On Wednesday 28 February 2007 21:26, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: > On Wednesday 28 February 2007 3:45 pm, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I am trying to setup an arrangement whereby clients on machines A, > > B, C and D can talk to each other on Softphones. A,B,C are are all > > Windows XP machines, machines D and S are linux. This has to > > include A talking to B and ultimately conference calls with > > potentially all parties. > > Personally I make my Asterisk box the firewall. It eliminates all > NAT troubles. :-)
Yes thats what I meant. My box S is the firewall and * will run on it. BUT, both A and B will have NAT firewall/routers outside of them AND somehow C and D will need to go through the S (does the traffic go round the outside of * or through the middle of it? > > If that's not your style, I'd use IAX over SIP, as it only requires a > port-forward to D on D's NAT box. SIP you may be able to get work > with port forwarding 5060 and 10000-20000 (all udp) over to D, but I am not sure I am following. Why is D different from C? if I port forward everything to D how does C get into the conversation > I'm not sure... Naturally, nat=yes and canreinvite=no should be set > all around. Why? and doesn't the canreinvite=no mean all the traffic from A to B goes through S, something I would prefer to avoid. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
