[asterisk-users] Sending calls from behind NAT

[Duncan Turnbull]

On 14/11/2012, at 10:16 AM, bilal ghayyad <bilmar_gh at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dears;
> 
> It seems my service provider is requesting a complicated settings to allow me to send from behind NAT. 
> 
> What they said:
> 
> "It shouldn't matter as long as you are handling the NAT correctly your end. We do not fix NAT so if you're sending internal addresses in your INVITEs or SDP then things will fail but if you're handling it correctly, we shouldn't tell the difference".
> 
> 
> Really, I did not understand what exactly they need. But maybe what they need is to see my public IP address without the private IP address (this what I understood if I am right).
> 
> I tried to use the following in the [general] settings in the sip.conf
> 
> localnet=192.168.10.2/255.255.255.254
> externadd =196.40.164.239
> 
This should be externip not externadd

You are still sending them your local address

Cheers Duncan