[Asterisk-Users] NAT/Proxy advise

[Rich Adamson]

> Am looking for everyones advise/recommendations.
> 
> I have am setting up a network of both office and home based workers.
> The office workers will be on the same network as the Asterisk box so no
> NAT hassles there. However, the home workers are on their own DSL
> connections so I imagine that most will be behind NAT.
> 
> I had hoped to use Sipura SPA-2000's but I presume I would need either
> STUN or a proxy to make these work if behind NAT.
> 
> Please could I ask for any recommendations as to which approach would be
> best and what software/hardware people recommend.

The spa2k should work just fine behind a nat box "if" the asterisk
box has an interface with a registered IP address. The nat problems
become much more difficult if both ends of a sip connection are
behind nat boxes.