Cisco Systems IP SoftPhone strange behaviour

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IP SoftPhone strange behaviour Wisley 04-14-06
Posted by Wisley on April 14, 2006, 10:55 am
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Hi All,
I install an ip softphone 1.3 in my laptop, however I found somthing
very strange.

1. It works fine when I am using the office network which is in the
same network with the CCM 3.1.
2. After connected to the office VPN at home. It works fine when I call
any office externsion. however it drop all the call when I dail
external number.
3. Not everyone got this problem, some of them are able to call any
external number without any problem when they connected to the office
VPN.

To me it seems like something relate to the private network.

Anyone seen this problem before? any idea?


Posted by J on April 14, 2006, 1:53 pm
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Are all of your users (and yourself) using the same VPN profile? If
not do all the profiles hand out the same routes? Once the CCM is done
processing your call and providing you tone it directs you to one of
the gateways on your network (something connected to the PSTN). This
could be a VG, a 2800 or 3800, or a number of other devices with a PRI
or POTS connection. All the RTP traffic is between you and the gateway
(or you and another user on the network if they're in the office). The
CCM only sets up the call. Can you access the gateway from your laptop
when you VPN in? If not then that's your problem.

What does your client VPN terminate on? I'm not sure if you can
terminate a client VPN on the gateway device. If the gateway is beyond
your VPN termination point then perhaps you're in the situation where
unencrypted traffic can't be routed back out the interface that the
encrypted traffic just came in on. For example:

You <--> Internet <---> Border RTR/VoIP Gateway <----> Pix <--->
CCM

In this scenario lets assume that the Pix is running a pre-7.x code.
You can't access the VoIP gateway in this scenario because of the
problem routing unencrypted traffic back out the interface that the
encrypted traffic just came in on. 7.x introduced a way around this
problem however. There are a couple of ideas to try.

As always call TAC. They are most helpful.

J


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