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Ip  telephone  ringing but no voice being transported

Confirmed 7/20/2026

Problem

Ip telephone ringing but no voice being transported

Symptoms

both parties of a voip call cannot hear each other although the phone ringing.

Environment

FortiGate

FortiOS version

all Versions

Root Cause

In this case it is mostly that the VOIP proxy is enabled and trying to look into and scan the voip packets which is causing the packets become corrupt

Solution

running the following Commands should help disable the VOIP proxy:  

config system settings  set default-voip-alg-mode kernel-helper-based  End 

Delete the SIP protocol from the Session helper: 

config system session-helper  delete (SIP ID)  end  

Delete all Sessions with port 5060 (SIP Port), deleting the sessions help that all new created sessions will go through the voip with the new Configurations:  

diagnose sys session filter dport 5060  diagnose sys session clear

Verification

voip calls should now works fine

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