[Mac-telephony-list] Neebee question

Tue Nov 28 08:20:10 JST 2006

The biggest issue I had when my asterisk server wasn't the router was  
that if I only forwarded 5060 to the server I could get the phones to  
register, but couldn't get them to connect. If I forwarded the RTSP  
ports, it worked fine but the AV functionality of iChat AV stopped  
working for my entire network, which doesn't work for me.

The other nice thing about doing things this way is that my entire in- 
office Asterisk set-up is completely portable. I can pick the whole  
thing up and drop it anywhere and it just works, since the network  
settings and services are all within the Asterisk server. This has  
actually been helpful, believe it or not.

That's not to say there isn't a better way, it was just what I  
kludged together on the fly.

Ed

On Nov 27, 2006, at 5:53 PM, Lance Schlegel via List wrote:

> Using a SIP-based phone/softphone when connecting to a remote, NATed
> Asterisk system requires the use of a STUN server if the softphone  
> doesn't
> has one setup to use by default (X-Lite). A good info page is here:
>     http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+SIP+NAT+solutions
>
> I agree that using an IAX-based setup is easier, which requires  
> only UDP
> port 4569 to be forwarded to Asterisk to work. And, JackenIAX,
> http://www.jackenhack.com/jackeniax/ is by far the simplest and nicest
> softphone on the Mac.
>
> I good IAX info page is here:
>     http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-IAX
>
> BTW, my Asterisk system is NATed and remote access works fine for  
> both SIP
> and IAX clients. So, IMHO, I see no need to place the Asterisk  
> system at the
> network edge. Just my 2 cents.
>
>
> ----------------------------
> Lance S
>
>
> on 11/27/06 4:23 PM, Edward Eigerman via List wrote:
>
>> 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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>> Edward Eigerman
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>> Eigerman Consulting, Inc.
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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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