[Asterisk-Users] SIP, * and clients behind NAT

[Brian Wilkins]

On Tuesday 11 January 2005 07:12 pm, Wilson Pickett wrote:
> Even if I do get the ATA working fine behind my home NAT, I would have
> to do some reconfiguration most likely anywhere else I try plugging it
> in, right?  And, if I wanted to add another ATA at home connected to the
> same remote * server, it's most like not going to work without custom
> RTP port forwards, etc., right?

Using a STUN server in conjunction with your IP phone, will resolve some of 
your NAT issues. You can run the STUN server on the Asterisk server also. If 
you specify the STUN server settings in your ATA, it will do NAT translation 
and forward off packets to the Asterisk server accordingly. 


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Brian Wilkins
Software Engineer
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