[VoiceOps] Customer Premise Firewall/Router Recommendations

[Lee Riemer]

-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.
Voice 512.328.9095
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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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