[Asterisk-Users] NAT and * - SIP Multiple login timeout

Rich Adamson radamson at routers.com
Thu Jul 15 08:52:57 MST 2004


> > I am pretty CERTAIN that Asterisk is not allowing multiple logins
> > from the same IP Address. If i sit and watch the CLI sip debug, watch
> > one phone register and call the other one, it goes through the
> > Retransmitting to find the phone.  Once the other phone re-registers
> > it rings again, but the other phone is dead in the water.
> >
> > Is this not normal?  Is there a command which allows multiple logins
> > from the same IP Address? or is it just supposed to allow that
> > anyways?
> >
> 
> 
> I also believe its not the NAT timing out because if i turn one of the
> phones off and set the re-register to 5 or 10 minutes, the phone will always
> ring.  Im only running into the problem when multiple phones are behind the
> same ip address.

FWIW, I've seen several cases similar to this (not with asterisk though)
where the nat box itself had a limit (bug or otherwise, unknown) as to
how many devices behind the box could use a specific port number.





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