[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk -> static nat -> laptop w/siproxd -> cisco 7960

[Jason Lixfeld]

On Jan 25, 2005, at 2:02 AM, Adam Goryachev wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 23:51 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
>> I'm trying to get similar working with a Grandstream.  I'm getting a 
>> lot
>> of echo.  My laptop is crashing when the call terminates.
>>
>> What are you using for the NAT setup on your laptop ? (firestarter)  
>> Are
>> you adding any special rules to handle the SIP phone ?
>>
>> I'm wondering if we both have the same problem, ie outside entities
>> can't get back through the NAT to the phone connected to the laptop.
>>
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but why would you possibly want the laptop
> to do NAT? Isn't your router or something else already doing that for
> your laptop traffic?
>
> So, why not just get linux or mac osx or whatever to bridge the wifi +
> ethernet, and then your sip phone will just talk to the network like
> normal...

Looked into that, but a lot of OS' have difficulties bridging ethernet 
and 802.11 interfaces.  OS X is no different.

Hence the reason for siproxd.

> Just my thoughts ...
>
> Regards,
> Adam
>
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