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VoIP NAT: Difference between revisions

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(Expand on "Why is SIP a problem", it probably needs a couple more volumes...)
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There are two answers to this problem:
 
# Tell the phone what its externally visible (public) IP address is. Some phones allow you to enter this in the configuration. If not, you can use a STUN server - which tells the phone what its externally visible IP address is, and attempts to tell the phone about the firewall itsit's behind. You can use ''stun.aa.net.uk'' as the STUN server.
# The call server can break the SIP specification and wait for the audio to come from the device and send its audio back to the same place - i.e. allow the phone to make an outgoing connection for the audio first. The SIP standard does not work like that, and indeed there is no requirement for the phone behind NAT to expect its audio to come back to the same IP and port from which is sends it. Of course many phones do this as it happens, and they might work in such cases, but some do not and they don't work. You have no way to tell when buying a phone, or upgrading its software. It is quite valid for the phone to stop working with your NAT and still meet the standard for SIP.
 
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