Hoping maybe someone has some ideas about why I cannot get a Polycom 450
remote phone to register.

 

I have a test remote network setup, and have verified that if I send any
traffic from it to my sipx proxy I can see the traffic at my local
firewall. I am allowing all traffic from the remote network and can see
UDP, TCP and ICMP traffic that I manually generate.

 

If I take a working (locally connected)  Polycom 450 and move it to the
remote network, it will not register. If I check the firewall traffic,
it appears the FTP traffic from the phone contacting the configuration
server is all that gets generated. No other SIP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, etc,
traffic is logged. If I manually clear the configuration server IP in
the phone and reboot it, then no traffic is generated to my sipx proxy
from the phone at all.

 

This holds true no matter what settings I make to the phone, and I have
tried all  of the following settings manually at the phone which I
understand overrides any config files applied.

Setting the phones IP to a static and dynamic configurations.

Setting the Outbound Proxy to static IP, Proxy name, static port, and
tried all transport settings.

Setting the Call server Settings to static IP, Proxy name, static port,
and tried all transport settings.

Setting line settings to static IP, Proxy name, static port, and tried
all transport settings.

Setting the local DNS name to the local and external domains.

Wiping the configs and updating the firmware/software to 3.2.3, back
reving to 3.1.3

Holding tongue to left and right side of mouth while making changes.

 

It seems to me the phone is not functioning correctly, since it is not
even attempting to contact my proxy, but if I set it to DHCP and boot it
to the local net, it works fine. If I fire up a soft-phone on the remote
net and point it to my proxy it registers and works fine too, so the
routing and firewall settings are good. I am at a loss.

 

Anyway, based on the last statement,  my conclusion is regardless of
what changes I manually make to the phone, that the configs must be
taking precedence, and my changes are not having affect, but this is
counter to my interpretation of the Polycom docs.

 

Further proof to this is that this is only the case after the phone has
been configured via sipxecs. I have tried making all the changes above
thru the sipxecs web manager as well as local to the phone, with no
success. However, if I wipe the phone and load vers 3.x.x and manually
configure the phone, it registers.

 

I have all my internal and external SRV records configured, and have
followed every document I can find including DNS Concepts for sipXecs

By: Michael W. Picher, and the Configuring remote workers cheat sheet.
DNS aside, if manual phone configs take precedence I can't figure out
why the 450 is not making any attempt to contact my sipx proxy when
given  the IP, Port, and Protocol.

 

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

Thanks.

 

John Clark
Small Business Systems
Fort Worth: 817-834-0364 x102
Dallas: 972-248-4455 x102
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
www.sbsproactive.com <http://www.sbsproactive.com> 

 

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