[Asterisk-Users] Vonage ATA 186 Factory Default & use with Asterisk ?

[Martin Pycko]

One could imagine that you could just use the ATA Vonage box creating some
fake routes to your system ... so that if the box tries to contact
gateway.com you could point that to asterisk and make it work using the
current vonage setup. I would also recommend adding a rule to firewall
that your ATA box cannot contact outside world .... only the asterisk
server.

regards
Martin

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Steve Haehnichen wrote:

> -=> On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 14:39:53 -0500, John Schmerold <john at katy.com> said:
>
> > I've canceled my Vonage service because of the requirement to prefix
> > every call with a 1.
>
> (I was more bothered by the lack of CallerID Name, but the 11-digit
> dialing was indeed annoying for local calls.)
>
> The Vonage ATA-186 units shipped from Vonage before July arrived
> 'unlocked' either with no password, or a firmware version old enough
> to always allow #FACTRESET.  As far as I know, the ones from
> Amazon.com arrived locked because no contract was yet in place.
>
> Sometime around mid-July, Vonage pushed out v3.16 and password-locked
> *all* the ATAs.
>
> If your box has been off-line since June, you should still be able to
> reset it with the process you described.  If it has recently been
> connected, then it is not going to work.
>
> You can find out by attempting the reset.  If it says "PASSWD", then
> it won't let you change any config, reset the box, or upload new
> firmware without the password.  If instead it asks you to confirm with
> "*", then you're golden -- you can reset it and then connect to
> http://<ip>/dev to reconfigure.
>
> Vonage used to always charge the cancellation and leave you with the
> box.  The option to return the box is new, and should address some of
> the 'green' concerns.
>
> If anyone has a method for 'unlocking' password-locked unsubscribed
> Vonage ATA's, there are a lot of interested folks out there, myself
> included.
>
> -Steve
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