Hi all I was wondering if anyone can help me with a problem I am having with using TLS SIP when NAT routers are involved? The scenario is as follows - SIP UA --- > NAT firewall --- > Internet --- > Freeswitch --- > Internet --- > NAT Firewall --- > SIP UA When I use UDP as the transport protocol, everything works fine. This is down to (correct me if I am wrong) the NAT router being able to inspect the SIP traffic, and changing the SIP INVITE message so that the public IP is used for the RTP stream. This is seen in the following ( 1.2.3.4 = SIP UA, 50.50.50.50 = Freeswitch server) - recv 1042 bytes from udp/[1.2.3.4]:34019 at 08:40:24.302496: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INVITE sip:1004@50.50.50.50 SIP/2.0 Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 1.2.3.4:34019;branch=z9hG4bKD8xhgo0smbsOQMUy;rport Contact: <sip:1002@1.2.3.4:34019> Max-Forwards: 70 From: "1002" <sip:1002@50.50.50.50>;tag=A6E182EBB96E21919A44C50399F1BF27 Allow: OPTIONS, INVITE, ACK, REFER, CANCEL, BYE, NOTIFY Supported: replaces, path User-Agent: Acrobits Softphone Business/1.8.8 To: <sip:1004@50.50.50.50> Content-Type: application/sdp Call-ID: 2926496CCA1C6189C90A52D821B06B5E9DBA2B32 CSeq: 1 INVITE Proxy-Authorization: Digest username="1002",realm="50.50.50.50",algorithm=MD5,uri="sip:1004@50.50.50.50" ,nonce="09195369-6474-4310-b3a6-60e7d9c780f1",qop=auth,cnonce="1b774f833fd01 b5b29954c2ddc2b5457",nc=00000002,response="07bda5b4c5fa5e17f653a3e9c7a2f05e" Content-Length: 241 v=0 o=- 10805 6353 IN IP4 1.2.3.4 < --- Public IP address used so that the other party knows to send the RTP stream to this address. s=xynwwjx c=IN IP4 1.2.3.4 t=0 0 m=audio 34962 RTP/AVP 102 3 0 8 9 101 a=rtpmap:101 telephone-event/8000 a=rtpmap:102 ILBC/8000 a=fmtp:102 mode=30 a=fmtp:101 0-15 a=ptime:30 a=sendrecv This was obtained from the Siptrace on the Freeswitch server. The Freeswitch server then forwards these details to the other party. The problem occurs when TLS is used, as the NAT firewalls are unable to inspect the SIP packets. Here is another SIPtrace on the Freeswitch server for TLS example (again I have changed the public IPs to the same as the above example) - recv 1048 bytes from tls/[1.2.3.4]:64403 at 16:00:42.271063: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INVITE sip:1002@50.50.50.50 SIP/2.0 Via: SIP/2.0/TLS 1.2.3.4:64403;branch=z9hG4bKz6qAkQj3XsYuJ5Os;rport Contact: <sip:1004@1.2.3.4:64403;transport=tls> Max-Forwards: 70 From: "Ben" <sip:1004@50.50.50.50>;tag=F28D08D5E039D8FE021D08022A72F982 Allow: OPTIONS, INVITE, ACK, REFER, CANCEL, BYE, NOTIFY Supported: replaces, path User-Agent: Acrobits Softphone Business/1.8.8 To: <sip:1002@50.50.50.50> Content-Type: application/sdp Call-ID: 32166133760BDDAD823725B563F6A1B3989090D6 CSeq: 1 INVITE Authorization: Digest username="1004",realm="50.50.50.50",algorithm=MD5,uri="sip:1002@50.50.50.50" ,nonce="5af9829e-716d-4472-924f-84eb41d9e78e",qop=auth,cnonce="d641702f981e1 0f3a41e074061bdb5b3",nc=00000003,response="a9f577ac37f8f367b2f839a58d43e1e0" Content-Length: 240 v=0 o=- 71766 47529 IN IP4 172.16.234.176 < --- Using Private IP for the RTP details s=fscmvnc c=IN IP4 172.16.234.176 t=0 0 m=audio 64628 RTP/AVP 3 102 101 a=rtpmap:101 telephone-event/8000 a=rtpmap:102 ILBC/8000 a=fmtp:102 mode=30 a=fmtp:101 0-15 a=ptime:30 a=sendrecv ------------------------------------------------------------------------ As you can see, the SIP UAs are going to try and use a non-existent private IP address to send the RTP stream to. I can also confirm that the UAs are trying to do this, by looking at the SIP logs built in to the SIP UA client software. My (Freeswitch related) question is, am I able to set something in Freeswitch to change the details to be the public IP of the firewall? The SIP messages include the correct IP, can the Freeswitch server use this address and replace the Private IP with this one? I have heard about TLS proxies/STUn servers etc etc, but would much rather use Freeswitch to do this. Any suggestions are welcome, also please let me know if I have misunderstood any of the concepts behind SIP/VOIP and firewalls - I am rather new to the VOIP game! 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