asterisk users - Mar 2005 - How does asterisk do the routing?

Hi!

Imagine I have a SIP phone named A. I have a target phone named B. And I 
have an asterisk server called C.

No I call the target B from my phone A. Is the ip traffic routed 
directly from A to B or goes it from A to C to B?

Background for this question: I want to buy a DSL-router with integrated 
SIP client. (Mostly because of the integrated QoS) But I want to have 
the flexibility of asterisk.

So I want to register the SIP client at the asterisk server that itself 
is registered at the different SIP providers.

Does that work the way I want?

Bye!

Michael

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 17:13 +0100, Michael Vogel wrote:
> So I want to register the SIP client at the asterisk server that itself 
> is registered at the different SIP providers.
> 
> Does that work the way I want?
It's what people do here all the time. One issue might arise though,
i.e. where your * server is, on the internet or on your LAN. If the
latter applies, make sure your router allows registering his inbuilt
client with LAN servers, too (so it's probably rather about how the
router does the routing). In that scenario, of course all the issues
discussed here at length, like SIP and NAT troubles, apply too. With
your * server on the internet though you should be fine.

Regards, Bruno.