I have one of the Cisco ATA's also, VOnage does not use them anymore
though.

Probably shaping/rate limiting traffic other than vonage so your
internet pipe doesn't get saturated will have a more positive effect
than anything else.

Opening ports is a bit difficult, as the Vonage service initiates calls
on a few ports, but actual calls bounce around ports a lot.


"Each router manufacturer has a different process for Port Forwarding
(also called Port Opening), but in each case, you must always specify
two port ranges to be opened: 
      * 5060 ? 5061 (UDP) 
      * 10000 ? 20000 (UDP)" 

http://www.vonage.com/help_knowledgeBase_article.php?article=89



On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 22:26 -0500, Christopher M. Iarocci wrote:
> Jesus De la Garza wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I just got my vonage kit and wodnering what do i need to do to start
> >working using my firewall. I've just a month with m0n0 installed and
> >it works great with my network, however as i just receive my voip kit
> >from vonage i can't make it work with m0n0.
> >
> >I already did a test and i connect my vonage phone diectly to the
> >internet with no m0n0 and it works normally but once I connect it
> >trought m0n0 it doesnt work.
> >
> >Do i need to open a port or do i need to configure something else on
> >m0n0 to use it with my vonage phone?
> >
> >Thanks for your time and patience to give me a hand with this.
> >  
> >
> Jesus,
> 
> I've simply plugged my Cisco ATA supplied by Vonage into the switch 
> which is plugged into my m0n0wall, and all is well.  Did not need to 
> open any ports, although I did at one point on Vonage's advice to make 
> my connection better.  However, it had no effect on it at all, and 
> Vonage eventually fixed the problems on their end to clear up the issues 
> I was having.  So currently, I simply plug in the Cisco ATA behind 
> m0n0wall, with absolutely no special configuration.  In fact, I have a 
> PBX that also uses SIP protocol (same protocol used by Vonage) connected 
> to another VoIP provider (Broadvoice) that is also behind m0n0 with 
> absolutely no special configuration for that either, and both work side 
> by side with no problems.  Please note that I am using the Cisco ATA, 
> which does not seem to be the one they currently ship out.  However, my 
> PBX is simply a Linux box running Asterisk PBX and I have no problem 
> their either.  If that works, I would think any ATA would too because 
> they all use SIP protocol to connect.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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