[Mac-telephony-list] Neebee question

[Edward Eigerman via List]

There are a couple of issues once you get outside your local network  
and onto the public IP space.

The biggest issue for me, initially, was dealing with the external  
phone (in my case a hard phone) being NAT'd. This can be tricky. You  
may need to use a STUN server and let Asterisk know that the client  
might be NAT'd. It's much easier to use JakenIAX, since IAX as a  
protocol was designed with NATs in mind.

  Also you say that the Asterisk is behind a Linksys, so is the FQDN  
pointing at the address of the asterisk server or the Linksys? If  
you're forwarding ports, are you sure you're forwarding all the right  
ones? It's not just 5060. IAX uses only a single port, so again its  
much easier to use in this situation.

What I ended up doing to solve some of these issues was to use my Mac  
based Asterisk server as my router, so it's the the thing with the  
public IP address and all it's ports are public facing. I still  
needed to make sure that phones that were behind NATs were set-up for  
that environment, though. Anything I can connect to with IAX instead  
of SIP, I do.

Ed

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On Nov 27, 2006, at 5:05 PM, Dennis Dunbar via List wrote:

> when im on my lan the soft phone registers ( I chose extention 120 )
> and no password.
>
> when I go on the internet i enter the IP for the location of the
> asterisk ( it is back of a linksys) but the asterisk doesnt seem to
> see the soft phone.  I tried forcing the IP with a port number etc.
>
> Are you saying I must use a password?
>
>
> On Nov 26, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Ivan C Myrvold via List wrote:
>
>> You have to configure your soft phone in sip.conf with an extension
>> number and secret (password). And then you have to make the soft
>> phone to register itself with this extension number and secret.
>>
>> Ivan
>>
>> Den 25. nov. 2006 kl. 17.39 skrev Dennis Dunbar via List:
>>
>>> Thanks to a couple people on the old Astmaster list I got my iMac
>>> Asterisk up and running fine.  Now I just tried to use a soft phone
>>> at a remote location and the Asterisk didn't see it.  I though I
>>> would just have to put in my IP, configure port 5060 etc.  No go.  I
>>> have a FQDN going to the IP where the Asterisk is so I tried that no
>>> go.  I have good service in and out using VBuzzer and t38 out fax
>>> using Gafachi.  I really wanted to access my VBuzzer from a remote
>>> soft phone via Asterisk.
>>>
>>> What am I missing.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance.
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