How find out IP address of PAP2 so I can put in DMZ?

Posts: 8 · New Forum Member Joined: Jan 16, 2006 Posts: 8

Which code do I put in to phone after 4 * to find out IP address of PAP2?
I know it is not 192.168.1.100 vi Linksys router.

Thank you
Peter

Posts: 1178 · Member of the Week Joined: Feb 28, 2005 Posts: 1178

Peter,

I am assuming that you are connecting your PAP2 to a router. Go to the router's web configuration page. Then look for the DHCP table. Your PAP2 should be there and so will its IP address.

Hope this helps, mundy5

Posts: 57 · Full Forum Member Joined: Dec 16, 2005 Posts: 57

You can also do it by pressing **** (star key four times) and when it asks for option number, press 110#. It will then read you off it's assigned IP address from the router.

Posts: 8 · New Forum Member Joined: Jan 16, 2006 Posts: 8

Thank you.
Peter

Posts: 20 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Feb 23, 2006 Posts: 20

I have searched and this is the closest thread I could find to what I am doing.

The good news is the PAP2 adapter worked much better than the WRTP54G POS did the other night. I plugged it in, set it's IP address in the DMZ and away we went. Called my parents and a few friends, all crystal clear.

The way I have it set up currently:

Modem (Motorola SB5100) -> Router (D-Link DI-524) -> Desktop (router port 1), Vonage PAP2 (router port 2), Laptop floating around in wirelessland.

I am running DHCP, from the router and it always gives the PAP2 the same address based on its specific MAC. I then have the PAP2 IP address set in the DMZ. I did this because it was easier than setting up the port forwarding ranges in the router. D-Link's interface is a little goofy.

Is there any reason I do not want the phone adapter in the DMZ? I can set up the port forwarding if necessary but don't feel like talking to APU er, I mean "Jake" anymore. I figure it is a phone adapter what is wrong with exposing it to the interweb as it was designed to be?

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Eric

Posts: 44 · Full Forum Member Joined: Feb 21, 2006 Posts: 44

Personally, if I were setting up a DMZ, I would use the phone configuration to configure a static IP on your subnet outside your router's DHCP range.

However, I would also go to the trouble of configuring ports rather than DMZ.

BTW, I haven't had to do either.

Posts: 2257 · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:44 pm Post subject:

Actually, I don't think there's any reason at all to forward ports to the PAP2, though I may be wrong on that. I have my WRTP54G acting as a Vonage device only, sitting on my Linksys WRT54G router, and I don't forward anything to it.

The PAP2 may be different, but try taking it out of the DMZ and see what happens.

Posts: 20 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Feb 23, 2006 Posts: 20

Initially I had it sitting behind the router, no DMZ and no forwarding, it didn't work. I thought it had to initialize or something so I left it sit, went to dinner, came back still nothing. So i tried to set up the port forwarding. I wasn't sure if I was setting correctly since I have never messed with PF on a D-Link router. Still not working. I then set a static IP on the PAP2 and set it in the DMZ. After about 5 minutes the light came on and everything worked. When I get home tonight I will try turning off the DMZ and see if it still works.

I was just kind of wondering if there is any security threat having the PAP2 hanging out in the DMZ essentially unprotected.

Posts: 44 · Full Forum Member Joined: Feb 21, 2006 Posts: 44

68rustang wrote:

I was just kind of wondering if there is any security threat having the PAP2 hanging out in the DMZ essentially unprotected.

Other than opening your PAP2 to attacks on ports other than the expected ones, probably not. I'm just anal about keeping my LAN secure.

Posts: 276 · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:01 pm Post subject:

NateHoy wrote:

Actually, I don't think there's any reason at all to forward ports to the PAP2, though I may be wrong on that. I have my WRTP54G acting as a Vonage device only, sitting on my Linksys WRT54G router, and I don't forward anything to it.

I've had port forwarding set up on my WRT54G for some time now for Vonage, per the Vonage FAQ's. After several here said it wasn't needed, I turned it off and everything continued to work fine. Recently, when I added the 2nd Vonage adapter for new business phone & fax lines, it refused to register and work at all. I went back in and turned on the forwarding for the first adapter, AND added all the ports for the second adapter too. Now my port forwarding list has identical lists of ports forwarded to both adapters. Something about that has always vaguely bothered me, but it all works this way, and wouldn't with port forwarding off. <shrug>