[asterisk-dev] RealTime, Qualify=yes, RTCacheFriends=(?)

[Gunnar Schaller]

This is a asterisk-users question, so next time please post there. Try
a "sip reload".

Regards,
G. Schaller



Friday, September 14, 2007, 6:48:52 AM, you wrote:

> This is giving me a headache.  I've got a nice external IP address Asterisk
> box and it's served me very faithfully.  Now I'm starting to let other
> "customers" use the machine as well.  I've really enjoyed using RealTime
> over the past month or so because it makes it so easy when I want to update
> someones password (especially since I like to do this all via the web).
> There is a big problem though for my "customers" when they use the system
> behind a NAT.  It seems one of their offices has a crappy firewall that
> times-out way to early with keeping these ports open.  I've noticed that
> since I'm using RealTime, I'm unable to support QUALIFY or other NAT
> Keep-Alive methods.  I could turn on RTCacheFriends, and everything would
> work.

> So here's my question.  If I turn on RTCacheFriends, is there a way to tell
> Asterisk to reload the table without a manual step or restarting Asterisk?
> What I'm hoping is I can either do it via the Manager Interface (AMI) or
> something close to that.