[asterisk-users] (NAT) direct media to host on local net when registering from external address

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Tue, 2019-01-15 at 12:01 -0500, Joshua C. Colp wrote:
> 
> The chan_sip module has this implemented under the "nat" option using
> "comedia" as I recall.

Yeah.  The help for which reads:

Send media to the port Asterisk received it from regardless
of where the SDP says to send it.

> It causes media to be sent to where media was originally received
> from.

Right.  But this is the part I don't think I'm understanding.  What is
"originally received from"?  There is no media at the point where the
media session is being set up according the the SDP is there?

> As for whether it would work or not... this all ultimately depends on
> how exactly the intermediary behaves, what is let through, what is
> altered.  There's nothing inherent in either chan_sip or chan_pjsip
> to know/care, as it's just SIP. You'd need to look at the SIP
> signaling and the SDP to understand what is happening.

I have looked.  Asterisk on my LAN is sending an INVITE to the mobile
client and since the INVITE is being sent to an external IP, it is
(correctly for all other cases) writing the external IP into the SDP
payload.  What else could/should I be looking for?

Ultimately I don't think comedia is the problem or solution because
it's not where Asterisk is sending it's media that is the problem.

The problem is that Asterisk is sending an INVITE to the client with
it's external IP address in the SDP because it sees the client as being
external and the client is then correctly trying to set up the media
session with the external IP address of the Asterisk instead of it's
internal address.

What needs to happen is that Asterisk has to know "somehow" that even
though the client registered from an external address, that it really
is internal.  Probably that "somehow" doesn't actually exist at this
point.

Let me ask this, in the REGISTER request, where is the IP address of
the client taken from?  Is it taken from the Via: header?

b.

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