[Asterisk-Users] H323/*/IAX <-> Firewall <-> IAX/*/H323

[Florian Overkamp]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> I have two H323 Polycom video conference system with a Linux 
> firewall Iptables in the middle. I am not getting to make 
> H323 working in this setup and I was wondering to put two * 
> servers as a "bridge" to "jump"
> the firewall using IAX.
> The idea basically is:
> 
> 
> 	h323 Polycom                 IPTABLES
>   VideoConference Device <--> *(LAN)  <--->  *(WAN) <---->  
> H323 Polycom
>                       chan_h323     chan_iax       chan_h323
>                     or chan_oh323                 or chan_oh323
> 
> Question before spending some time with it... should it work ?

It should, but as far as I have tested this, it won't. Someone commented to
me that Video RTP is not passed through the Asterisk H323 channel driver,
and therefore it won't work. I consider anything H323 a major pain, but that
might just be me. Some good documentation on how this would (have to) work
would be nice, but is currently lacking.

Florian