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V.25 VoIP Configuration

I could not get VoIP to work with V.22; here's a progress report on V.25.

VoIP configuration is done from the "Voxeo Management Console." This is apparently another name for the "VoiceCenter Home." A bit of naming inconsistency there! You reach it via the Statup menu's Voxeo folder under "Voxeo 6 Home." (Yet another name for this same page.) The address of the page is actually on your machine's web server, port 8888, page mc.php.

  1. Entering my VoIP (Free World Dialup): no problems.
  2. Entering my VoIP password: for some reason, this is shown in plaintext on my screen! A bit of security issue.
  3. NAT mapping. This is the most annoying entry, but I'm assured that it will be fixed in a later release. I have to enter my machine's NAT address and the outside address for my firewall. That's more than a little annoying, especially since (a) I like my inside machines to have dynamic IP addresses and (b) my firewall's IP address can change without warning.
  4. I left most all other entries blank. The form was smart enough to fill in the entry for "Outbound Call VoIP Gateway" with "fwd.pulver.com." Of course I don't currently subscribe to a PSTN Gateway for my FWD service; I suspect they meant something else by this entry.

I saved the information and was informed I had to restart the services. There's no information on how to restart the service, and I'm a bit surprised that restarting the service isn't offered as an option.

Ah, well, I got to the command prompt and type "voxeo restart." Java App Server gives an error message; I'm in state "3" with exit code "0" at "check point" "1." The rest of the services stop and restart without problems... no, wait. The Java App server did restart, so I guess it stopped after all.

After starting the Voxeo "phone" application, I make a call to "sip:ccxml@127.0.0.1" to see if I can connect locally. That works, and the TTS sounds pretty good.

Now for the acid test. FWD runs an "echo" service at 613@fwd.pulver.com. A call to that number fails. A callback initiated from FWD back to me also fails.

I've configured my external firewall correctly (more on that in a different post), so I expect the problem is in how I've configured Voxeo's application. I expect to have more data shortly.