[asterisk-dev] Adding netfilter NATting/ALG support to chan_rtp

[Philip Prindeville]

Johansson Olle E wrote:
> 6 nov 2008 kl. 21.01 skrev Tzafrir Cohen:
>
>   
>> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:20:19AM -0800, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>>     
>>> Regarding my bug:
>>>
>>> http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=13833
>>>
>>> I just joined the mailing list, so if there's been any discussion  
>>> on how
>>> to go about this, can someone bounce me a copy of the thread?
>>>
>>> Anyone put any thoughts into it?
>>>       
>
> In the discussions that I had with John at Astridevcon, we where  
> discussing
> a generic interface to iptables/ipfw/pf through shell scripts. Might  
> be a way to
> avoid licensing issues with iptables/netfilter.
>
> I would recommend reading the doc John refers to in the bug report.
>   

I read it...  it was fairly generic.

If there was as special takeaway from it, it was lost on me...

-Philip

>>> I'm not sure what the licensing difficulties are with netfilter.
>>> Qwell:  can you explain that please?
>>>       
>> Any hope for this to run with Asterisk that does not run as root?
>>     
>
>
> I don't think you can be allowed to modify firewall configs without  
> being root or having
> root privileges somehow.
>
> /O
>