On Sat, Feb 23, 2019, at 12:17 PM, hw wrote:
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>
> > Any source to UDP ports X to Y (10000 to 20000 by default) allow.
>
> Are you saying that the ports specified in rtp.conf ('rtpstart' and
> 'rtpend') specify with ports asterisk uses regardless whether RTP or
> SRTP is being used? Is that why you speak of "media" (ports)?
>
> (That would have been and would answer my original question: Where to
> specify the SRTP ports?)
Yes.
> > What you can't do is limit the rule based on the source of media, except
> > for circumstances where you know for sure the source.
> >
> > Note that RTP ports in Asterisk aren't open all the time and only listen
> > when a call is using it, and they also learn the source of media - blocking
> > out other sources.
> >
>
> ok
>
> After opening the ports specified in rtp.conf, both RTP and SRTP were
> working in the test calls I made. But:
>
> How do clients know which media ports to use? Is asterisk telling them
> that?
>
> I. e., can I (basically) rely on the clients to use the media ports in
> rtp.conf, or did I just get lucky that by chance the clients happened to
> use these ports when I made the test calls?
It's exchanged as part of call setup using SDP. SDP specifies where media
should be sent, the codecs that can be used, and also controls hold/unhold.
Each side provides SDP which is parsed, interpreted, negotiated, and used.
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