Comments on: UNIStim Firmware Release 4.0 for Nortel IP Phones

By: Michael McNamara

Michael McNamara — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:55:58 +0000

Hi Novice,

I’m not so sure I would agree with your assumption that IPSec is IPsec. I’ve had years of pure fun (being cynical) building branch VPN tunnels across different platforms using Cisco, Nortel, CheckPoint, Juniper, Linux, etc.

It’s possible that it might work but someone needs to test it out and see if actually works.

Thanks for the comment!

By: novice

novice — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:21:02 +0000

khalil abua asal: hi all: i’m intending to establish a VPN connection between Nortel 1140E phone behind a an ADSL SOHO router and a Cisco ASA 5510 appliance, but the connection doesn’t come up, i configured the PSK user id and password, the XAUTH user ID and passowrd on the phone but with no use, the error that keeps showing up on cisco ASA is: unknown tunnel-group id. can any one confirm to me if the cpn client on the Nortel 1140E phone is compatible with Cisco ASA appliances or not???Regards

Has anyone tried and got this working with Cisco ASA, I cant image Avaya would of made a custom IPSec client and not just natively create an IPSec client that is universal. I mean IPSec is IPSec

By: gwebster

gwebster — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:04:17 +0000

The integrated VPN Client in the 1140E is only tested for compatability with Avaya (formerly Nortel) appliances.

By: khalil abua asal

khalil abua asal — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:10:51 +0000

hi all:
i’m intending to establish a VPN connection between Nortel 1140E phone behind a an ADSL SOHO router and a Cisco ASA 5510 appliance, but the connection doesn’t come up, i configured the PSK user id and password, the XAUTH user ID and passowrd on the phone but with no use, the error that keeps showing up on cisco ASA is:
unknown tunnel-group id.
can any one confirm to me if the cpn client on the Nortel 1140E phone is compatible with Cisco ASA appliances or not???

Regards

By: Former Nortel expert

Former Nortel expert — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 02:52:55 +0000

There are SIP versions of firmware available for the 1165E, and the rest of the 11x0E family as well. The recent SIP firmware loads have much higher levels of security than what is offered with UNIstim.

By: Michael McNamara

Michael McNamara — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:29:35 +0000

Hi Jephph,

Thanks for sharing that information… when I have the opportunity I hope to test the 1120e UVC wtih the Nortel VPN Router 1700 running V07_05.350.

Thanks again!

By: jephph

jephph — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:44:28 +0000

We are using a Contivity 1010 running version 4_85.160 and it terminates these11xx tunnels without a problem. As a matter of fact, they work great.

By: Michael McNamara

Michael McNamara — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:57:45 +0000

Hi Steve,

I haven’t personally tried it but I’ve learned over the years that just because something isn’t supported doesn’t necessarily mean it won’t work. With that said if you did get it to work you might have to weigh the risk of going into a production environment with an unsupported configuration.

I have two 1700s and one 1740 all running 7.x software. I could probably test it out for you if you are really curious… or it might become immediately clear that it won’t work without some feature in 8.x software.

Cheers!

By: Gord

Gord — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:19:37 +0000

UNIStim 4.1 was just released. It allows interop between the UNIStim VPN Client in the 1120E/1140E/1150E/1165E and Avaya (formerly Nortel) VPN Gateway family running software release 8.01 or greater.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:34:30 +0000

Has anyone attempted to configure this tunnel with software release lower that 8?