[asterisk-users] Routers that do not show external IPs...

[Stefan Schmidt]

> 	You are missing the point completely.  Maybe I did not explain myself
> clearly.  The problem is that when you connect to the server from
> outside the network (Internet), Asterisk does not see the IP address of
> the device, it thinks the device is connecting from the IP address of
> the router itself (192.168.X.X).  This means that even if you have
> externip, nat=yes and localnet configured properly, Asterisk will think
> that the phone is on the internal network (because of localnet) and will
> NOT use the external IP address to communicate with the external phone.
> 
> 	This is not a problem with Asterisk.  The router rewrites all external
> connections with its own IP so even a SSH connection will seem to be
> coming from the router (the 'w' command will say you are connected from
> the router and not from the IP address of your Internet connection).
> 
> 

OMG thats the worst kind of doing everything wrong as possible i ever
heard of. I wonder if this router works in ANY way.

You can try to turn of these ALG features which the router have build in
and also these SPI (statefull packet inspection).

best regards

stefan