It's not for phones, it's for asterisk behind a NAT. Martin
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Robert L Mathews wrote: > At 11/3/03 10:00 AM, Martin Pycko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Is "externip" and new parameter?? > > > >It's new. It prevents asterisk from putting the private IP in the messages > >that asterisk sends with SIP. > > Does it take an IP address, like "externip=1.2.3.4"? And does it then > force the SIP messages for that channel to use the "externip" value > instead of the server's local IP address? > > If so, that's useful; it will help people who know in advance that a > certain phone is on one side of a NAT or the other. > > However, it would be nicer still if it could "fix" the SIP messages only > when necessary, using a subnet mask or STUN, as has been proposed. > > The reason is that hard-coding an IP address to use when communicating > with a certain client means you can't have a phone in an office (on the > same side of the NAT as Asterisk) during the day, then take the phone > home at night (on the other side of the NAT) and have it work without > changing sip.conf. > > -- > Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies http://www.tigertech.net/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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