yes I tried that too edited the profile external.xml directly but in vain..so I was reading another thread here of a person who had totally inverse issue and Michael asked if he is starting freeswitch with -nonat , applying that switch while starting freeswitch seems to have worked here.<div>
<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Brian West <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:brian@freeswitch.org" target="_blank">brian@freeswitch.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Open the profile directly and edit it, vars.xml is for ease not flexibility.<br>
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On Jul 28, 2012, at 8:31 AM, SamyGo &lt;<a href="mailto:govoiper@gmail.com">govoiper@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
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&gt; Hello,<br>
&gt; Probably an easy thing but my luck I&#39;m stuck in this awkward situation here, I want my sofia external profile to bind to my private IP: 192.168.15.21 , so for the purpose I&#39;ve edited the vars.xml and sip_profiles/external.xml but still everytime I restart freeswitch it detects the Public IP and binds thye external-sip-ip and external-rtp-ip to the Public IP ?<br>

&gt;<br>
&gt; I&#39;m very confused at this and followed all the previous mailing lists threads and to-dos as well but in vain.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Waiting for a savior here.<br>
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&gt; Thanks<br>
&gt; Sammy Go.<br>
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