[Freeswitch-users] External profile & NAT

[Michael Collins]

After you add the external profile you need to reloadxml and then you need
to start the profile - assuming you didn't just restart FreeSWITCH or
reload mod_sofia.

-MC

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:06 AM, ocset <ocset at the800group.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I would like to allow a person with a softphone app to register with
> Freeswitch (extension 1111) when they are outside the office network.
>
> I would like to to implement this using an external profile. According
> to the wiki page (http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/External_profile) I
> just need to create a copy of the "conf/sip_profiles/external.xml" file
> and change the port number to 5090 (and also open the port on the
> modem). When I do a "sofia status", this new gateway does not show up
> and to be honest, I don't quite understand how that works and what else
> to read to make sense of what to do.
>
> What are the ways in which other Freeswitch admins are granting access
> to external devices?
>
> ps. just to confirm, do I set external_rtp_ip and external_sip_ip to the
> fix IP address that my ISP has given me - the one that is shown by
> www.whatsmyip.org?
>
> Please help
> Thanks
> O.
>
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