[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and firewall

[brett at websmyths.com]

On 10/7/2005, "Arjan van Eersel" <ik at arjanvaneersel.nl> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have installed an asterisk server at my office, the server is behind a
> firewall. On the firewall I've set NAT a rule for incoming traffic on
> port 5060 to be forwarded to the server.
>
> Connecting from home with my sip client doesn't work at all.
>
> The asterisk server itself is ok, when I make a local connection at my
> office, 10.0.0.129 (client) to 10.0.0.6 (asterisk server) it works all
> perfect.
>
> Should I perhaps open more ports in the NAT settings?

Oh ya - this is SIP!  Check you rtp.conf and forward those ports UDP as
well.

And set your SIP client to use them if you can. Otherwise change them.

Brett