[Freeswitch-users] What ports are really necessary?

Michael Jerris mike at jerris.com
Wed Jul 31 20:32:40 MSD 2013


TLS, Web socket, Secure web sockets...

On Jul 31, 2013, at 3:50 AM, Ken Rice <krice at freeswitch.org> wrote:

> Keep in mind that’s only on firewalls that are sip aware, many are not
> 
> 
> On 7/31/13 2:09 AM, "Steven Ayre" <steveayre at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On a stateful firewall you can also choose to only open the SIP ports. That'll depend on your SIP profile settings. 5060 at least, and perhaps 5080 too.
>> 
>> The firewall could look at the SDP, mark the RTP ports as related traffic and automatically open them for you too.
>> 
>> That can -only- work with normal SIP though - for obvious reasons if you're using TLS it won't be able to see the ports being used.
>> 
>> -Steve
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 25 July 2013 17:56, Lloyd Aloysius <lloyd.aloysius at sunteltech.ca> wrote:
>>> SIP TCP/UDP  5060 - 5090  
>>> RTP UDP      16384 - 32768
>>> 
>>> Lloyd
>>>   <http://www.sunteltech.ca/blog/> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Jim Lynch <jim at k4gvo.com> wrote:
>>>> I'm running a simple switch.  No phones are connected to the system from
>>>> outside of my local network.  The only wan connections I have are a
>>>> couple of voip providers.  None of my phones on the lan call outside of
>>>> the lan.  All they talk to is the switch.
>>>> 
>>>> I see a bunch of ports listed at
>>>> http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Firewall but don't know if I need them
>>>> all.  I suspect I don't.  I want to close up the firewall as much as I can.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jim.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.freeswitch.org/pipermail/freeswitch-users/attachments/20130731/53f995fa/attachment.html 


Join us at ClueCon 2011 Aug 9-11, 2011
More information about the FreeSWITCH-users mailing list