IP-phone setup problem

[toukie]

I got a new IP-address, now I can't get a bridged IP-phone box to connect to internet, I have forgotten how the configuration was or maybe the box is broken or whatever. The box works as a bridge but doesn't connect the phone to internet.

I use static IP address settings.

Which IP-address should be used in the box? I put in there my external IP-address. As gateway I put the IP-number of the box.

[Cheeseboy]

Hi toukie,

I recently ordered an IP-phone service from my ISP, but didn't order the SIP box.
My next project is to set up Asterisk on B3

Anyway, when I did that, the ISP changed the physical port on my fibre-box (it has 8...) without telling me.
Nothing worked until I moved the Ethernet cable to one of the ports marked "Phone/TV".

They also sent me some instructions:
SIP username
SIP password
SIP server.

Also, if the (non-existing) SIP box was to be behind a router/firewall etc. I had to forward some UDP ports to it.
Could you not contact your supplier to get them to help you?

[toukie]

Hi Cheeseboy,

I'm a boy too. I realized too late that the nic I took was a girls name.

I had Jitsi with Ejabberd earlier. https://jitsi.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejabberd

The problem was that people have trouble in installing and configuring a chat-client for to use such a service. Instructions for the install can be found from here: http://forum.excito.net/viewtopic.php?f ... berd#p4236

My Static IP Configuration for the IP-phone (as bridge) has my external IP-address written in. Gateway is the IP-address of the box 192.168.1.1. Netmask and DNS addresses are the same as elsewhere on my system. It works as a bridge to my computer but doesn't connect to internet for the two phonelines . I had no port-configurations before, the thing worked just fine. After I got a new IP it doesn't.

How do I check if it is the box that is broken?

My supplier Bixia.se doesn't answer mails. The only answer I got was to call. I had explained that I can't call because my phone doesn't work. They could not understand that.

[Cheeseboy]

I'm a boy too. I realized too late that the nic I took was a girls name.

Well, perhaps that is something you could use to your advantage?
How do you know I'm really a boy?

My Static IP Configuration for the IP-phone (as bridge) has my external IP-address written in. Gateway is the IP-address of the box 192.168.1.1. Netmask and DNS addresses are the same as elsewhere on my system. It works as a bridge to my computer but doesn't connect to internet for the two phonelines . I had no port-configurations before, the thing worked just fine. After I got a new IP it doesn't.

It sounds like something your service provider must help you with.
If you haven't touched it and it is broken, something must have changed on their end, right?

How do I check if it is the box that is broken?

I've no idea. I didn't buy the box, hoping I could use my trusty B3 for the purpose

My supplier Bixia.se doesn't answer mails. The only answer I got was to call. I had explained that I can't call because my phone doesn't work. They could not understand that.

LOL! That is just so stupid it has to be real

I'm afraid my only advice to you is to get another service provider.
Sorry, I couldn't help...

[toukie]

I can't ping the box which is between B3 and my computer. At the same time the traffic flows by the box without a problem. The box doesn't connect to internet so the IP-phone doesn't work. The box has my external IP and the LAN-IP as Gateway. DHCP server is not enabled on LAN in my set-up. As DNS the box has 127.0.0.1 plus one more. How do I make the box to connect to internet? How do I write in the box into the system if that is what has to be done?

[toukie]

I can ping the box now when I put its IP-number into /etc/network/interfaces and did ifup -a

I may have it wrong still because the IP-phone box doesn't find its server from internet.

I wrote it in as eth0:1. Should it be under eth1 instead, or something else?

I did network-test. eth0 has my external IP and the phone-box IP which maybe shouldn't be there? eth1 has just one IP, which is the LAN-IP.

What would be the right configuration?

[Cheeseboy]

It still sounds weird to me, but I haven't got one of those boxes...
Perhaps try the br0 interface instead of eth0?

Do you remember the old IP-number?
Try:

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 sudo grep --color=auto -r -n 'xx.xx.xx.xx' /etc/*

Replace the xx... with the old IP number... Then you should see if is still lurking around in a file somewhere...

[toukie]

...probably wasn't that. I get this with the command: grep: /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-defoma.conf: No such file or directory

Anyway, this is just experimenting and a learning experience. I can't tell the difference between gateway and netmask, but I'm hopefully learning something. I'll get it right. Easiest would be to revert to what I had before installing bind9 and resolvconf. DHCP would take care of it. This is more fun.

[Cheeseboy]

Hi toukie,

This message is because there is a broken symlink called 30-defoma.conf.

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grep: /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-defoma.conf: No such file or directory

It is normal. The interesting thing would have been if you got any actual hits on your old IP address in addition to the error above...

Anyway, that's all I have to offer for now...

Cheers,

Stinkyfeet

[toukie]

No phone still, but I think that it is the company that is a problem. Anyway just now I got my LAN messed up. The GUI interface has hung up, can't change LAN configuration there. Network test shows that everything is OK except that eth1 has no IP address assigned. That's why there is no LAN I guess. Wlan0 has the same problem. How can I fix it by command line? I threw away resolvconf and bind9. Resolvconf maybe did the thing with LAN. My LAN configuration was changed when I had a look, maybe by resolvconf? Now I need to get LAN working so that i can have my server/router/firewall configuration back.