And maybe an additional question with regards to Metaswitch's Perimeta
P-CSCF/IBCF - is there any non commercial version available (time limited,
feature limted, etc.) to have it installed and integrated with Clearwater?


Piotr Kurpiel
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On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 8:09 AM, Piotr Kurpiel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Matt, thanks for your response.
> It's clear that P-CSCF (bono) does not relay media. Anyway I still would
> see it as beneficial to have a separation of access and core signalling,
> especially that in the deployment I am doing, for now, no SBC is planned
> (might change due to media flows - if needed to go to core).
> The separation is beneficial at least from security perspective.
> I will probably work it out with iptables (forcing NAT from public to
> local) for now.
>
>
> Piotr Kurpiel
> [email protected]
> +48602206891
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Matt Williams <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Piotr,
>>
>> It's good to hear from you.
>>
>> Unfortunately, bono doesn't currently support binding to two different IP
>> addresses.
>>
>> For signaling only, it's probably not too hard to make this work.  Bono
>> is built from the "sprout" repository (
>> https://github.com/Metaswitch/sprout) and the relevant code is all in
>> the stack.cpp module (
>> https://github.com/Metaswitch/sprout/blob/dev/sprout/stack.cpp).  The
>> fill_transport_details function always gets the local address (by calling
>> pj_getaddrinfo on local_host), and we could tweak this to optionally use
>> the public address instead.
>>
>> However, presumably the scenario you're considering here is that the only
>> communication between the core and access networks is via the P-CSCF?  If
>> so, I suspect you'd also need to relay media between the two networks.
>> Bono has no support for media at all - adding that would be quite a lot
>> more effort.
>>
>> Is there a scenario in which having separate access and core networks for
>> signaling (but not for media) might be useful?  Please let me know.
>>
>> Alternatively, we've tested with Metaswitch's Perimeta P-CSCF/IBCF, which
>> includes this function both for signaling and for media.
>>
>> I hope that helps, and please let me know on the media question.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:
>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Piotr
>> Kurpiel
>> Sent: 07 April 2015 11:33
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [Clearwater] bono bound to two physical IPs
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I am trying to fit the Clearwater manual installation into an existing IP
>> design, where access side is vlan-separated from core side.
>>
>> What I need is to configure bono to bind to two separate IPs (both
>> configured and available from OS).
>>
>> The core IP is private, the access IP is already public (no NAT).
>>
>> I tried to make use of local_ip (for core) and public_ip (for access) but
>> it seems that the public_ip only works on application layer of bono, rather
>> than physically bind to that IP.
>>
>> Is there any trick to do that?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Piotr Kurpiel
>> [email protected]
>> +48602206891
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