[asterisk-users] iax2 registration being rejected

[Steve Totaro]

Tim Panton wrote:
> On 6 Aug 2007, at 16:53, Jared Smith wrote:
>
>   
>> On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 11:42 -0400, John covici wrote:
>>     
>>> OK, thanks  -- I guess I hadn't quite figured out the purpose of
>>> registration.
>>>       
>> A device registers to Asterisk to tell Asterisk what it's current IP
>> address is, so that Asterisk knows where to send calls destined for  
>> that
>> device.  That's all there is to it.
>>     
>
> For IAX it also has the side benefit of setting up  path through nat  
> and port
> mapping  routers.
>
>
> Tim Panton
>
> www.mexuar.net
> www.westhawk.co.uk/
>
>   
Yes, since IAX2 only uses one port, this is correct.  Another thing to 
keep in mind is to set a low qualify value in Asterisk since some 
routers will tear down the connection pretty quickly.  The qualify acts 
as a keep-alive and prevents the router from closing the port and losing 
the map.

Thanks,
Steve