Tim Panton wrote: > On 6 Aug 2007, at 16:53, Jared Smith wrote: > > >> On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 11:42 -0400, John covici wrote: >> >>> OK, thanks -- I guess I hadn't quite figured out the purpose of >>> registration. >>> >> A device registers to Asterisk to tell Asterisk what it's current IP >> address is, so that Asterisk knows where to send calls destined for >> that >> device. That's all there is to it. >> > > For IAX it also has the side benefit of setting up path through nat > and port > mapping routers. > > > Tim Panton > > www.mexuar.net > www.westhawk.co.uk/ > > Yes, since IAX2 only uses one port, this is correct. Another thing to keep in mind is to set a low qualify value in Asterisk since some routers will tear down the connection pretty quickly. The qualify acts as a keep-alive and prevents the router from closing the port and losing the map.
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