[Freeswitch-users] NAT traversal - the final say..!

[Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]]

Hi guys,

I've still not had chance to look at this yet, been stuck working with
mod_cdr_xml for the last few weeks.

If anyone would else would like to make a start, please feel free - I'll
pick up as soon as I can.

Cal

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] <
cal.leeming at simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for everyones feedback on this, there's a lot of really useful info
> and this will make life much easier when writing the docs.
>
> I'm hoping to make a start on this within the next month (mod_xml_curl and
> mod_event_socket are first in my list).
>
> Of course, others are more than welcome to contribute as well :)
>
> Cal
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:12 PM, peely <freeswitch at peely.com> wrote:
>
>> IMO as a provider, FS does an excellent job at detecting NAT on its own
>> and
>> handling it. We've rarely had any issue with our end sending INVITEs to
>> the
>> wrong place or one / no way speech. connectile dysfunction does nothing
>> more. The only switch we enable is one to enable the SIP options ping and
>> to
>> use sip-force-expires to reduce the time the endpoint re-registers for
>> mobile devices.
>>
>> As with others on this thread, the ALG in most routers is the culprit,
>> I've
>> rarely experienced one which does anything beneficial, most screw up the
>> headers.
>>
>> We also recommend that customers change the SIP port on their handsets to
>> anything other than 5060, older BT routers especially seem to stop
>> forwarding responses after a few minutes, again as they have a very basic
>> ALG. Using port forwarding in the router is the only sure fire way of
>> getting reliable SIP through to a handset, Draytek routers seem to be
>> pretty
>> flaky until you do this or use TCP / TLS.
>>
>> If the router stops forwarding packets because of a poor ALG
>> implementation
>> or other firewall rules, nothing FS can do will overcome this.
>>
>>
>>
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