[Kamailio-Users] NAT traversal

[Alex Balashov]

The "nathelper" module documentation page really says everything there 
is to say on the subject.

BERGANZ François wrote:

> Have you an example?
> 
> 
> Cordialement,
> BERGANZ François
>  Pensez à l'Environnement, n'imprimez ce mail que si nécessaire.
> 
> 
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Alex Balashov [mailto:abalashov at evaristesys.com] 
> Envoyé : vendredi 20 février 2009 11:24
> À : Asim Riaz
> Cc : BERGANZ François; users at lists.kamailio.org
> Objet : Re: [Kamailio-Users] NAT traversal
> 
> I wouldn't use STUN.  It's an unnecessary complicated science project.
> 
> Unless the two media endpoints can't reach other, or the signaling 
> agents can't reach other due to asymmetric signaling or bad NAT devices 
> or stupidly implemented SIP ALGs or whatever, "nathelper" alone will do 
> just fine.  Just apply its fixups to your Contact URIs and SDP endpoints 
> and get perfectly good far-end NAT traversal.
> 
> I have deployed this many times for service providers and it works 
> great.   There will always be problems with some flaky end-user 
> equipment, but in general the benefits far outweigh the costs of 
> screwing around with STUN or anything of the sort.
> 


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