[Asterisk-Users] Running Asterisk behind NAT?

[Jim Flagg]

----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Andy Powell" <andy at beagles-den.demon.co.uk>
>To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 7:28 AM
>Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Running Asterisk behind NAT?

>Is this not just a case of a new entry in sip.conf

>EXTERNIP = <external IP>

>with the code for the contact header modified to use it (if present).
>Then the external firewall is set to forward the rtp and 5060 to * ..

>I know many people either have sip aware firewalls (as i do)  or
>their * box has a real IP, but the number of people requesting this
>feature seems to be growing by the hour.

>I'm trying to get this working for quite a number of FWD users, at
>the moment I'm trying to fudge it with partysip... it's not very pretty
>and requires a linux iptables based firewall.... it's not big, it's not
>clever and it's certainly not funny

I think this is a good idea but at least for FWD users can't they just use
the FWD proxy that is
designed to handle clients behind NAT with no special software on the
client.  The ones that
allows even Windows Messenger to work behind NAT.