[Asterisk-Users] how to add stun functionality in asterisk

Rich Adamson radamson at routers.com
Tue Feb 21 13:47:05 MST 2006


Stun's primary role in life is to operate as an internet accessible
application to determine the outside IP address of your firewall or
nat box. Its usually called (by a sip phone as one example) at startup,
and the stun server returns the real outside IP address.

------------------------

> My understanding is nat=yes tells asterisk the device is behind a nat
> (and works even if it isn't) but stun actually keeps stuff open in the
> person's local firewall.
> 
> On 2/21/06, Bill Gibbs <bgibbs at edurotech.com> wrote:
> > What's the benefit of using stund vs nat=yes in your sip.conf for that
> > device?  I haven't had any issues behind firewalls when I enable that
> > option, and no ports are needed to be opened.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> > [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Matt
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 11:58 AM
> > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] how to add stun functionality in asterisk
> >
> > JP,
> > There isn't much to show :)
> > Yes.. I am running the STUN server on the asterisk box so that VoIP
> > ATA's and phones behind firewall's can connect to the asterisk server
> > with no ports needing to be opened.
> >
> > Setup is...
> > download stund.
> > unzip.. compile... run
> > WALA!  Stun server :)
> >
> > Then just put the address for the stun server in your ATA and it also
> > just "works".  You may need to tinker with the "VIA" settings in your
> > ATA.
> >
> > On 2/18/06, Koopmann, Jan-Peter <Jan-Peter.Koopmann at seceidos.de> wrote:
> > > On Friday, February 17, 2006 7:34 PM Matt wrote:
> > >
> > > > Yes Sir!   This is what I use:
> > > > http://www.vovida.org/applications/downloads/stun/
> > > >
> > > > Works like a charm!  Been running it in production for about a year.
> > >
> > > Good hint. Can you possibly provide a bit more insight on this? Are
> > you running STUN so that your phones behind NAT can easily connect to
> > your server or the other way around? I would really like to see the
> > relevant parts of your setup.
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > >   JP
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com --
> > >
> > > Asterisk-Users mailing list
> > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
> > >    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> > >
> > _______________________________________________
> > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com --
> >
> > Asterisk-Users mailing list
> > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
> >    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> > _______________________________________________
> > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com --
> >
> > Asterisk-Users mailing list
> > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
> >    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> >
> _______________________________________________
> --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com --
> 
> Asterisk-Users mailing list
> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
>    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> 

---------------End of Original Message-----------------





More information about the asterisk-users mailing list