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I'm reading the O'Reilly "Asterisk the definitive guide", 4th ed, with a starfish on it. In some ways, astonishing that it's not really that definitive, it's more general -- and it only clocks in at one ream of paper! In any event, I'm having some port problems on my home network: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/81752/ I need to open ports for

...of a question/issue with your router, rather than Asterisk. I have SIP devices working on my LAN, all hardwired, and have no need to open any ports or have the router address SIP in any way My switch is not managed, and the router ports on the LAN side are all unmanaged, just a huge Ethernet "wirenut" You SHOULD be able to communicate between devices on the LAN without any firewall issue. I have also found with some routers that the DMZ isn't what one expects, and can get in the way, depending on the firware. Does this router have any SIP ALG setting? turn it off! As an aside, I would...