Nortel Networks M3310 User Manual

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Digital Telephone IP Adapter Installation and Administration Guide
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January 2005 
Planning for installation 
It is possible, when using a Digital Telephone IP Adapter unit behind a NAT 
device, that prolonged periods of silence cause the NAT translation table entries 
to clear and drop the audio path. An example of this is a remote user listening to 
a conference call with the user’s digital telephone set on mute. After five 
minutes (the default NAT translation table timer on many NAT routers) the 
router drops the voice path. The remote user is no longer able to hear the 
conference. To restore the NAT table entry and recover the audio path, the 
remote user can go off mute and speak into the digital telephone set.
To prevent the NAT translation table from dropping the audio path:
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configure the translation tables on the NAT router with a large timer value 
(for example, two hours)
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configure a static translation table entry for UDP port 20480
IP deployment
Before deploying your Digital Telephone IP Adapter unit, ensure that you 
engineer the IP network properly. You can configure a permanent (Model 1) or 
on-demand (Model 2) IP connection. The following guidelines describe 
requirements, conditions, and characteristics of each supported IP deployment 
option:
Model 1: IP permanent
If using DSL or a cable modem, configure an IP permanent connection.
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The Digital Telephone IP Adapter unit re-establishes its TCP/IP signaling 
session to the RLC once per minute.
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The Digital Telephone IP Adapter unit supports both static IP and, through 
DHCP, dynamic IP addressing
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Do not configure a remote IP address on the RLC.
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One virtual private network (VPN) supports multiple Digital Telephone IP 
Adapter units.
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One Network Address Translation (NAT) router supports only one Digital 
Telephone IP Adapter unit.
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One Port number and Network Address Translation (PNAT) router supports 
multiple Digital Telephone IP Adapter units.