[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk behind LinkSys NAT Routing

[John Todd]

>Martin Pycko wrote:
>
>>It's new. It prevents asterisk from putting the private IP in the messages
>>that asterisk sends with SIP.
>>
>Hmmm. According to the sip.conf example:
>
>   [general]
>   externip = 200.201.202.203 :Address that we're going to put in SIP 
>messages if we're behind a NAT
>
>Does this apply only for register=> connections, where Asterisk acts 
>as a client UA?
>Or all SIP Sessions?
>
>Can we apply this only on ONE register=> connection, but not as a 
>default? That would be done
>not in [general] but in a [hostname] section of sip.conf.
>
>/O

Indeed, sip.conf needs a major overhaul to handle this and quite a 
few other tricks that the more 'advanced' users require.  See the 
thread I started some time ago that died out very quickly:

http://www.mail-archive.com/asterisk-dev@lists.digium.com/msg01058.html


JT