----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Bagnall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 5:33 PM
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] OT: SIP aware firewalls?


> > Until now I've only used IAX2 to connect to ITSPs. I've been
> > toying with a SIP connection to Gizmo Project, but not yet
> > successfully. It brings to mind a question. At what point
> > does it make sense to consider a SIP-aware firewall such as
> > those from Ingate?
>
> You should be able to run SIP through m0n0wall quite happily - we have a
> number of client sites with SIP phones offsite which connect to the *
server
> behind a m0n0wall box. You'll need to allow 5060 (UDP) for SIP, then an
> appropriate port range (as definted in rtp.conf) for the RTP streams.
>
> You'll obviously also need to apply any QoS rules to both the SIP and RTP
> streams.
>

Totally agree. I moved from Kerio WinRoute (claims to be SIP aware > not) to
Monowall and all SIP/NAT issues went away.
It doesn't do QoS but you can do bandwith/traffic shaping which also should
work fine.

Erwin

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