Chris Bagnall wrote:

I know that I can stay with m0n0. The question still stands; are there circumstances when something more is required? Would something be gained by such a migration.

I would think the only real circumstances where true SIP-aware firewalls
would be required would be in an environment where one had many SIP devices
behind a NAT (and by many I mean more than it's reasonably practical to
assign different port numbers to).

I'm no expert on firewalls, so hopefully someone'll correct me if I'm
mistaken.
You want a router with outbound proxy when you have many devices behind nat. The outbound proxy will take care of the RTP port mapping and also be smart eoungh to ensure that RTP packets between proxied endpoints don't leave the LAN. Some outbound proxies can act as a registrar to allow local endpoints to call each other even when there's no connection to the default registrar. Take a look at the Thomson Speedtouch 610 DSL router/firewall with SIP http://www.speedtouchdsl.com/pdf%5Cdatasheet610.pdf

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