As I was reading this, I knew what would happen at the end. You nailed it.

Unless you expose your phone system to the net (never!) or manage to create
site to site VPN's to you users homes, that's not going to work.

What a lot of people use in those cases are Soft Phones. Soft Phones run on
your PC while  it is VPN'd in and offers most of the features of the phone.
Ask about Soft Phones.

 

From: Marty Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 2:04 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Does Anyone Have Nortel 1120E IP Phones

 

 

Happy New Years all!

 

The company I work for picked up a couple to play with thinking that when
people work from home, they can pick up one of these phones, take it home,
plug into their home network, VPN into the office and we're all set.  When
someone rings their extension in the office rings, it gets forwarded to the
1120E that the user has taken home.

 

Well, me being the guinea pig that I am volunteered to take one of these
phones home, and it's not working.  Its addressing is setup for DHCP, so it
gets an address from my network, with the default gateway being my wireless
AP which makes sense to me as to why this phone isn't working  My wireless
AP doesn't know or care about my laptops PPTP VPN connection, so it's
sending the phones data out to the real world, or most likely dropping it
altogether,

 

Anyhow, any help would be GREATLY appreciated, as I feel like I'm stuck here
and don't know how to get out.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Marty Nelson  

 

 







 
    

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