port forwarding quick question

Posts: 11 · Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 10:25 am Post subject: port forwarding quick question

I am installing a new router from microsoft.
It does not allow me to put in a range of ports greater than 100 Evil or Very Mad

Anyhow....the Vonage book tells me to forward the following ranges:
53
69
5060-5061
10000-20000

My issues is with the last one....Do these HAVE to be forwarded? Forwarding 10,000 ports in batches of 100 is not what I'm looking forward to doing. Damn my linksys for breaking.

Thanks

Posts: 497 · Vonage Forum Evangelist Joined: Apr 29, 2005 Posts: 497

kreedy wrote:

My issues is with the last one....Do these HAVE to be forwarded?

Well, does it work without them forwarded?

Posts: 174 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Jun 12, 2006 Posts: 174

arcking wrote:

Well, does it work without them forwarded?

Funny, that was going to be my question as well Very Happy

kreedy - are you forwarding the ports because it won't work otherwise, or just because the book suggests you might need to? I came to Vonage With some concerns about the need to do port forwarding because part of my setup might have prevented me from doing that (turns out I can), but I discovered that my Vonage works just fine (at 5 different locations so far, with 5 different ISPs) with no port forwarding.

And, if the answer is, in fact, that it doesn't work for you without port forwarding then I believe the answer is yes, they all have to be forwarded because Vonage selects one of those ports AT RANDOM and it will change at random, so it could need any of those 10,000 ports at any time.

Posts: 11 · Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 11:39 am Post subject:

I did 2 ranges of 100 starting at 10,000
It does work...now. I was aorried that at times it may not.
Vonage site says that a random port between 10,000 and 20,000 is selected and if any are blocked then you may experience one way or no audio.

The fact it works now leads me to believe I may not have to forward them. Question

Thanks

Posts: 533 · Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 5:50 pm Post subject:

No, you do not have to enable any port forwarding for Vonage to work. It's all outbound traffic from your Vonage device.