[Asterisk-Users] Calling IAX client behind NAT

[Tim Robbins]

Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists wrote:

>On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:16:07 -0200, alexandre::aldeia digital
><alepaes at ad2.com.br> wrote:
>  
>
>>I try to explain again:
>>
>>Client(Firefly) --> NAT --> INTERNET --> * (public IP) --> SIPURA
>>
>>iax.conf:
>>[teste]
>>type=friend
>>host=dynamic
>>secret=<snip>
>>callerid="9955"
>>qualify=yes
>>    
>>
>
>This won't work with Firefly because qualify is broken in Firefly. It
>doesn't respond to the IAX POKE messages and then Asterisk will
>consider Firefly unreachable. Asterisk will not even try to dial out
>to Firefly because the remote peer is know to be unreachable.
>
>Put qualify=no and tell us again what the output of iax2 show peers is
>after reload.
>
This is actually a problem with all IAX softphones based on libiax2 (at 
least all that I know of).


Tim