[Asterisk-Users] Setting up asterisk for one user in private ipNAT.

[Anders F Eriksson]

Hmm... For outgoing connections (from the softphone) that's true, but if you
want asterisk to send a call to the softphone the default would be to send
it to port 5060 (which is already taken by asterisk). If the softphone is
setup to register to asterisk on another port, there should be no problem.

At least this is how I thought it worked ...

/Anders



> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Greg Hill
> Sent: den 19 december 2004 00:02
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Setting up asterisk for one 
> user in private ipNAT.

> that isn't quite how ports work.. True, asterisk listens for 
> udp connections on 5060. But the softphone won't make its 
> outgoing connection on 5060. The OS will automatically choose 
> an unused port number for the outgoing connection. So (for 
> example) you might have the softphone talking on port 23107 
> to asterisk on 5060, and asterisk on 5060 talking back to the 
> softphone on 23107. No port conflict.
> 
> Now one place where you could have conflict is if asterisk is 
> trying to use your soundcard for its console. Then the 
> softphone client may have trouble getting the soundcard port opened.
> 
> Greg