It's for setting asterisk box with SIP support behind a NAT. You need to do port redirection of eg. 5060 and then setup externip=ip_of_your_nat_gateway
Martin On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Andrew Thompson wrote: > According to the source, it goes in the general section of sip.conf: > > } else if (!strcasecmp(v->name, "externip")) { > if (!(hp = gethostbyname(v->value))) { > ast_log(LOG_WARNING, "Invalid address for externip keyword: %s\n", v->value); > } else { > memcpy(&__ourip, hp->h_addr, sizeof(__ourip)); > use_external_ip = 1; > } > > Apparently, it expects the IP address that you want to use instead of the default > (bindaddr, I guess?). > > Can someone tell me, does the second line that I quoted, with the gethostbyname > function mean that it will accept a hostname instead of just an IP? This would be > really really good for Dynamic IP users. > > Note: I'm not savy enough to figure out how often this variable is refreshed! > > This was taken from the CVS Viewer at: http://asterisk.espia-net.net/ > chan_sip.c: > http://asterisk.espia-net.net/horde/chora/co.php/asterisk/channels/chan_sip.c?login=2&r=1.204 > > ----- > Andrew Thompson > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martin Pycko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 12:34 PM > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk behind LinkSys NAT Routing > > > > It's new. It prevents asterisk from putting the private IP in the messages > > that asterisk sends with SIP. > > > > Martin > > > > On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, WipeOut wrote: > > > > > Martin Pycko wrote: > > > > > > >You can port forward the 5060 SIP port and use externip keyword in > > > >sip.conf to have it working behind a NAT. > > > > > > > >Martin > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Martin, > > > > > > Is "externip" and new parameter?? > > > > > > Does it do a similar thing for the server as what "nat=yes" does for the > > > phone? > > > > > > Later.. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > Rǫf)+-^+$Klؠrbv("oܢoj)fjb?j^+$ > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users