Port forwarding for 86xx phones

[jjordon]

We have a customer who has a Mitel 5000 with 86xx phones
I have a list of ports to be forwarded for 53xx phones but 86xx phones use a different set of ports.
If anyone knows this list and can either post it or PM it to me, I would be grateful.
We had it working, but then they went and got a new router and did not forward all the ports.

[dwayneg]

Old 5000 manual lists these as 6004-6246 UDP (RTP), 6005-6247 UDP (RTCP) for voice, 5566 TCP and 5567 UDP for signaling.

[Tech Electronics]

Jjordon,

I do not believe the ports are different between sets. If you have the ports necessary to port forward 53XX phones it would be the same 86XX phones. The only times ports are different is System Model and Version Types never phone types.

Thanks,

TE

[acejavelin]

Jjordon,

I do not believe the ports are different between sets. If you have the ports necessary to port forward 53XX phones it would be the same 86XX phones. The only times ports are different is System Model and Version Types never phone types.

Thanks,

TE

No, I don't believe that is correct... the 86xx series IP phones do not "talk" MiNet, they use ITP (Inter-Tel Protocol) and use different ports than the 53xx series phones which use MiNet. Even release 6 documentation shows different ports for "ITP" IP sets (meaning 86xx sets).

The proper ports for 86xx phones are:

VoIP: 6004-7039/UDP
ITP Protocol: 5566/TCP & 5567/UDP

The proper ports for 53xx phones are:

TFTP: 20001/UDP (fails over to 69/UDP if 20001 isn't available)
MiNet: 6800-6802/TCP
SAC: 3998/TCP & 3999/TCP
RTP: 50098-50508/UDP

Note that the system manual also recommends these additional ports for 53xx phones, but I have never done them and it works fine for me in most (all?) cases where only 53xx phones exist in the network:

RTP: 5004-5007/UDP (I think this is just for really old IP set compatibility)
RTP: 6004-6261/UDP (The older controller main processor port range for RTP)
RTP: 6604-7039/UDP (The older controller expansion processor port range for RTP)

[Tech Electronics]

Everyone,

How embarassing for me, you send a technician to school, get him books and he still messes things up.

Here is the document that I use for IP phones. It just goes to show that without a laptop I'm an idiot.

Thanks,

TE

[acejavelin]

Eh, it's all good... If that's the only mistake you make today, chalk it up as a good day!

That being said, I think you can adjust your documentation somewhat, if you wish, you have more ports open than needed.

TFTP needs port 20001 -OR- 69, both are not needed.

Pretty sure MiNet phones do not use 5566, 5567, or 6004-7039... those are used by ITP phones only.

That being said, if you do your port forwarding according to the top of your list, you probably have all IP phone situations covered from the start.

This document is gold though, gonna file it away in my notes folder... Thanks TE!!!

[jjordon]

Everyone,

How embarassing for me, you send a technician to school, get him books and he still messes things up.

Here is the document that I use for IP phones. It just goes to show that without a laptop I'm an idiot.

Thanks,

TE

Thanks for the document. I will forward it to their IT guy.  Hopefully we can get audio.

[Tech Electronics]

Jjordon and Acejavelin,

Hopefully it will serve both of you as well as it has served me over the years.

Thanks,

TE