[Asterisk-Users] IAX Registration being lost

[Tony Davidson]

> What doesn't make sense about that is that if you are setup 
> like this...
> 
> DSL Router ---> Your Firewall/Router ---> Asterisk Box

There's no DSL router, just the Smoothwall (Linux) firewall.  i.e.:

Your Firewall/Router ---> Asterisk Box

> 
> Then the issue of being dynamic will not matter to the * box. 
>  IP storing is mute since the end point and start point are 
> not changing.
> All that is changing is the IP on the outside of your 
> Firewall/Router and thus a momentary loss of connectivity.  
> AAH would not care about that in relation to what it has 
> stored.  It will just attempt the registration and pass data 
> to the gateway (inside interface of your
> FW/Router) just like before.  As far as it is concerned, 
> nothing has changed except now the attempt to communicate 
> outward dies on the first hop until the new IP is assigned to 
> the external interface of your FW.  
> 
> Try this.  Start some IAX debug in the CLI the next time it happens.
> Tracert your IAX target and see if you can get to it.
> Ifconfig the interface to see what is setup.
> 
> Report back.
> 

Great - homework :)  I'll have a look at this when I get home tonight.

tony

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