Greetings-
I’m experiencing an issue keeping a Cisco 7975 VoIP phone for a remote corporate user connected via vpn. Unfortunately I am not an admin for the IP phone, and cannot change/view much of the configuration. The 7975 is initially able to connect via VPN and register. After a (seemingly random) period of time, the VPN connection will disconnect and will attempt to re-establish itself. This disconnection typically occurs several times in an hour. Occasionally the 7975 is able to reconnect on its own, other times it will require the user to manually re-enter their credentials. While the VPN is active, the phone functions as expected.
The above behavior started to occur immediately after switching routers from an Asus consumer model to the Surf SOHO MK III (running firmware 7.1.1). After a few days trying to resolve the issue with the SOHO, it was necessary to fall back to the Asus. Since returning to the Asus, the 7975 VPN connection is solid, with no disconnections noted at all. Any suggestions on how to resolve this would be much appreciated, as I would MUCH prefer to be using the SOHO.
Thanks for reading, and if any additional information would be useful please let me know, and I will provide whatever I can.
Hello Rick-DC;
Regarding #1- this is indeed taking place on the same Surf SOHO. However, the issues can be reproduced independently of each other. The VPN issue was actually noticed prior to trying to establish the VLAN on the wired port.
#2- I am certainly not an expert on the Cisco VoIP phones, or their architecture- with that said, from what I’ve been able to determine the phone is connecting on the other end of the tunnel to " Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express" (CUCM). In the literature I’ve read it is only referred to as “SSL VPN”. Unfortunately this is a corporation supplied phone to an end user, and I’m unable to delve deeply at all into the configuration. It definitely isn’t PepVPN, which I haven’t enabled/configured at all.
Thank you for the follow up!
So returning to this issue- I’ve unfortunately had the SOHO on the shelf inactive as I haven’t been able to resolve the issue and keep the Cisco VOIP phone connected (it’s a deal breaker). I am wondering though, as the beta 8.0.0 firmware now supports OpenVPN as a server if it would not be worth trying again.
To summarize, the Cisco VOIP phone is trying to act as a client on an SSL VPN connection. The connection can be established, but after a short period of time (variable, at least a few minutes) the SSL VPN disconnects. Wondering if there is also a “VPN Passthrough” type setting that I haven’t configured properly? Thanks for any input/thoughts on the issue.