On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Nik Middleton <nik.middleton@noblesolutions.co.uk> wrote:

HI Guys

While I’ve been using FS for around 18 months now, and love it to bits, it’s been a specific solution. I’m now looking to move my customer base across, and have on the base of it some basic and perhaps dumb questions.

I currently have around 150 Sip phones attached to my systems These are all geographically spread, so re-configuring them is out of the question. They all register on port 5060. Given that FS uses port 5080 for external clients, do I simply need to do a Port translate on my firewall or is there a simpler solution?

FreeSWITCH doesn't *force* you to use port 5080 for inbound registrations. You can, but it's not a requirement. Personally I just use the internal SIP profile for those external phones wherever possible. The real issue is whether or not you have a horrible NAT device in between FS and the Internet connection. In my experience, if you have a decent NAT device that supports UPnP (like the WRT54GL running Tomato firmware) then connecting external phones to a FS box behind NAT using port 5060 just works. Give it a try and let us know how it works.

Further, how does FS handle a call FWD? In other words, if a SIP phone has a divert on busy set will it account for the redirect? Currently in Asterisk I use the ‘I’ option to disable this as I can’t account for the call.

When calling to a FS box or when FS calls another server?
-MC