[Asterisk-Users] Setting NAT=yes for not NATed clients

Eric Wieling eric at fnords.org
Mon Mar 14 11:30:15 MST 2005


Roman Zhovtulya wrote:

> Hello,
> I wonder if I would have to sacrifice anything if I set "NAT=yes" for
> all sip clients I have, regardless of whether they are behind the NAT or
> not.
> 
> The idea is to have the setting that works regardless of whether the
> user is behind the NAT or not, since I'm not sure what connection that
> particular user has to Internet at the moment.
> 
> I've tried and NAT=yes works even for those clients that are not behind
> the NAT.
> 
> Is there any peformance problems/etc if I set NAT=yes for all clients?

A few SIP devices won't work with nat=yes.  The Uniden UIP200 comes to 
mind.  I don't know of any others.

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