I have been playing with Vonage (the Motorola unit) at work and I have had it behind two firewalls and did not have to forward any ports. Yes, it takes away the QOS feature (voice traffic has priority), but it works anyway. Once firewall was a simple Xincom Twin WAN unit, the other was a Watchguard SOHO unit. It was a simple "plug and play", or in this case "plug and call". I did some simple bandwidth tests using one of those online testers, and the VOIP appears to use about 20-90 kb/s of bandwidth. Tim Wilson wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I'm trying out the Vonage VoIP service (http://vonage.com/). I got the > Motorola box in the mail yesterday and have played around with it a bit. I > got the phone working (sounded great) with my broadband Internet connection. > There's one problem though. > > I'm using IPCop on an old box as my firewall. I've got a Web server in a DMZ > on my network along with a separate subnet for the other machines. I > installed the device as indicated in the instructions between my cable modem > and the IPCop box. The Motorola VoIP box does DHCP/NAT which I don't need. > When I turned off the DHCP/NAT, my Internet connection was down. The VoIP > box isn't passing the traffic through to IPCop (the upstream ethernet card > in the IPCop box isn't getting an IP address from the cable modem). > > It looks like I may have to put the Motorola box inside my firewall and use > port forwarding. The instructions mention this. I'll loose the QoS features > of the box in this config, but I don't seem to have any other choice. > > If I use the DHCP on the VoIP box, I don't see how my Web server will > function using the DynDNS update feature of my IPCop installation. > > Any suggestions from other Vonage subscribers? > > -Tim > > (BTW, they have a refer-a-friend program and you can get a credit on your > plan if you're referred by a current subscriber. The referrer gets a credit > too, of course.) > -- Todd Young 7079 Dawn Ave. E. Inver Grove Heights, MN 55076 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list