Hi all, Am looking for everyones advise/recommendations. I have am setting up a network of both office and home based workers. The office workers will be on the same network as the Asterisk box so no NAT hassles there. However, the home workers are on their own DSL connections so I imagine that most will be behind NAT. I had hoped to use Sipura SPA-2000's but I presume I would need either STUN or a proxy to make these work if behind NAT. Please could I ask for any recommendations as to which approach would be best and what software/hardware people recommend. Thanks for any help and advise, Neil
Neil Bullock wrote:> Hi all, > > Am looking for everyones advise/recommendations. > > I have am setting up a network of both office and home based workers. > The office workers will be on the same network as the Asterisk box so no > NAT hassles there. However, the home workers are on their own DSL > connections so I imagine that most will be behind NAT.For this I'd recommend a VPN (just use the standard MS PPTP VPN as it's extremely easy for non-techies to setup or be talked through over the phone). Then you don't have to worry about NAT settings. You can also encrypt the tunnel, if security is an issue. Tony
> Am looking for everyones advise/recommendations. > > I have am setting up a network of both office and home based workers. > The office workers will be on the same network as the Asterisk box so no > NAT hassles there. However, the home workers are on their own DSL > connections so I imagine that most will be behind NAT. > > I had hoped to use Sipura SPA-2000's but I presume I would need either > STUN or a proxy to make these work if behind NAT. > > Please could I ask for any recommendations as to which approach would be > best and what software/hardware people recommend.The spa2k should work just fine behind a nat box "if" the asterisk box has an interface with a registered IP address. The nat problems become much more difficult if both ends of a sip connection are behind nat boxes.