[Mac-telephony-list] Neebee question

[Dennis Dunbar via List]

Actually what I want to do is use a PAP 2 NA at a remote office.


On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:01, 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.
>
>
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> 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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>>  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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