posted by mkultra at 1:35 PM on February 25, 2006
Far as I can tell you don't have to actually forward any ports to get the Vonage box to work. I never did and it (and the Sunrocket box I replaced it with) have always worked fine. I believe the Vonage box simply establishes an IP connection from inside your firewall and leaves it up more or less permanently. Since it's established from inside the firewall no port forwarding is needed, and since it's always up it can be used for signaling from the CO.
posted by kindall at 2:26 PM on February 25, 2006
posted by kindall at 2:26 PM on February 25, 2006
The Vonage phone thinks your network is the Internet, so it won't answer pings and the like. As far as it's concerned, everything on the 'outside' interface is potentially hostile, and your Mac is on the outside.
Even if it doesn't answer pings, it will still be answering at the ARP layer. If you have just the phone behind your Mac, powercycle it (to force a DHCP refresh, which will update your ARP cache). Open a command prompt, and type arp -a.
You should see only one IP address listed (along with a lot of other stuff)... that's the IP of your phone. Aim your ports there.
posted by Malor at 7:29 PM on February 25, 2006
Even if it doesn't answer pings, it will still be answering at the ARP layer. If you have just the phone behind your Mac, powercycle it (to force a DHCP refresh, which will update your ARP cache). Open a command prompt, and type arp -a.
You should see only one IP address listed (along with a lot of other stuff)... that's the IP of your phone. Aim your ports there.
posted by Malor at 7:29 PM on February 25, 2006
Also note... you have two network ports on your phone. One is 'inside', and will let you administer it, and one is 'outside'. To get it to work as a phone, you need to connect your Mac to the 'outside' jack.
posted by Malor at 7:37 PM on February 25, 2006
posted by Malor at 7:37 PM on February 25, 2006
Just a reminder that you can use the Vonage web control panel to forward your calls to a cell phone if you've got one.
posted by undertone at 8:38 PM on February 25, 2006
posted by undertone at 8:38 PM on February 25, 2006
Response by poster: Well, I managed to get a somewhat-usable connection when I did the same thing through my XP laptop and turned off the Firewall (bad, I know, but I only left it open long enough to make the call). Same settings on OSX got me nada, and I couldn't get any useful addresses out of arp.
For once, I'm thankful for weaker security on Windows ;). Thanks for your help, everyone...
posted by mkultra at 7:56 AM on February 26, 2006
For once, I'm thankful for weaker security on Windows ;). Thanks for your help, everyone...
posted by mkultra at 7:56 AM on February 26, 2006
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posted by cowmix at 12:49 PM on February 25, 2006