I have recently started building a FreePBX server (latest version on the latest Debian) on a VM to replace the old Alcatel Lucent PBX at a hotel. The FreePBX Firewall is enabled, and there is also a Mikrotik router/firewall in front.
I am trying to repurpose one of the Alcatel Networked phones (Deskphone 8008) to use SIP and connect directly to FreePBX.
I am fairly certain it worked well a few days ago, but now, when I make a call, the call succeeds, but there are 3-15 seconds of silence at the beginning.
When I make the same call from a Gigaset cordless phone registered on another extension on the same FreePBX, or from the Alcatel PBX connected to FreePBX through a Patton ISDN/SIP gateway, everything works fine from the start. They are all on the same VLAN.
It seems to be an issue related to the Alcatel phones, but the settings in SIP mode are minimal (account, server, mode asterisk…) and it was working fine a few days ago.
I think it was enabled.
The problem is related to (something of) Alcatel Phone because with Gigaset VOIP cordless works fine.
But we have a lot of these alcatel phone and we need to try to solve.