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rev. 2.0 07/2006
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  • Page 1 User’s Guide rev. 2.0 07/2006 http://www.digicom.it...
  • Page 3 1.3. DESCRIPTION OF DATA AND POWER CONNECTORS 1.4. PHONE INTERFACES INSTALLATION 2.1. POWER SUPPLY 2.2. ADSL CONNECTION 2.3. LAN CONNECTION 2.4. COMPUTER CONFIGURATION 2.5. VOICEGATE H.323 CONFIGURATION CONFIGURATION MENU VOICEGATE ADSL 3.1. CONFIGURATION MENU 3.1.1. STATUS 3.1.2. CONFIGURATION 3.1.2.1 WAN CONFIGURATION 3.1.2.2.
  • Page 4 All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or trasmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, otherwise, without the prior written permission of Digicom S.p.A. The content of this booklet may be modified without notice.
  • Page 5 1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION Dear Customer, Thanks for purchasing a Digicom's product. VoiceGATE H.323 integrates in a sole device all the functionalities and the characteristics necessary to carry out an ADSL Internet connection, giving the possibility of VoIP calls and protecting your LAN from external attaks through a built-in firewall.
  • Page 6 FIREWALL DoS attacks protection and IP Spoofing, Land Attack, Ping of Death, TCP Syn Flooding, etc. Packet Filtering (Port, Source IP, Destination IP, MAC address) 1.2. PORTS AND LEDS DESCRIPTION VoiceGATE H.323 powered Line Telephone line configurated and registered Blinking...
  • Page 7 VoiceGATE H.323 General Description 1.3. DESCRIPTION OF DATA AND POWER CONNECTORS USB port USB port (Serial port option) (Serial port option) Power supply Power supply ADSL WAN LAN1 LAN4 LAN1 LAN3 LAN3 LAN2 LAN2 ADSL: RJ11 connector for ADSL line...
  • Page 9 *Entering as user you can only display the VoiceGATE H.323 configuration but not modify it. To enter the configuration menu you mut set on the computer an IP address of the same LAN of VoiceGATE H.323; you can set the address statically or using the assignment through the DHCP Server.
  • Page 10 Configuration Main Guidelines: 1. The PC used for the VoiceGATE H.323 configuration must not have a proxy software or firewall. If using proxy applications, firewall or similar, it is necessary to disable them temporarily to go on with the VoiceGATE H.323 configuration.
  • Page 11 VoiceGATE H.323 Installation You will be asked to authenticate to enter the VoiceGATE H.323 configuration: Insert user name “admin” and password “voicegate”. For security reason we advise to modify the password once the configuration is over.
  • Page 13 The configuration page divides into 3 main menu: Status, Configuration and Admin Privilege. 3.1.1. STATUS It is possible to verify some information on the VoiceGATE H.323 through the menu: Home, PPP and ADSL. In the Admin Privilege menu you can display the WAN, ATM and TCP status.
  • Page 14 All the computers operating with public IP addresses must be configurated as follows: IP: one of the assigned public IP Subnet Mask: the Subnet associated to your public addresses Gateway: the public address assigned to the VoiceGATE H.323 (on the LAN) DNS: the DNS addresses supplied by the Provider...
  • Page 15 The computer must have addresses of the same subnet and their gateway will be the LAN IP address set in this menu. In this menu you can also set the parameters for the DHCP Server service. If enabled the VoiceGATE H.323 will assign the configured IP addresses to the computers requesting them.
  • Page 16 VoiceGATE H.323 Configuration Menu VoiceGATE ADSL 3.1.2.3. VoIP Please refer to chapter 5. 3.1.2.4. NAT The NAT Configuration page allows the user to set the configuration for the Network Address Translation. Dynamic NAPT: It's the default setting. It provides dynamic Network Address Translation capability between LAN and multiple WAN connections, and the LAN traffic is routed to appropriate WAN connections based on IP address destination and the routing tables.
  • Page 17 The Virtual Server Configuration page allows the external users to access to the internal services (Web server, FTP server, E-mail server or News server). When the VoiceGATE H.323 receives a request (on the WAN interface) for a service whose port has been inserted in the virtual server configuration, the request will be automatically forwarded to the specified LAN IP address where the service is active.
  • Page 18 It is necessary that each computer in LAN knows the DNS IP addresses. If you don't use the VoiceGATE H.323 DHCP server, you must insert manually the DNS addresses in the Ethernet card properties of each PC. You have two options: 1.
  • Page 19 VoiceGATE H.323 Configuration Menu VoiceGATE ADSL 3.1.2.8. Dynamic DNS With the Dynamic DNS service a domain name can be moved into a dynamic IP address. This allows to access some services in LAN (web server, e-mail server or ftp server) without knowing the IP address.
  • Page 20 VoiceGATE H.323 Configuration Menu VoiceGATE ADSL 3.1.4. FIREWALL This allows the user to configure various firewall options. Pay attention this requires a attenzione che questo comporta una 5% loss of performances. 3.1.4.1 Advanced Option Protection Policy This page allows the user to define from which DOS attacks you want to protect your LAN.
  • Page 21 VoiceGATE H.323 Configuration Menu VoiceGATE ADSL Service Filtering It allows to block from outside the access to some services. 3.1.4.2. Firewall Databases (IP Group Service Group Time Window) It allows the creation of groups based on IP, Service or time bands and then associate to them the firewall rules.
  • Page 22 VoiceGATE H.323 Configuration Menu VoiceGATE ADSL 3.1.4.3. Inbound/Outbound Policies (Inbound Policy Outbound Policy) This page allows the user to define some rules according to the IP address and to the port number. The device will check the rules one by one, starting from the first, and if one of these is satisfied the defined action is enabled (Filtering Action).
  • Page 23 VoiceGATE H.323 Configuration Menu VoiceGATE Ethernet 4. CONFIGURATION MENU VOICEGATE ETHERNET The WAN Ethernet version has a smaller number of parameters to configure as you can see in the main menu. 4.1. CONFIGURATION Here the user can enter the configuration menu both for the ethernet and VoIP features.
  • Page 24 VoiceGATE H.323 Configuration Menu VoiceGATE Ethernet The WAN configuration menu is very simple as the parameters for the ADSL configuration are missing. Just insert the IP Address, Subnet Mask e Gateway to be used for the WAN interface.. Attention: The same parameters here used must be inserted also in the LAN configuration.
  • Page 25 It is necessary that each computer in LAN knows the DNS IP addresses. If you don't use the VoiceGATE H.323 DHCP server, you must insert the DNS addresses manually in the Ethernet card properties of each PC. You have two options: 1.
  • Page 27 VoiceGATE H.323 VoiP 5. VOIP 5.1. TELEPHONY It allows the configuration and the reading of the parameters concerning the telephones lines. Besides the telephone numbers you can also configure some options like Clir, Clip, Modem/Fax, T.38, DiB, DoB, Bcap and Codec.
  • Page 28 VoiceGATE H.323 VoiP 5.2. ISDN On the VoiceGATEs with ISDN interface, you will be able to set the specific ISDN configuration parameters selecting “Go to Isdn Configuration”. Tei: TEI setting (Automatic or Fixed). To be selected according to the setting of the used switchboard/telefone.
  • Page 29 VoiceGATE H.323 VoiP 2 numbers set for the 4 lines Telephone Number Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 In this case the calls coming to the number 111 will be cyclically routed to the lines 1 and 2, while the calls coming to the number 222 will be cyclically routed to the lines 3 and 4.
  • Page 30 VoiceGATE H.323 VoiP 5.3. H.323 Note: In the new firmware versions the G.731.1 codec is no more supported. Call Setting: defines the Voice working mode. It can be set to work with the Gatekeeper or with the internal address book.
  • Page 31 VoiceGATE H.323 VoiP 5.4. ADVANCED VOICE CONFIGURATION From this menu it is possible to manage some advanced functions of VoiceGATE. The default values are the ones shown in the image. Dob by: It defines the protocol used to send the DTMF tones out band (DoB).
  • Page 32 VoiceGATE H.323 VoiP 5.5. H.450 It is possible to read and configure the parameters concerning the voice supplementary services, according the H.450 standard. You will find here a brief description of the various supplementary services. For almost all the supplementary services it is necessary to hold on a call (H.450.4 service enabled). This operation is carried out through the “R”...
  • Page 33 VoiceGATE H.323 VoiP H.450.4 Call Hold The H.450.4 service allows to put on hold a call and to call another number. Once the two calls have been activated, you can: Press R + 1 -> To close the active call and recover the on hold call.
  • Page 35 VoiceGATE H.323 VoiceGate.exe 6. VOICEGATE.EXE Use the VoiceGATE utility to : Create the “AddressBook” Load the AddressBook in the VoiceGATEs Upgrade the VoiceGATE firmware In the following paragraphs you will find some information on the use of the program; for further details refer to the Help on-line.
  • Page 36 VoiceGATE H.323 VoiceGate.exe To insert new IP addresses/telephone numbers: Insert the WAN IP address (Public Network …) of the VoiceGate (for example 80.204.9.194) Insert the first telephone number you want to associate to VoiceGate foe example 101) Click on Add to confirm To insert the second telephone number: Insert the WAN IP address of the VoiceGate (for example 80.204.9.194)
  • Page 37 VoiceGATE H.323 VoiceGate.exe Gateway IP Address The IP Address field concerning the Gateway represents the IP Address of an eventual PSTN/ISDN Gateway. The Gateway allows the communication between the VoIP network and the traditional telephone lines (PSTN, ISDN and GSM). If the VoiceGATE doesn’t find the number selected in the address book, it sends it to the Gateway, that will call the selected number.
  • Page 38 VoiceGATE H.323 VoiceGate.exe 6.2. ADDRESS BOOK UPGRADE Through the Address Book Upgrade you can send the address book with the Address Book Management. After selecting Address Book Upgrade choose the address book file to be sent. Insert the IP address, UserID and Password of the VoiceGATE to which you must send the address book, then confirm with ADD.
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