Sanjay Sinha (sanjsinh) wrote:
> I am not sure if I understand the question, but are you asking about how
> to use the ephemeral port that is created when a UAC sends a request, as
> the port in Contact header?
> If yes, then the port in Contact header should be the local listener
> port on which the UA is listening for sip requests and not the ephemeral
> port.

I sure hope this is the right way of doing it.    It will make my life 
less miserable.   However wouldn't using the listener address for the 
backward direction break NAT?


>  That port will be used by the UAS/proxy to route the response and
> is not meant to be used for requests in the backward direction. The
> UAS/proxy needs to create another connection in the backward direction
> on which requests on that dialog will be sent. There are security
> consideration with using the same connection for requests from backward
> direction.
>   

Can you explain what type of security issues this would entail?


Thanks!

Joegen

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