[asterisk-users] Grandstream VoIP phones

Bryant Zimmerman BryantZ at zktech.com
Sat Sep 22 07:47:25 CDT 2012


Vladimir

I have been working with Grandstream on the DP715 firmware. Can you give me 
screen shots of your configs or a download of it, and possibly some 
asterisk config examples of how your system is set so I can try your 
configs in our test env. We have the DP715 units working with the new 
firmware. Also are you dealing with US support or other country? I would 
like to offer your feed back to the US project engineers for the product, 
and any info such as ticket numbers and support agent names would be 
helpful. 
Your experience of thier support is not the Grandstream I know, and I would 
like to get to the bottom of the issue.

Thanks

Bryant Zimmerman (ZK Tech Inc.)
616-855-1030 Ext. 2003 

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 From: "Vladimir Mikhelson" <vlad at mikhelson.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 2:55 AM
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Grandstream VoIP phones

Quick update.

Grandstream finally released the first update to theirDP715 firmware, new 
v. 1.0.0.8.

Here are the differences:
     I can receive calls over secure SIP and RTP      No outgoing calls go 
through   

What I observed the phone replies from a different port compared to a port 
it receives SIP messages on.  As a result Asterisk becomes confused.  For 
example, "sip set debug peer 999" would only track messages to the phone. 

Grandstream's support is beyond the level of criticism.  It takes them 10 
days to reply to a posted message.  It seems their only goal is to close 
the case.  So far I am still to see a single bit of help from them. 

I will continue updating this thread. 

-Vladimir

On 8/31/2012 8:07 PM, Vladimir Mikhelson wrote:
 Carlos,

So far the experience with DP715 is extremely negative.

It all starts with the WEB interface which is only served on port 80, no 
https, period.  There is no login name, just password.

The phone worked as expected with insecure SIP and RTP.  As I started 
playing with security the phone started acting up.  It randomly took calls, 
then stopped.  It placed calls, then stopped.

Following is a sample of a corrupted SIP message Asterisk receives from 
DP715 (pay attention to Call-ID: 477744485-5061-8 at BHC.BH.BDH.HB):

[2012-08-23 23:55:09] DEBUG[14132] chan_sip.c: Header 0 [ 14]: SIP/2.0 200 
OK
[2012-08-23 23:55:09] DEBUG[14132] chan_sip.c: Header 1 [ 69]: Via: 
SIP/2.0/TLS 172.17.137.11:5061;branch=z9hG4bK2f5ce157;rport=5061
[2012-08-23 23:55:09] DEBUG[14132] chan_sip.c: Header 2 [ 57]: From: 
<sip:*97 at pbx.int.mikhelson.com:5061>;tag=as50c4dc59
[2012-08-23 23:55:09] DEBUG[14132] chan_sip.c: Header 3 [ 54]: To: 
<sip:471 at pbx.int.mikhelson.com:5061>;tag=436538044
[2012-08-23 23:55:09] DEBUG[14132] chan_sip.c: Header 4 [ 39]: Call-ID: 
477744485-5061-8 at BHC.BH.BDH.HB
[2012-08-23 23:55:09] DEBUG[14132] chan_sip.c: Header 5 [ 13]: CSeq: 102 
BYE
[2012-08-23 23:55:09] DEBUG[14132] chan_sip.c: Header 6 [ 51]: Contact: 
<sip:471 at 172.17.137.71:5061;transport=tls>
[2012-08-23 23:55:09] DEBUG[14132] chan_sip.c: Header 7 [ 43]: Supported: 
replaces, path, timer, eventlist
[2012-08-23 23:55:09] DEBUG[14132] chan_sip.c: Header 8 [ 37]: User-Agent: 
Grandstream DP715 1.0.0.5
[2012-08-23 23:55:09] DEBUG[14132] chan_sip.c: Header 9 [ 80]: Allow: 
INVITE, ACK, OPTIONS, CANCEL, BYE, SUBSCRIBE, NOTIFY, INFO, REFER, UPDATE
[2012-08-23 23:55:09] DEBUG[14132] chan_sip.c: Header 10 [ 17]: 
Content-Length: 0

According to RFC 3261, "Call-ID contains a globally unique identifier for 
this call, generated by the combination of a random string and the 
softphone's host name or IP address."

Interestingly, the problem is intermittent. Some calls go through.  
Asterisk must be able to process these calls from time to time.  Which is 
strange on its own.

On top of everything Grandstream's support organization does not seem to 
exist for all practical purposes.  I opened the case on 08/22/2012.  Today, 
08/31/2012, I finally received a response, "Sorry for missing your call 
yesterday. We checked the syslog you sent to us and seems the TLS is shut 
down. I just got some TLS internal test accounts today and will do a quick 
test. I'll let you know soon.  It took them 9 days to start looking into 
the issue.

I will update this thread with progress.

Regards,
Vladimir

On 8/17/2012 11:30 AM, Carlos Alvarez wrote:
  On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Vladimir Mikhelson <vlad at mikhelson.com> 
wrote:
 My primary interest is security.  Grandstream claims their intermediate 
and higher-end models support TLS and SRTP.  I am really tired of trying to 
make Cisco phones to communicate securely with Asterisk.  Cisco has a great 
security model but one has to have their provisioning server for it to 
function.

 We've never had customers ask for this, but if doing so is fairly easy we 
would look at it as just another feature we push.  Do let me know how it 
works out for you. 
  -- 
Carlos Alvarez TelEvolve 602-889-3003 

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