VoIP and SSH

[usleepless at gmail.com]

On Jan 4, 2008 9:29 PM, Ryan Phillips <ryan-bsd at trolocsis.com> wrote:
> Andrew Falanga <af300wsm at gmail.com> said:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I don't understand this one and I'm hoping someone here might know.  My
> > father's router wasn't forwarding connection requests for any port that we'd
> > configured for sshd to listen on.  After changing out his linksys router and
> > his Cable MODEM (the company said it was a very old modem), the problem was
> > still present.  Oddly enough, if he unplugs his VoIP box from his network,
> > all this problem goes away and connection requests over ssh and port 22 are
> > forwarded fine.  With the VoIP box present, it doesn't work.
> >
> > Neither the FreeBSD machine or the VoIP box share IPs, but it doesn't work
> > with the VoIP in the network.  Any ideas?
>
> Does the VoIP box provide DHCP?  Perhaps that conflicts with the router's
> DHCP service.

does the voip-box provide a ssh service? is it using upnp to
reconfigure the modem?

regards,

usleep