[asterisk-users] Linksys SPA94x keep-alive reply replies to wrong address (1.4.32)

[James Lamanna]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Stefan Schmidt <sst at sil.at> wrote:
> James Lamanna schrieb:
>> It appears as though the 489 Bad Event response to the NAT keep alive
>> event responds to the local address, instead of responding to the
>> NATted address.
>> This causes Linksys phones to go amber (no registration) after a short
>> amount of time after placing calls.
>> Turning the Linksys NAT keep alive off is a workound, but non-ideal in
>> may situations.
>>
>> Apparently the asterisk devs don't even think this is a bug:
>> https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=17532
>>
>> Has anyone dealt with this at all?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -- James
>>
> Hello james,
>
> in the SPA config webpage on EXT 1 in the Nat Keep Alive MSG you should
> set $OPTIONS instead of $NOTIFY.
>
> then in your asterisk extension default context just set this:
>
> exten => s,1,Hangup
>
> then the phone will send a options packet and you will get a 200 OK
> instead of 489 Bad event.
>
> this should help.
>
> best regards

Thanks Steve,
I'll give that a try.
I think I'll also look into why responses to NOTIFYs don't do the
right thing in terms of NAT either.

>
> steve

-- James