[Asterisk-Users] STUN vs NAT Helper

[Derek Conniffe]

I think STUN is quite widely supported by hardphones.  I'd be interested 
to know if STUN is a magic fix to SIP & NAT - I've a feeling that its not.

Derek

Waldo Rubinstein wrote:

> I'm wondering if anyone can recommend one over the other. I'm mostly  
> interested in running open source solutions, so I would prefer if  
> your recommendations are within the open source arena.
>
> Basically, I contemplated the idea of using SER as a NAT Helper and  
> possibly as a SIP server for a portion of our user base. We prefer to  
> have Asterisk in the mix because of the additional wealth of features  
> it can add to the SIP services (e.g. voicemail, ivr, call queueing,  
> etc).
>
> All of our clients are behind NATs, mainly basic NATs such as linksys  
> routers behind DSL modems.
>
> I read on the wiki that STUN is not readily supported by most  
> clients, so I don't know if its worth the effort or if we should just  
> concentrate on getting SER working with Asterisk.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Waldo
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