[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk behind NAT to SIP provider

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We just made interconnection from NAT-ed Asteriks to our softswitch. And
everything worked well... maybe because of our softswitch ..which is really
powerfull. We can test with you to see if it is a case.

Let me know.
Alexander

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rnc Info Lists" <info-lists at robertc.de>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk behind NAT to SIP provider


> >...
> >> At this moment, Asterisk behind a NAT can't connect to an outside SIP
> >> provider. If you put asterisk outside your NAT, your inside clients
> >> can connect to Asterisk and Asterisk will be able to connect to your
> >> providers.
> >
> > I suspected this would be the case. The problem is that I have no
control
> > over the NAT. I guess I'll just have to work on my provider a bit more
to
> > support IAX.
> >
>  Jonathan,
> I have the same problem and have solved it by using iaxtel.com.  Asterisk
> talks to IAXtel quite well on inbound and outbound from behind my NAT
> router. While I don't have the dialplan inside Asterisk completed yet it
> does do the following:
>
> -  outbound calls from any internal extension to any service
>    reachable over iaxtel.com. I've tested the following:
>           - USA toll-free numbers (until they stopped working this week..
>             seems to be an IAXTel problem)
>           - other IAXtel numbers
>           - FWD numbers (1 700 99 xxxxx)
> - inbound calls from FWD to my IAXTEL number ring into the Asterisk box.
>   Currently I play a message then forward them to an internal extension as
>   proof of concept.
>
> If you would like the parts of extensions.conf and iax.conf that seem to
> make it work let me know. I pulled bits and pieces from various places,
> including a number of the postings on this list over the last 2 days.
>
> All of this is rather impressive for me but my wife really wonders if I've
> lost my sanity...
>
> Hunker down everyone.. here comes the solar flare.
>
> Robert
>
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