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vtech ip 8100 - vonage account as trunk

brcisna
Posts: 64
 Member Since:
2007-12-30
Submitted by brcisna on Thu, 12/25/2008 - 10:00am.

Hello List,

I know this subject has been hashed many times before. I have an existing Vonage account ,that I have had for about 3 years now. I have re-upped it for another year , already paid. Back to trying TB CE again,with some time to tinker with it. I don't understand why there could not be some sort of configuring my VTech IP 8100 ATA to allow as a trunk to the outside world. I guess I should rephrase this and really no configuring to the actual VTech IP 8100, but to simply 'route 'incoming and outgoing calls of my TB CE box, via the MAC address of my existing IP8100>Vonage. I don't even see really anything unethical about this as it is being 'paid for'? Seems I should be able to make a static route from my TB CE box >LAN port: IP8100>WAN port:cat5>broadband router>Vonage ,and vica versa for incoming calls. Seems this should be able to be made 'transparent' to the IP 8100 ATA? I know all of the Vonage registering stuff is strictly by MAC address of whatever Vonage device you are using. I of course have read posts were you have to get an business account from Vonage to make this happen, but this is just a home setup,and a business account cost is simply out of the question. Go easy:). I know I am going to hear " Just go with a 'real' voip provider".
What am I missing here?

Thanks,
Barry

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IcelandDreams
Posts: 415
 Member Since:
2007-09-11
Then you would have read
Thu, 12/25/2008 - 10:33am

Then you would have read many times that you have two choices besides getting a 'real voip account'. Buy the softphone product from vonage and use that as a trunk, or connect the ATA 'phone' port to an FXO device to use as a trunk on trixbox. Actually pretty easy and no hacking of vonage.
(unless of course your ATA doesn't have a phone port, just ask vonage to swap for a plain ATA.)


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brcisna
Posts: 64
 Member Since:
2007-12-30
VTech IP 8100 no 'phone lines'
Thu, 12/25/2008 - 1:30pm

IcelandDreams,

The VTech IP 8100 is a cordless phone setup. Hence no 'phoneline' jack to go into an fxo port of a card. Simply an WAN & an LAN port. I'd like to stay away from all the FXO ports stuff if possible. Hence, the little diagram I showed in my post should be kind of reverse engineering as what seems should work. Guess I'll just have to bite the bullet and buy me another voip trunk. I simply thought if the actual mac address of the existing IP 8100 was 'seen' by Vonage and could get routed in and out from the TB CE box,this would work.

Thanks again,
Barry


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SkykingOH
Posts: 9540
 Member Since:
2007-12-17
There have been some folks
Thu, 12/25/2008 - 2:14pm

There have been some folks who have figured out the Vonage authentication, it's tedious and requires reverse engineering and is a violation of the ToS.

It has nothing to do with the MAC address, MAC is a layer 2 construct and is not routed, in fact Voange does not 'see' your MAC address at all. The reason they need the MAC address of the endpoint is to provision it. When the device reaches out for it's configuration file to the Vonage servers the mac address is part of the the file.

In order to register you need the credentials which requires you to decrypt the secret. Seems like a lot of work to use an over priced provider.

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Scott

aka "Skyking"


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