[Serusers] Re: Using Asterisk as mediagateway with or without rtpproxy

[Leon de Rooij]

Does anyone have an answer to this ? It's not really SER or Asterisk
related, but more generic about security for a mediagateway..

Regards,

Leon

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 10:43, Leon de Rooij wrote:
> Hi again :)
> 
> Got one more question about using a mediagateway. Right now I've got
> everything configured that SER relays the call to our mediagateway
> (asterisk) when necessary. The mediagateway is also on a public IP, but
> only accepting UDP port 5060 connections from the SER proxy. (We use RP
> (reverse path) filtering on our routers, so the IP address cannot be
> spoofed). Come to think of it, I can additionally also filter on MAC
> address since both machines are in the same LAN..
> I read that a lot of people use an RTP proxy for forwarding the RTP
> traffic to the gateway (which in turn is in a private net).
> 
> My question is: Is my setup less secure than using the RTP proxy ? If
> so, why ?
> 
> Thanks !
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Leon