[asterisk-users] Milkfish

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

In all my messing around with openwrt and dd-wrt this weekend I ran across 
"Milkfish" which appears to be OpenSER scaled down to run on top of 
openwrt and dd-wrt.  The "voip" dd-wrt v24 actually has it built in 
already.

We are about to launch an ITSP so have been testing a number of SIP 
hardphones in a great number of varying home situations, which has 
resulted in every SIP NAT nightmare that can be imagined.  One way audio, 
no audio at all, audio two way but one way video (testing the new 
Grandstream GXV3140), and on and on.  In many cases asking the end 
customer to open his home firewall ports to direct RTP to his phone is 
really beyond the capability of the customer and probably even our 
installers :)  So have been trying to find the right match of phone and 
router that can be dropped into place.

I had been thinking along the lines of a full asterisk install on an 
embedded system like *-WRT, and making the connections all IAX.  But 
perhaps Milkfish is an acceptable alternative - I can assume that the WAN 
port on these devices will be public, and as a true SIP proxy there will 
no longer be any NAT involved.

Have I got that right?

Cheers,

j