Overview Congratulations on your purchase of the Elastix SIP Firewall appliance to protect your SIP based PBX, VOIP Gateway deployments. This Quick Start Guide describes the steps involved in setting up the Elastix SIP Firewall Appliance. It comes with 1 fast Ethernet LAN interface and 1 fast Ethernet WAN interface. An additional USB port has been provided for adding the secondary USB storage that will be used by the appliance for archiving the security alert lock.
Figure 2: SIP Firewall Rear View Deployment Considerations The SIP Firewall has been made to protect the SIP based PBX/Gateway Servers against SIP based network threats and anomalies. Thus it is recommended to deploy the SIP Firewall along with the PBX/Gateway deployment as given in the following scenarios based on what is applicable in the user’s setup.
Page 6
Scenario 2 In the case of PBX deployed in the LAN Setup, the following setup is recommended as it would help to protect against the threats from both Internal Network as well as the threats from the Public Cloud penetrated the Non SIP aware Corporate Firewall. Figure 4: Scenario 2 Scenario 3 In the case of multiple IPPBX/VOIP Gateways are deployed in the LAN Setup, the...
Some of the PBX/Gateway devices may have an exclusive LAN/Mgmt Interface for device management purpose other than the Data Interface (also referred as the WAN/Public Interface). In such cases LAN port of the SIP Firewall should be connected to the Data Interface (WAN/Public Interface).
Configure the SIP Firewall Device IP Address from the “Device Settings” Page as per your local network range. Verify the IP address set to SIP Firewall from the dashboard page. Once the user assigns the SIP Firewall Device IP Address successfully, he can access the device using that IP address further.
Page 9
If the device is not accessible after configuring the new network configuration, Try rebooting the device and check the device dashboard accessing via Management Vlan. On launching the SIP Firewall WebUI, the web application will prompt to enter the administrator credentials to login.
Need help?
Do you have a question about the SIP Firewall and is the answer not in the manual?
Questions and answers