[asterisk-users] Asterisk, PAP2T and 2Wire DSL router

[Eric Chamberlain]

Carlos,

Do you have the NAT keepalive options enabled on the PAP2T?  It sounds
like the router is timing out the connection and dropping the port
mapping.

--
Eric Chamberlain, CISSP
Chief Technical Officer
Voxilla - http://voxilla.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Carlos Chavez
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 9:09 AM
> To: Asterisk
> Subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk, PAP2T and 2Wire DSL router
> 
> 	Here is Mexico the phone company uses a DSL router from 2Wire
which
> in
> my opinion is quite bad.  I am having problems getting PAP2T adapters
> connected to Asterisk using these routers.  They connect fine but
after
> about 5 minutes I get a message on the Asterisk console that the ATA
is
> unreachable.  So far the only way I have found for the ATA to stay
> connected more than five minutes is to put it in the DMZ but this is
not
> always possible either because the DMZ is already in use by some other
> computer, they do not use DHCP and this router cannot assign a DMZ if
> you do not use DHCP or simply because you have more than one ATA on
the
> network.
> 
> 	Does anyone know of a tweak to this router that will allow the
ATA
> to
> remain connected to Asterisk?  This only seems to affect Linksys and
> Sipura ATAs because when you have phones on the same network
> (Grandstream) those do not lose the connection to the server.
> 
> --
> Telecomunicaciones Abiertas de México S.A. de C.V.
> Carlos Chávez Prats
> Director de Tecnología
> +52-55-91169161 ext 2001