Why redirection of VoIP calls to voicemail fails?
Hello, I'm in the VoIP field, and I am having an issue deciphering why I am not able to complete a call to voicemail. I have 2 phone systems tied together via a PRI, and I have a PRI for trunking to the outside world. ShoreTel is the VoIP system, and its also acting at the voicemail system for both Phone systems. Other system is a Tadiran TDM system. What is happening is, if I call from the outside world via cell phone or desk phone, into the ShoreTel and it then transfer to a Tadiran phone via the Tie PRI trunks, it rings 4 times, and instead of being transferred to the Voicemail on the ShoreTel, the call just ends. I have packet capture from the ShoreTel PRI that plugs into the Carrier, and a capture from the other ShoreTel PRI that plugs into the Tadiran. I see a lot of ICMP Destination Unreachable (Port Unreachable) messages, along with what look to be some UDP error messages. The 2 ShoreTel switches are on the same subnet, so there isn't any routing between them, they are plugged into the same network switch, and I can ping back and forth between the 2 ShoreTel PRI Switches. I was hoping someone would be able to look at my captures and help me figure out what is going on. This is for a big college, and they would really like their voicemail working. Thank you
Thank you everyone. Sindy, here are 2 links to the captures. First link is a Capture from the ShoreTel PRI switch that is connected to the carriers circuit, and the second link is a capture from the ShoreTel PRI switch that is connected to the Tadiran phone system. https://www.cloudshark.org/captures/5... https://www.cloudshark.org/captures/6...
So what's the Wireshark question here? You've seen the ICMP Destination (Port) Unreachable messages so someone is sending traffic where no one is listening. Sounds like a configuration or signalling error which support for either VoIP system should be able to clear up.
Who is the source of the ICMP message? That server/router is telling you that the SIP/RTP message is not getting through because no one is listening to the port. But since the phone rang, SIP must be working and the RTP traffic carrying the voice is not working. So concentrate on the source IP.
The ICMP port unreachable messages should indicate what was the destination IP and UDP port that was attempted to be contacted (you probably also captured the actual UDP packets that triggered this). I would presume that the service it is trying to contact is either down or the redirection is somehow incorrectly configured.
You haven't said anything about the amount of voice traffic on the gateways while you were taking the capture. The icmp destination unreachable might as well be a red herring and it might be coming only temporarily, whenever one of the VoIP ends was still sending RTP while the other one had already stopped expecting it. This sounds odd on the same LAN but is not completely excluded.
So if you want a deeper look, publish your capture, login-free, at cloudshark or at any common file sharing service and edit your question with a link to it, and indicate the calling and called number of the call in question.
Now where is the redirect to voicemail configured? I assume that it is on the Tadiran TDM system, so the issue may as well be caused by what the Tadiran does after the no answer timer expires - it may send ...(more)