[Asterisk-Users] Phones were working fine - Now there is noaudiowhen calling between extensions

[C F]

I didn't say it doens't work, I said it's not the best, and if you
want I'll repeat myslef, Polycoms are not the best behind NAT, Cisco,
or SPAs are much better. Just because you didn't run into any problems
doesn't mean that it works well with all NAT devices.

On 3/21/06, Andrew Kohlsmith <akohlsmith-asterisk at benshaw.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 March 2006 10:55, C F wrote:
> > Polycoms are not the best if you want a phone that works behind NAT.
>
> Are you kidding me?  I used to think that anything SIP was a pain behind NAT
> until I turned on 'nat=yes' for the peer/user/friend entry in sip.conf and
> told the IP501 to register to the Asterisk box.  (All defaults too, no
> special hyper-fast register interval or goofy Polycom configuration at all.)
>
> And even after that I wouldn't believe it until I had three of them behind a
> plain-jane WRT54G on standard Telco dynamic IP ADSL talking to my Asterisk
> box connected through third-party ADSL.  Calls go out, calls come in, it's as
> if they're on the same LAN.
>
> Seriously: It Just Works.  I keep popping into #asterisk-dev and thanking OEJ.
> I'm still not a huge fan of SIP but I have had *no* issues with Polycom
> IP501s behind NAT talking to an Asterisk box on a real IP.
>
> -A.
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