sundance-communications.com/forum Forums TDM Business Telephone Systems Inter-Tel Telephones & Systems Extra ports on 8660 IP phone

Just wondering if the extra ports on the bottom of the intertel 8660 IP phone can be used to set up a fax machine? If so, please tell me how.

Ideally I would like to assign the fax machine its own line through my axxess system.

I was told it is possible without additional hardware.

Thanks in advance!

The ports on the 8660 are Ethernet ports. Fax machines use analog dial tone to transmit and receive faxes. If your fax machine needs an ethernet port so you can access it via the LAN, then you certainly can use an 8660 port.

Thanks for the quick reply. The fax machine is not a LAN fax. With that in mind I guess that i am looking at ordering a pots line for that location.

I am also trying to setup these phones without vpn hardware. I am a computer network guy and think i understand the setup but after a quick progamming session on the 8660 i plugged it in outside my firewall (pix 506e) and couldnt get it to find the board. I am sure that it is a configuration issue with the phone, but maybe you could spell out the parameter steps for me.

i can ping the public ip address of the board from outside the network.

my PIX is configured with NAT to transfer the request to the local network. I set the ip address of the phone to a static public address that we own (thinking this might be my problem). programmed the phone to look for the public address of the board.

Let me know if you have any insight into this.

thanks.

Hmmmm, 2 statements that contradict.

"i can ping the public ip address of the board from outside the network."

OK, yer IPRC has a routable IP address on the public network, that's good but:

"my PIX is configured with NAT to transfer the request to the local network. I set the ip address of the phone to a static public address that we own (thinking this might be my problem). programmed the phone to look for the public address of the board."


NAT is a tool to allows you to route traffic from the outside interface of a device to the inside interface of a device. If you have configured yer card w/ a pulic IP address, it cannot reside on the inside interface of yer firewall/router. You must setup a DMZ and connect the IPRC to it. Once that is done you hold down the 7 and 8 keys on the 8660 while powering up to get into programming mode. Configure the Remote IPC address and save yer changes. The only things left are to assure that the fone is getting an IP address assigned to it and that the card is programmed for that fone.