[Serusers] can't establish calls whenever using outbound proxy

[jeff kwong]

Hi again!

I used the nathelper.cfg from the cvs to use ser as an outbound proxy
with rtpproxy. I commented out some parts which I thought I would not
be needing. rtpproxy is working fine as well as ser. I placed my
outbound proxy with a public ip and two ipphones behind nat. The
phones were able to register, however whenever I call one using the
other ipphone, my request timeouts and I get a busy signal. However,
when i place one ipphone to the public and the other still behind nat.
I was able to recieve a ring, calling from the nated to the public.
And when both phones are in public, thus bypassing the outbond proxy,
my calls go perfectly through. When i checked the dumps at the
outbound proxy, it seems the soft switch does not return an "ok signal
" or anything at all after recieving an invite with authentication,
that is whenever using an OP. Are these symptoms familiar to anybody
here? Any help would be most welcome. Btw I posted my ser.cfg file
here just in case.




#
# $Id: nathelper.cfg,v 1.1 2003/11/10 14:15:36 janakj Exp $
#
# simple quick-start config script including nathelper support

# This default script includes nathelper support. To make it work
# you will also have to install Maxim's RTP proxy. The proxy is enforced
# if one of the parties is behind a NAT.
#
# If you have an endpoing in the public internet which is known to
# support symmetric RTP (Cisco PSTN gateway or voicemail, for example),
# then you don't have to force RTP proxy. If you don't want to enforce
# RTP proxy for some destinations than simply use t_relay() instead of
# route(1)
#
# Sections marked with !! Nathelper contain modifications for nathelper
#
# NOTE !! This config is EXPERIMENTAL !
#
# ----------- global configuration parameters ------------------------

debug=3         # debug level (cmd line: -dddddddddd)
fork=yes
log_stderror=no	# (cmd line: -E)

/* Uncomment these lines to enter debugging mode
fork=no
log_stderror=yes
*/

check_via=no	# (cmd. line: -v)
dns=no           # (cmd. line: -r)
rev_dns=no      # (cmd. line: -R)
port=5060
children=4
fifo="/tmp/ser_fifo"

# ------------------ module loading ----------------------------------

# Uncomment this if you want to use SQL database
#loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/mysql.so"

loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/sl.so"
loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/tm.so"
loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/rr.so"
loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/maxfwd.so"
loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/usrloc.so"
loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/registrar.so"
loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/textops.so"

# Uncomment this if you want digest authentication
# mysql.so must be loaded !
#loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/auth.so"
#loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/auth_db.so"

# !! Nathelper
loadmodule "/usr/local/lib/ser/modules/nathelper.so"

# ----------------- setting module-specific parameters ---------------

# -- usrloc params --

modparam("usrloc", "db_mode",   0)

# Uncomment this if you want to use SQL database
# for persistent storage and comment the previous line
#modparam("usrloc", "db_mode", 2)

# -- auth params --
# Uncomment if you are using auth module
#
#modparam("auth_db", "calculate_ha1", yes)
#
# If you set "calculate_ha1" parameter to yes (which true in this config),
# uncomment also the following parameter)
#
#modparam("auth_db", "password_column", "password")

# -- rr params --
# add value to ;lr param to make some broken UAs happy
modparam("rr", "enable_full_lr", 1)

# !! Nathelper
modparam("registrar", "nat_flag", 6)
modparam("nathelper", "natping_interval", 30) # Ping interval 30 s
modparam("nathelper", "ping_nated_only", 1)   # Ping only clients behind NAT

# -------------------------  request routing logic -------------------

# main routing logic

route{

	# initial sanity checks -- messages with
	# max_forwards==0, or excessively long requests
	if (!mf_process_maxfwd_header("10")) {
		sl_send_reply("483","Too Many Hops");
		break;
	};
	if (msg:len >=  max_len ) {
		sl_send_reply("513", "Message too big");
		break;
	};

        # !! Nathelper
	# Special handling for NATed clients; first, NAT test is
	# executed: it looks for via!=received and RFC1918 addresses
	# in Contact (may fail if line-folding is used); also,
	# the received test should, if completed, should check all
	# vias for rpesence of received
	if (nat_uac_test("3")) {
		# Allow RR-ed requests, as these may indicate that
		# a NAT-enabled proxy takes care of it; unless it is
		# a REGISTER

		if (method == "REGISTER" || ! search("^Record-Route:")) {
		    log("LOG: Someone trying to register from private IP, rewriting\n");

		    # This will work only for user agents that support symmetric
		    # communication. We tested quite many of them and majority is
		    # smart enough to be symmetric. In some phones it takes a configuration
		    # option. With Cisco 7960, it is called NAT_Enable=Yes, with kphone it is
		    # called "symmetric media" and "symmetric signalling".

		    fix_nated_contact(); # Rewrite contact with source IP of signalling
		    if (method == "INVITE") {
		        fix_nated_sdp("1"); # Add direction=active to SDP
		    };
		    force_rport(); # Add rport parameter to topmost Via
		    setflag(6);    # Mark as NATed
		};
	};

	# we record-route all messages -- to make sure that
	# subsequent messages will go through our proxy; that's
	# particularly good if upstream and downstream entities
	# use different transport protocol
	if (!method=="REGISTER") record_route();

	# subsequent messages withing a dialog should take the
	# path determined by record-routing
	if (loose_route()) {
		# mark routing logic in request
		append_hf("P-hint: rr-enforced\r\n");
		route(1);
		break;
	};

	if (!uri==myself) {
		# mark routing logic in request
		append_hf("P-hint: outbound\r\n");
		route(1);
		break;
	};

	# if the request is for other domain use UsrLoc
	# (in case, it does not work, use the following command
	# with proper names and addresses in it)
	if (uri==myself) {

		if (method=="REGISTER") {

# Uncomment this if you want to use digest authentication
#			if (!www_authorize("iptel.org", "subscriber")) {
#				www_challenge("iptel.org", "0");
#				break;
#			};

			save("location");
			break;
		};

		lookup("aliases");
		if (!uri==myself) {
			append_hf("P-hint: outbound alias\r\n");
			route(1);
			break;
		};

		# native SIP destinations are handled using our USRLOC DB
		if (!lookup("location")) {
			sl_send_reply("404", "Not Found");
			break;
		};
	};
	append_hf("P-hint: usrloc applied\r\n"); 
	route(1);
}

route[1] 
{
	# !! Nathelper
	if (uri=~"[@:](192\.168\.|10\.|172\.(1[6-9]|2[0-9]|3[0-1])\.)" &&
!search("^Route:")){
	    sl_send_reply("479", "We don't forward to private IP addresses");
	    break;
        };

	# if client or server know to be behind a NAT, enable relay
	if (isflagset(6)) {
	    force_rtp_proxy();
	};

	# NAT processing of replies; apply to all transactions (for example,
	# re-INVITEs from public to private UA are hard to identify as
	# NATed at the moment of request processing); look at replies
	t_on_reply("1");

	# send it out now; use stateful forwarding as it works reliably
	# even for UDP2TCP
	if (!t_relay()) {
		sl_reply_error();
	};
}

# !! Nathelper
onreply_route[1] {
    # NATed transaction ?
    if (isflagset(6) && status =~ "(183)|2[0-9][0-9]") {
        fix_nated_contact();
	force_rtp_proxy();
    # otherwise, is it a transaction behind a NAT and we did not
    # know at time of request processing ? (RFC1918 contacts)
    } else if (nat_uac_test("1")) {
        fix_nated_contact();
    };
}