[Serusers] ser as outbound proxy only

[Greger V. Teigre]

Hi Daniel-Constantin!

Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
> Greger, it seems that the guy already read the Getting started
> document ... or I do not understand right his message or you actually
> didn't read the mail :) ... I am sure that the document is very
> usefully, but you create a lot of confusion and some time looks like
> intoxicating the mailing list with such links (a lot of replies
> off-topic) ...

Sorry if you get that impression, I'm just trying to do good... It's not the 
answer to everything, that's for sure.
However, there is actually a config script without the auth, so it could 
help him for the untangling he mentioned. To me it looked like he hadn't had 
a look at that script, but I admit my answer was a bit schematic and was not 
intended to address anything else than the untangling problem.

    You see, people who subscribe to the list are not yet informed about the 
document when they subscribe (we don't want to do that until we are 100% 
sure that errors and typos have been corrected, which will be pretty soon). 
Until then newcomers must be informed either by looking/searching in the 
archives or as you call it: through "intoxicating" emails to people who seem 
to have a question that may be resolvable through the documentation.  Sorry 
about that, but I'm sure that you welcome the reduction of similar-sounding 
newcomer-questions, and I'm sure that if you had read the document ;-), you 
would find it useful to sometimes refer to it, too!

Jeff, to your second email: By using ONsip.org config files, a lot of people 
will have the same structure and it's easier to help you by understanding 
the changes you have done.  If not, you must at least include an ngrep trace 
of the messages.

It seems that messages are not coming through to the UAs behind NAT. It may 
be because the UA is not correctly detected as behind NAT, check with serctl 
ul show that the NAT flag is set (The GettingStarted document explains in 
detail the various nat test values.)

> Now, back to his topic, it is not quite possible to have SER NAT
> traversal solution based on nathelper/rtpproxy without having usrloc
> (user location) in the same place, which usually uses MySQL. You can
> try using dbtext instead of MySQL for user location, or disable
> persistence support in user location (in this mode after ser restart
> all contacts are lost, which is not recommended to have).

Depending on your setup (ex. more than one outbound proxy), you may also 
have to handle routing to the correct proxy (which will be able to traverse 
NAT for a particular UA). There was a long discussion on this 1-2 months 
ago, and Klaus Darillion posted a patch he made for an outbound proxy. You 
may want to find that post.
g-)

>
> On 06/14/05 16:09, Greger V. Teigre wrote:
>
>> http://onsip.org/ , go to Downloads and get the Getting Started
>> document and configuration files.
>> g-)
>>
>> jeff kwong wrote:
>>
>>> Hi to everybody!
>>>
>>> Im currently trying to setup an outbound proxy using ser. Im still a
>>> newbie with this ser and  im not yet that good with the scripting.
>>> Could anyone tell me how to configure ser for outbound proxy only
>>> using rtpproxy? There are samples files in the Getting started
>>> manual but im having troubles eliminating the authentication/mysql
>>> part in script since im not yet familiar which modules depends on
>>> which. A striped down version of the nat-rtpproxy.cfg file would be
>>> really appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> _jeff
>>>
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