VoIP and SSH

[Ryan Phillips]

Andrew Falanga <af300wsm at gmail.com> said:
> Hi,
> 
> I don't understand this one and I'm hoping someone here might know.  My 
> father's router wasn't forwarding connection requests for any port that we'd 
> configured for sshd to listen on.  After changing out his linksys router and 
> his Cable MODEM (the company said it was a very old modem), the problem was 
> still present.  Oddly enough, if he unplugs his VoIP box from his network, 
> all this problem goes away and connection requests over ssh and port 22 are 
> forwarded fine.  With the VoIP box present, it doesn't work.
> 
> Neither the FreeBSD machine or the VoIP box share IPs, but it doesn't work 
> with the VoIP in the network.  Any ideas?

Does the VoIP box provide DHCP?  Perhaps that conflicts with the router's
DHCP service.

-ryan