[Freeswitch-users] nonat?

[Antony Stone]

Hi.

I have just installed my first FreeSwitch server on a virtual machine on my 
local network, and I'm playing with it and a couple of SIP phones on the same 
network, in order to learn about it.

I've got the phones to register to the server (I've changed the default 
password in vars.xml), and my first test is simply to place a call between one 
phone and the other.

I've discovered the "NAT feature" of FreeSwitch, where it finds out what the 
*external* IP address of my Internet router is (which has nothing to do with 
the FreeSwitch server or the phones I'm trying to work with here), and starts 
presenting that address to the telephones in the Invite messages (inlcuding 
the SDP negotiations).

I've found https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/Auto+Nat and 
https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/NAT+Traversal which tell 
me that I need to use the "-nonat" command-line option to freeswitch to 
disable this.

However, this doesn't work for me:

# ps ax | grep freeswitch
 3678 ?        S<Lsl   0:02 /usr/bin/freeswitch -u freeswitch -ncwait -nonat

> sofia status profile internal
=================================================================================================
Name                    internal
Domain Name             N/A
Auto-NAT                false
DBName                  sofia_reg_internal
Pres Hosts              192.168.32.59,192.168.32.59
Dialplan                XML
Context                 public
Challenge Realm         auto_from
RTP-IP                  192.168.32.59
Ext-RTP-IP              198.51.100.21
SIP-IP                  192.168.32.59
Ext-SIP-IP              198.51.100.21
URL                     sip:mod_sofia at 198.51.100..21:5060
BIND-URL                
sip:mod_sofia at 198.51.100.21:5060;maddr=192.168.32.59;transport=udp,tcp
WS-BIND-URL             sip:mod_sofia at 192.168.32.59:5066;transport=ws
WSS-BIND-URL            sips:mod_sofia at 192.168.32.59:7443;transport=wss

As you can see, my public IP address (represented here by 198.51.100.21) is 
still there, and it's still getting included in the Invite message and SDP 
negotiations between my telephones.

So, how can I run FreeSwitch and two SIP telephones on a single internal 
network, without any reference to my public IP address?


Thanks,


Antony.

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