[Asterisk-Users] RE: Plugging Asterisk Security Holes....

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Asterisk works fine across cipe tunnels, quite happily got IAX links
running to my home from work over a cipe link.

You probably won't get ssh port forwarding running because IAX uses udp
and I think ssh only forwards tcp by default.

>Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:53:46 -0600 (CST)
>From: <thisemailaddressisbogus at risehigh.com>
>To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Plugging Asterisk Security Holes....
>Reply-To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com

>Hello,

>I am interested in knowing if someone has done any work on

>IPSec
>VPN
>SSH port forwarding

>for Asterisk boxes. If so, it will be nice if we can all share our
>experiences here. I am perticularly interested in finding out which
>solution is the best for securing voice channels over the internet.
>Assuming we use IAX protocol, does it make any difference?

>Another topic of interest is securing the box itself. Does a firewall
>(hardware outside of the box or a linux based firewall) suffice the
need?

>Let's discuss some of the security issues around asterisk here.

>Thanks a lot for your feedbacks and comments.

>James