[asterisk-users] Routers that do not show external IPs...

[Tim Nelson]

----- "Stefan Schmidt" <sst at sil.at> wrote:
> > 	This is not a problem with Asterisk.  The router rewrites all
> external
> > connections with its own IP so even a SSH connection will seem to
> be
> > coming from the router (the 'w' command will say you are connected
> from
> > the router and not from the IP address of your Internet
> connection).
> > 

Isn't this the purpose and definition of NAT? Your private network sits behind the NAT while outbound traffic has it's source IP (maybe port...) rewritten to that of the external IP of the router? This holds true if the router's public interface is on another RFC1918 private network.

> 
> OMG thats the worst kind of doing everything wrong as possible i ever
> heard of. I wonder if this router works in ANY way.

Uhm...

> 
> You can try to turn of these ALG features which the router have build
> in
> and also these SPI (statefull packet inspection).

NAT isn't exactly an ALG...

--Tim