VTA-CV through vpn

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Jan 05, 2008 Posts: 2

I am trying to run my vonage through a vpn connection. How do I do that I have the VTA-CV phone adapter and gotrusted vpn subscription

Posts: 3 · New Forum Member Joined: Nov 07, 2007 Posts: 3

Well, I posted about this half a year or so ago.

I moved to a country where the sole ISP blocks voip traffic, so had to get a VPN account from a provider and route the calls through them. this is how I did it.

I signed up with the VPN provider, who sent me a link to download their encryption software. It's important to stress here that I needed to use a SSL-VPN because I needed to disguise my packets because the ISP would recognise it to be voip and block it, so I had to encrypt - and if this is your situation too, you will need a SSL-VPN, not just a regular VPN.

OK, so you've got your vpn, your adapter and an active internet connection, here comes the tricky part. You need a pc with two network cards, it can be either 1 wireless and 1 wired, or 2 wired, whatever works for you. I have one wireless (for my home network, and thus internet access) and 1 wired.

Connect your adapter via ethernet cable (a cross-over cable is required for this, its NOT a regular network cable, buy one from a store and ask for help when getting it). Name your adapter-connected network connection "Internal Network" and your internet access connection (Wireless in my case) "External Network". Next up, install your VPN software, and label that connection "Vonage". Then tell your computer to share the "Vonage" connection via Internet Connection Sharing, or ICS. Start up your TUN/TAP adapter (which is your ssl-vpn software) and let it connect, then your "Internal Network" should connect to the net via the VPN connection, which in turn uses the "External Network" connection to hitup the internet.

This information took me liturally weeks to figure out, and is one of 2 main solultions to this problem that I found. The other, more expensive solution was to get a hacked WRT54 router and use the router to make the VPN connection. However, I must stress, that a regular VPN connection, opposed to a SSL-VPN connection, may not work for you. All ISP's in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE and Oman block Voip traffic, and to get around it, you need SSL-VPN, regular VPN wont solve your problem.

Hope this helps you.

Posts: 5 · New Forum Member Joined: Nov 13, 2008 Posts: 5

Do you recommend any SSL-VPN provider?
Thanks

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Feb 11, 2009 Posts: 1

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Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: May 10, 2009 Posts: 1

I've just returned from vacation and plugged my trusty 8100 in ...only to recieve a red light, I suspect Qtel are up to their old tricks so will be asking for Vpn advise to get this sorted. I know little about Vpn so any abc help would be great.

Thanks in advance.

Posts: 3 · New Forum Member Joined: Oct 01, 2009 Posts: 3

I'm stuck with greedy etisalat in UAE who blocked my Vonage.
Can Sythe or any expert explain furthermore where exactly "the blue : internet or the yellow : LAN" to connect to PC with a crossover cable?
Is there any software configuration necessary for the v-portal to work, like for example how to configure the gateway for it?

Thanks in advance