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

[John Todd]

An interesting question would be how to handle authentication in this 
scenario.  I tried something similar to this with the "Mac2Phone" 
software because of similar problems installed by the short-sighted 
developers, but it didn't work due to what I think were auth problems.

JT


At 3:26 PM -0500 8/6/03, Martin Pycko wrote:
>
>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