BT Voyager 10V with Belkin wireless router/firewall

[mike.hat]

Have recently signed up to BT Broadband Talk and received my shiney new 10V. Config seemed easy and I was immediately able to make calls but receiving them is a different matter. Speaking to BT they (obviously now) pointed out that my Belkin was probably blocking the relevant ports on the inbound call. I've got a list of these ports but am having problems configuring the Belkin to get it to work. Anyone out there using a similar setup and got it working ?

[acoolwelshbloke]

What model router do you have and what are the list of ports you have?

[acoolwelshbloke]

Originally Posted by mike.hat

it's a Belkin f5d7630 (firewall, wireless router & 4 port router).
ports given to me by BT were 32000-36000, 5060, 2727 & 49152-49193.
whenever i try and put these somewhere in the Belkin config (yet to obviously find where they'll work) incoming still doesn't work. Belkin logs do mention a UDP storm on one of thr 491** ports

I found this: http://www.adslguide.org.uk/hardware...f5d7630-4a.asp

[mike.hat]

Belkin f5d7630 firewall/wireless router/4port router. Voyager is obviously plugged into one of the 4 ports (have given it a static IP as saw some forums talking about issues with DHCP). BT gave me 32000-36000, 5060, 2727 & 49152-49193 as the incoming ports. Have tried to stick these in various places & either the Voyager fails to connect to BT Broadbandtalk (happened when i tried to put the ip address into a DMZ), or I lose connectivity from other devices & Voyager still doesn't work on inbound. Belkin logs do occassionally talk about a UDP storm on port 491** so maybe firewall is still blocking ?

[acoolwelshbloke]

I refer to this part:

Advanced Firewalling and Configuration

The router includes more than basic port forwarding, it also has support for Application Gateways (ALG). An ALG is a clever way of controlling port forwarding, since it allows a set of port forwarding rules to be pre-defined, but only to become active when traffic on a specific outgoing port is seen. An example can be seen below, this uses one of the pre-defined rules, which shows that as soon as an application talks to the Internet using UDP port 28800 that the ports 6667, 2300 to 2400, 47624 and 28800 to 29000 will then be opened up in the incoming direction to the computer that originated the request.

[acoolwelshbloke]

On another note and this is of no use to you but may be of interest to others, I would recommend the Linksys range of routers over netgear and belkin. Even more so when it comes to VOIP as they seem to work straight out of the box when it comes to VOIP not to mention they support QOS as standard!

QOS basically gives priority to a device on your network, by setting up your ATA in the QOS your phone calls get priority over all other bandwidth!

So you won't get poor call quality or break up's when playing games or downloading etc!

[marks_voip]

had problems with voip and my belkin, calls cut off, this was due to the UDP flood thing. Got round it to a point by diasbling SPi in the follwoing 'hidden' page:

http://192.168.2.1/firewall_spi_h.stm

not ideal for me though as its disabling some of the protection, and replaced by a safecom router with QoS, that the second time I've mentioned safecom on the forum - no I don't work for them ;)

nothing else seemed to work with the belkin, a call to thier tech support led nowhere. searching the web and its seems its an issue even with the current belkin models.