[Serusers] STUN server
Jan Pedro Tumusok
jpt at firstmile.no
Mon Apr 11 23:38:40 CEST 2005
Andres wrote:
>
>> It is worse than that. The STUN taxonomy is brittle, there are NATs
>> which feature different behaviour than anticipated in RFC3489.
>>
>>
>>
> Right. There is one we like to call the crap-nat. This nat changes the
> source UDP port every few seconds. So once the media flow is
> established it only works for 2-3 seconds until the nat switches to
> another source port. Needles to say there is absolutely no way to make
> VoIP work unders these conditions. We encounter one of these every few
> weeks, and the only solution is to have the customer change the NAT
> device he is using. (these are usually ADSL modems with inbuilt router)
>
Wouldnt it be a good idea to document such things, ie create a
repository about what NAT devices actually work.
Just an easy list of
Vendor, Modell, NAT type, Work [yes|no], Any special step needed to get
it to work etc.
I wouldnt mind help administering it, if it maybe could be hosted on
onsip.org or similar sites.
Pedro
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