[VoiceOps] Customer Premise Firewall/Router Recommendations

[Carlos Alvarez]

As we've all said, turn off the ALG.

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Lee Riemer <LRiemer at bestline.net> wrote:
> -1 for Sonicwall.  Been fighting issues with 1-1 NATs with separate signaling server and media server setups.  The Sonicwall SIP ALG doesn't take into account the 1-1 NAT for the media server and sets the external IP in the SDP header to the signaling server.  However, a Cisco 3725 (and most other IOS based routers) worked out of the box with this type of setup.
>
> Lee Riemer
> Director of Technical Operations
> Bestline Communications, L.P.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-
>> bounces at voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Carlos Alvarez
>> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 10:28 AM
>> To: voiceops at voiceops.org
>> Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Customer Premise Firewall/Router
>> Recommendations
>>
>> We're 100% happy with recommending Sonicwall for the customers in that
>> price range.  In their VoIP settings, enable "Consisten NAT" and disable all
>> else, it will be reliable and stable.  The NSA240 for the customers wanting
>> high-end features, and the TZ210 for simple/cheap.
>>
>> Right now we are looking at Edgewater routers that have some good VoIP-
>> specific features.  Haven't decided on them, but I think you should take a
>> look.  My rep is Kevin Asano, 408-351-7220,
>> kasano at edgewaternetworks.com.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Mark Wiles <mwiles at akabis.com> wrote:
>> > We have a lot of our customers installing the Cisco RV 120W, and have
>> > had great luck with it.
>> > It does have SIP ALG turned on by default, but it's an easy "click" to
>> > disable it.
>> > The router supports QOS, they're easy to find (Office Depot, for
>> > example), and they're not bad price-wise for what you get.
>> > Mark
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org
>> > [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org]
>> > On Behalf Of Justin B Newman
>> > Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 10:44 AM
>> > To: voiceops at voiceops.org
>> > Subject: [VoiceOps] Customer Premise Firewall/Router Recommendations
>> >
>> > I am in the position of needing to recommend a line of SMB (10-50
>> > person
>> > offices) router/firewall devices that will play nice with VoIP.
>> > Specifically, office has phones (generally Cisco SPA's) connecting to
>> > remove service provider Asterisk servers. Historically, I've stayed
>> > out of the hardware on the customer side, but the growing presence of
>> > "stuff that breaks SIP" is leading me to pick a vendor. I generally am
>> > in the "don't touch my signalling" camp (read: no ALG). Is there a
>> > single vendor that is consistently good about not mucking with things too
>> much?
>> >
>> > -jbn
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