[Serusers] Outbound proxy

[Peter Gradwell]

Hi

At 18:00 29/06/2004, Aldo Armiento wrote:
>Hi all!
>I'm trying to configure ser to work with all clients behind a nat.
>I know fwd use ser + asterisk. I noticed that if I have a client behind a nat
>in fwd I have to set an "Outbound Proxy" (in Xlite for example). The FWD
>Outbound Proxy is fwdnat.pulver.com:5082. I noticed that there is a "ser" at
>fwdnat.pulver.com:5082.
>
>Why fwd use an outbound proxy and another "ser" at port 5082 instead using
>default ser at port 5060?

This is, apparently, because some customer routers and firewalls try to
do things to SIP packets and if you run it on port 5082 then it avoids that
problem.

peter

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