On Sep 16, 2008, at 2:39 PM, Brian West wrote:
On Sep 16, 2008, at 1:32 PM, R. Eric Bennett wrote:
I don't recall seeing anything anywhere (while compiling, on the Wiki, etc) that would suggest that FreeSWITCH does uPnP (or NAT-PMP for that matter; this question is without regard to NAT Traversal religion) for port mapping. Is this a correct assumption?
It doesn't but with a two libs it could be made to do so. Their are two libs to do both uPNP and PMP with little trouble.
http://miniupnp.free.fr/libnatpmp.html
That would allow you to create a module to subscribe to events to make them map the ports back to the FreeSWITCH box. So mod_sofia could fire an event saying "Hey, I'm on port 5060" and your mod_nat could listen to those and poke the holes back to FreeSWITCH on those ports. Just an idea :) I have thought about it before.
Cool. But note again that I don't actually want the functionality myself, i.e. this is certainly not my lobbying for it. I think what triggered it was the combination of the problem with hand- configured port forwarding from a couple weeks ago combined with a recent, albeit misdescribed, question about port forwarding. Somehow this made me wonder whether the SoHo focus of so many Asterisk users resulted in uPnP/NAT-PMP support being added. It was much easier to ask here than to go find it in an Asterisk feature list... ;) thanks, eric