[Asterisk-Users] Any work around for ISPs that block port 5060 and 69

[Remco Barende]

Can't you use IAX or alternatively, setup a VPN connection? With a VPN you 
will circumvent the port restrictions.

Cheers!



On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Joel Jn-Francois wrote:

> I have a several friends registered on my asterisk box that are experience 
> problems with their ISP blocking SIP default ports 5060 and tftp port 69.  Is 
> there any way around this problem or are they forever doomed to VOIP since 
> their ISP is pretty much the only ISP company on that island.  So far I was 
> able to have them change their default SIP port to 6070 and any packets 
> coming in on that port on my asterisk box I would redirect to port 5060. 
> That seem to be working fine, expect that they can make calls but cannot 
> receive calls.  I think part of the problem might be that when asterisk tries 
> to initiate a call to their sip phone it tries on port 5060 instead of 6070 
> even though I have specified in the sip.conf that their port is 6070.  Has 
> anyone else encountered this problem and was able to resolve it?  My other 
> option is to change my asterisk box to work completely on a different port, 
> but I am reluctant to do so since the majority of registered users for now do 
> not have an issue with port 5060 being blocked by their ISP.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Joel
>
>
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