Sorry for this being slightly off topic. I wouldn't normally post this
here, but I'm literally desperetly at my last wits end!
I may also post this on another tech list that I'm on. I normally don't
like cross posting, but as I said... I'm at my wits end!
So, as I said in my last post, let me kind a briefly catch you all up to
speed, just in case you didn't read my other post, as hey, it happens.
I'm trying to use NCH Swift's application called Express Talk Professional.
Actually, I'm not sure if I have Pro, or if I have business Edition. It's
whichever of the two is the most enhanced. I basically bought the most top
of the line version they offer. Anyway, I did this about a year ago, and
ever since have been struggling. I have a sip server, which I cannot give
out the details to, as it's a private based PBX system ran on Asterisk.
Actually, more specifically, it's my company's PBX system, which yes, I have
100% access to the administrator interface via Free PBX 2.10. Anyway, so,
here's the point. I have a Linksys WRT54S Wireless Router. I can? not! for
the life a me! figure this out, but it just ab, suh, lootly, refuses! to
connect and register on any sip provider that I try. Be it our own, be it
Free World Dialup, be it Broadvoice, Ekiga, whatever. You name it. If it's
sip, it will, not, do it. If I go hard wired to any of my 3 computers,
being Mac, Windows PC, or! Linux for that mind, straight to the modem via
ethernet, it works flawlessly. On my IPhone/IPads, I use either Bria, or
Media 5 Sip Phone. I have both installed, obviously not both running at the
same time, but I have them both, so just which ever I'm in the mood to use.
I also have Telephone installed on both my mac mini, as well as on my
macbook. In both cases, Telephone works flawlessly even behind the routewr.
I don't have to do one single networking thing within either the app or
within my router. Nor port forwarding/triggering, no dmz, no weird cocka
mainy dhcp settings, no IP cloning, no weird netmascing, none a that! It
just works, point blank! the only thing I did! have to do, and this only
was done in the Asterisk configuration of my company's pbx, and didn't have
anything to do with my router's configuration. Anyway, I had to disable
nat, under settings/sip settings, within the free pbx 2.10 web interface,
then on each individual extension, I had to set nat to yes. Otherwise I got
no inbound nor outbound audio. I've tried forwarding port 5060 which is the
standard port for sip to the local IP address of my mac running Express
Talk. this isn't even an issue of maybe it's not fully mac compatible.
I've tried running this on Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, (Don't ask.) Lion,
and! Mountain Lion, all! with the same bad luck, and no success. Basically,
it just won't even connect to the server. The pbx in a flash cli doesn't
even show that things are even registerring, let alone! connecting. I
should also add that before you say maybe your pbx isn't properly
configured, remember: for one thing, it's not just! our pbx having this
issue. Any! sip provider I try is exhibiting this behavior. I've shut off
the firewall in my router entirely, which is not advisable, but I did it
anyway, just long enough to see if it made any difference. It didn't. I've
looked at the router logs with no help, again, this is a Linksys WRT54S with
the native firmware. I've not cooked it with a custom rom, nor have any
entention of doing so unless it be an extreme very, and I do mean very! last
resort, and even then! I'll only do it very reluctantly. Somehow though, I
don't think that would help, seeing I've tried this on all different sorts
of routers. Linksys/cisco, Belcon, DLink, Airport Extreme and Express,
Netgears, Truewires, Motorolas, you name it! I've opened all the way from
ports 10 to ports 65 thousand both tcp and u d p, and have even tried
setting up a port forward to the local IP running Express Talk. It did
absolutely no good. I've looked to make sure I had a valid IP and a valid
netmasc which I do. I've got the standard 255.255.255.0, when I ping the IP
of my sip server I get 4 packets sent, 4 received no packet loss, and the
round trip is perfect! Hardly any ladency at all. Furthermore, I'm not
seeing any unusual hops when I do a trace root, which would be bogging down
the network. I also should add that our pbx doesn't have a firewall that I
know of. It may have IP ban, but I think that is it. Either way, I've not
been blocked out, and even if I had been, it would only last for 5 minutes
at a time with the way the default config is for IP bans. Also, this server
is in a remote data center so it's nothing being caused by my network. At
least, nothing I! can determine, put it that way. Telephone works on my
mac, even behind the router, and pretty much every single sip client I've
tried on IOS works as well. Any sip client though on the computer side, Mac
Windows, or! Linux, be it Express Talk, be it Linphone, be it GPhone,
X-Lite, which I'd never! recommend for accessibility sake, no matter what,
be it my own pbx, be it Free World Dialup, be it Broadvoice, Ekiga, simonics
Google Voice Gateway, whatever, you name it, it won't register. Yet, any
app on my I O S devices, it works fine! Or, if I go directly from my
computers to the modem with a single ethernet cord, regardless it's cat
grade, it works perfectly! I don't know what the heck is left to try! I
wanna use sip on my mac, but Telephone is lacking a feature I need, and that
is the ability to do intercom paging. That is one thing Express Talk does!
indeed offer.
I don't know what's left to try.
I've done everything I can think of.
Any thoughts? Hey! if you think you can get this working, give me off list
a number to call you at, and I'll give you a call and we can try going
through things together. Be my guest! I've pretty much given up though,
and nch's support is being very little, to no help at all.
Yes, I did run in express talk, the auto network config wizard but that's
when it tells me I'm behind a router, and thus need to configure it manually
at the router side. I've even tried using spawn servers with no go, so
yeah... and no, it's not that I'm trying to connect with an invalid codec
either. I'm just using the standard G711.
Chris.
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