asterisk users - Sep 2003 - running * on a VPN gateway

If like me you run * on a VPN (or multihomed) gateway and want to serve
remote SIP clients, make sure you have 

bindaddr = 192.168.0.1 ; or whatever is your box's private IP

otherwise * might bind to its public IP and send it as return address in
the SIP call setup, which will (should) be rejected by your firewall.

To * experts: might this setting interfer with NATed SIP clients?

-- 
I feel naked outside of Vim. -- Ted Knab

Could the bindaddr=x.x.x.x be a way to make * work through a NAT?

I have * and a few 7960 phones behind a NAT. I am trying to register with a
proxy on the outside of the NAT. Registration is ok, but the VIA field has
my inside NAT ip address (192. 168.0.7). So the proxy doesn't know how to
send a call to *. Would adding my outside NAT ip address to the bindaddr
statement cause the * to put the outside address in the VIA field???

Thanks

Lee Goodman



----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis-David Mitterrand" <vindex@apartia.org>
To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 1:46 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] running * on a VPN gateway

> If like me you run * on a VPN (or multihomed) gateway and want to serve
> remote SIP clients, make sure you have
>
> bindaddr = 192.168.0.1 ; or whatever is your box's private IP
>
> otherwise * might bind to its public IP and send it as return address in
> the SIP call setup, which will (should) be rejected by your firewall.
>
> To * experts: might this setting interfer with NATed SIP clients?
>
> --
> I feel naked outside of Vim. -- Ted Knab
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