Actually it requires CHANGING the SIP protocol. Asterisk already changes the SIP protocol when you use nat=yes and many clients also change the SIP protocol to work with NAT.
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 11:31, Chris Albertson wrote: > Asterisk works perfectly fine in back of a NAT firewall, as long > as all of your SIP phones are also in back of that same fire > wall ;-) > > Seriously, I'd fix this if I knew enough about SIP protocol. > Is anyone willing to write up what is required at the "bit and byte > level"? One thing that could help is try this and report > findings: > > X-Lite _can_ dail out to FWD through a firewall but Asterisk can't. > SO this gives us the perfect chance to compare the content of > outbound packets where we have a working and non-working example. > > I'd look into hacking Asterisk to mimic the X-Lite generated > SIP protocol. > > Put the result on the wiki. Doing this will greatly speed up > the fix. > > > > --- WipeOut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Evans wrote: > > > > >Hi All > > > > > >Has anything been done to fix the issue where the * box is sat > > behind a > > >nat firewall? > > > > > >Regards > > > > > >Mark > > > > > > > > > > > As far as I know it can't be done.. The server has to be on a public > > IP.. > > > > You could try using a SIP aware router like the intertex range but I > > don't know how much milage you will get from that.. > > > > Later.. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > ===== > Chris Albertson > Home: 310-376-1029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cell: 310-990-7550 > Office: 310-336-5189 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > KG6OMK > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search > http://shopping.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- Sample configs, scripts, more : http://www.fnords.org/~eric/asterisk/ BTEL Consulting 504-899-1387 or 850-484-4545 or 877-677-9643 _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users