[Asterisk-Users] How do you handle NAT?

[hank]

I am fighting this as we speak
I have a friend who can't connect to me cause of a damn nat frankly its 
irritating me
so any recommendations are welcome
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Boehm" <mboehm at cytelcom.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 7:59 AM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] How do you handle NAT?


> We are interested in how other people are handling NAT problems. We have 
> several customers all of which have some sort of firewall/NAT device at 
> their location. For simplicity sake, all customers' internal networks are 
> 192.168.*.*.
>
> Our asterisk box is on public IP not blocked by any FW/NAT.
>
> I use QUALIFY=yes on all our customers' phones and I feel that sending out 
> 80-something keep-alive packets is causing our box to crawl and cause bad 
> calls.
>
> Would SER be better in this case? Should I have phones register with SER 
> instead of with Asterisk?
>
> Thanks,
> Matthew
>
> P.S. Yes, I have read stuff on NAT on the wiki. I'm more interested in 
> other real world, working, solutions.
>
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