[TriLUG] vonage behind nat

[Rock Roskam]

The only time I have had to move my vonage device in front was to apply a firmware update. Other than that it has worked well behind my nat device.  I need to get QOS working better on my linksys router.  The calls drop if I am uploading items like torrents or playing video games.  

Rock 
-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of David Rasch
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 4:35 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] vonage behind nat

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 04:31:28PM -0500, Matt Pusateri <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com> wrote:
> On Thu, March 3, 2005 3:55 pm, Wing D Lizard said:
> > Does Vonage work behind a NAT?  I'm wondering if I can plug the 
> > device into my home network.  Does it require any special settings ( 
> > some web pages say 'it just works' and other say you need to forward 
> > some ports)?
> >
> > Has anybody tried taking the adaptor to a hotel that has broadband?
> >
> > thanks
> > b\375
> >
> 
> I have heard the if you put vonage in front of everything so that it 
> has the public address and then everything else is behind the vonage 
> box, that it can then handle QOS better.  But it is supposed to work 
> behind nat as well. Obviously if you are nated behind a firewall that 
> is blocking the required ports then you will be out of luck if you 
> can't poke the proper holes through.

Vonage works just fine behind a firewall.  I setup QoS on my firewall to ensure high-quality calls, but it worked pretty well even before I did that.  The only time it suffered was when someone was downloading something at full speed or uploading something (uploading would pretty much kill the call).

-David