[Freeswitch-users] Basic Question on the Internal Profile

[Costa Zikalala]

Thanks for the detailed response Michael, it certainly helped a lot.



2009/12/16 Michael Collins <msc at freeswitch.org>

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>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Costa Zikalala <costa.zikalala at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> I understand that to connect to a SIP Provider you have to (amongst other
>> things) define a Gateway on the External Profile.
>> But some gateways may be defined on the Internal Profile. What kind of
>> gateways would these be and what would be their purpose as most gateways are
>> External?
>>
>> Hope my question makes a bit of sense.
>>
>>
> This is a good question. First, remember that the profile names "internal"
> and "external" are just labels that try to give you a basic idea of what you
> might use them for. The external profile is generally used for outbound
> registrations, particularly when the FS server is behind NAT. If your FS
> server isn't behind NAT then you may want to use the internal profile for
> outbound registrations, although we recommend that your outbound
> registrations still be in a profile different than your internal profile
> where local phones are registering. In these cases it's fine just to remove
> external.xml, make a copy of internal.xml to something like
> external-nonat.xml, and then edit it so that it uses ports 5080 and 5081.
> For the record here's what I did for a user just last week:
>
> Old:
> <profile name="internal"/>
> <param name="sip-port" value="$${internal_sip_port}"/>
> <param name="tls"
> value="$${internal_ssl_enable}"/>
>
> <param name="tls-bind-params"
> value="transport=tls"/>
>
> <param name="tls-sip-port"
> value="$${internal_tls_port}"/>
>
> <param name="tls-cert-dir"
> value="$${internal_ssl_dir}"/>
>
> <param name="tls-version" value="$${sip_tls_version}"/>
>
> New:
> <profile name="customer"/>
> <param name="sip-port" value="$${external_sip_port}"/>
> <param name="tls"
> value="$${external_ssl_enable}"/>
>
> <param name="tls-sip-port"
> value="$${external_tls_port}"/>
>
> <param name="tls-cert-dir"
> value="$${external_ssl_dir}"/>
>
>
> Feel free to tinker and remember that if you break something you can just
> wipe your conf directory and just run "make samples" again and you'll have a
> brand new set of default configs.
>
> Enjoy!
> -MC
>
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