Solved Does this IP mean anything to anyone? 192.168.99.184
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Had a routing issue with SIP today and the carrier was sending the RTP traffic to 192.168.99.184 (after the call was connected) which is not an IP at the destination.
I googled it and this IP pops up all over with routing issues on various routers and also with VoIP systems and carriers.
Is it a default IP used (for some vendors) when there is no known destination?
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The .99 IP is used by carriers (like us!) to signal to our routers that the subsequent bit after the ";" is important. Typically that gibberish is encrypted and contains routing information used for internal call routing. Here soon, it will also be part of our STIR/SHAKEN. So it is important internally, but worthless externally. Older PBXs can create headaches if your PBX thinks it should use it to route.
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@JasGot said in Does this IP mean anything to anyone? 192.168.99.184:
Had a routing issue with SIP today and the carrier was sending the RTP traffic to 192.168.99.184 (after the call was connected) which is not an IP at the destination.
I googled it and this IP pops up all over with routing issues on various routers and also with VoIP systems and carriers.
Is it a default IP used (for some vendors) when there is no known destination?
I will have to check upon my return home, but I think my ISP used a192. IP for its customers.
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That's a non-routable number. It's part of the private 192.168.0.0/16 range that anyone can use, but can't go out to the Internet.
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A quick search on this IP shows no usage. The pages that come up are auto-generated pages for SEO purposes, not pages about that IP address.
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The .99 IP is used by carriers (like us!) to signal to our routers that the subsequent bit after the ";" is important. Typically that gibberish is encrypted and contains routing information used for internal call routing. Here soon, it will also be part of our STIR/SHAKEN. So it is important internally, but worthless externally. Older PBXs can create headaches if your PBX thinks it should use it to route.
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@gjacobse said in Does this IP mean anything to anyone? 192.168.99.184:
@JasGot said in Does this IP mean anything to anyone? 192.168.99.184:
Had a routing issue with SIP today and the carrier was sending the RTP traffic to 192.168.99.184 (after the call was connected) which is not an IP at the destination.
I googled it and this IP pops up all over with routing issues on various routers and also with VoIP systems and carriers.
Is it a default IP used (for some vendors) when there is no known destination?
I will have to check upon my return home, but I think my ISP used a192. IP for its customers.
I just just checked . I have a 192.182 IP
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@scottalanmiller said in Does this IP mean anything to anyone? 192.168.99.184:
That's a non-routable number. It's part of the private 192.168.0.0/16 range that anyone can use, but can't go out to the Internet.
I know. And that's really the basis for why I am asking. "Is it a default IP used (for some vendors) when there is no known destination?"
https://router-network.com/ip/192-168-99-184
https://forums.grandstream.com/t/issue-setting-up-new-skyetel-trunk-to-ucm-pbx/35731And here's a packet capture showing this IP as the destination for the RTP traffic (from Skyetel)
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@Skyetel said in Does this IP mean anything to anyone? 192.168.99.184:
Older PBXs can create headaches if your PBX thinks it should use it to route.
Must have been our issue. We used our router to handle it and resolved our problem.
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@JasGot said in Does this IP mean anything to anyone? 192.168.99.184:
@scottalanmiller said in Does this IP mean anything to anyone? 192.168.99.184:
That's a non-routable number. It's part of the private 192.168.0.0/16 range that anyone can use, but can't go out to the Internet.
I know. And that's really the basis for why I am asking. "Is it a default IP used (for some vendors) when there is no known destination?"
https://router-network.com/ip/192-168-99-184
https://forums.grandstream.com/t/issue-setting-up-new-skyetel-trunk-to-ucm-pbx/35731And here's a packet capture showing this IP as the destination for the RTP traffic (from Skyetel)
We don't use it when there is no destination, we use it to communicate with our load balances and other routing gizmos. The stuff in "line=sr-...." gibberish is the actual data that we care about, not the IP.
Its basically a way for us to securely communicate across multiple routers that are unaware of each other's existence on a call-by-call basis.
