[asterisk-users] Which internet phone protocol best to choose

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
Sat Sep 13 03:09:18 CDT 2008


On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:14:40PM -0400, Steve Totaro wrote:

> I think the most notably missing solution is OpenVPN and SIP.
> 
> One port for the tunnel, encrypted traffic, benefits of IAX as far as
> firewalls and hostile governments (BTW, IAX2 is not as obscure as it
> once was, therefore, the hostile government argument is not as
> anywhere as strong as a VPN).
> 
> Since you will be running SIP over the VPN, you get the
> interoperability that SIP provides.
> 
> I am sure you could pretty quickly find someone to offer you the
> gateway side of the VPN for a small charge, or a virtual hosted server
> should do fine.  I have not looked but there may be some VoIP
> providers that offer or would accommodate OpenVPN tunnels.

How does Asterisk live with the extra network interface used for the
tunnel?
(Specifically with SIP)

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