[Asterisk-Users] SIP, NAT & Asterisk

[Olaf Menzel]

Hi John, 
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thank you for pointing me to to some of the additional Asterisk documentation 
stuff. 
>
> http://www.digium.com/handbook-draft.pdf
>
> In addition, there are a variety of home-built pages.
> http://www.automated.it/guidetoasterisk.htm
> http://asterisk.gnuinter.net/
>
I found a lot of helpful hints.


> My suggestion is that if your Asterisk server is behind a NAT, the
> only hosts it should talk with are devices that are also behind the
> NAT, or other Asterisk servers via IAX or IAX2 which may be on the
> outside of the NAT.  

All my SIP devices in my home network are behind the NAT. The asterisk server 
at our institute has a official public IP address. Maybe the existing 
firewall ca make some trouble ??

Thank you for your fast reply and help


Olaf