What a long detailed list of todos. You certainly can't find that kind of answers in here.
> I apologize, as my first post to this list, that I ask a detailed set of > questions, but I have spend some time looking at all the docs and can't > get what I need to do completely sorted in my head. I am definitely one > who likes to UNDERSTAND what is happening rather than follow blank > recipies, so please bear with me as I try understand all the details. I > do understand about networking, NAT etc - but I am new to SIP/RTP and in > particular what I think is a double NAT problem > > > Firstly - what am I trying to achieve: > > I am in the UK and have a small home network behind a D-Link DIR-100 > Router/NAT/Firewall one of those machines, running Debian Lenny, acts as > my main server for everything (and in an earlier incarnation was the > firewall/router/nat box too - I only say this is because I had all this > working using Asterisk a year or so ago, but with this important > difference in configuration). Many of the ports on the firewall are > port forwarded to this machine. I have set Freeswitch up on this server > to act as a small voip pbx for the home - but MORE IMPORTANTLY - to > enable my daughter from her house to talk to us. At my house locally I > have a Linksys PAP2T two phone SIP box - and that is working with > Freeswitch's default configuration (I set up to be 1000 and 1001 and > used all the facilities). I will later add a Linksys SPA 3102 - > although I DO NOT intend to use its facility to bridge to the normal > phone network. > > My daughter, living in another house, also has a Nat box (unknown - its > part of her ADSL modem/router/wireless access point) and also has a > PAP2T which she will connect to the her network. This will be her phone. > > There is a family relation living in Australia who will load up a > whatever softphone that we tell him to use. I expect, but don't know, > that he will behind a NAT box too. > > Later, I have some friends in the USA that I might wish to add it too - > especially so that we can hold some teleconferences. They will have a > mixture of Windows and MACs, and I will need to recommend softphone > clients for them. > > I want to set this up as a small private voice network, so anyone can > ring anyone else. I will add fancy facilities such as conferencing and > voicemail later - I just want to get the basics working first. > > Secondly > > I installed a stun client on my home machine and ran it against > stun.freeswitch.org. > > It reported:- > > Primary: Independent Mapping, Independent Filter, preserves ports, no > hairpin > > But I have no idea what this means - I can't find any clear statement > via googling for it - how this set of answers maps to the different > types of NAT that might be required to get this to all work. CAN > SOMEONE ENLIGHTEN me please. > > Thirdly > > I have set up a sip profile called "double nat" from the recipe in the > wiki. This defines the SIP port to be 5090. > > However, what I DO NOT UNDERSTAND is how the PAP2T box in my daughters > house will initiate a connection to my server. Presumably, I have to > port forward 5090 from the nat box to my server. IS THAT CORRECT? > > I also assume I will have to tell her to use STUN (I believe this is an > option on the PAP2T) > > Fourthly > > If I understand SIP correctly, it just initiates the session and the two > end points then communicate directly via RTP. What I don't understand > is how does a session transition from SIP to RTP via the connection set > up in the the first phase (in terms of passing through the NAT boxes). > In particular WHICH OF THE TEST RESULTS from my stun client indicate it > will do the right thing. (I am going to take a laptop to my daughters > house with a stun client in to test her network this weekend). > > Could someone explain please. > > Fifthly > > Is there a recommended SIP softphone with all the right facilities (STUN > support?) that works on MAC and WINDOWS (I only use linux myself). > > Apologies for the length of this. I am eager to get the answers so I > can use an opportunity this weekend to get it working. > > > -- > Alan Chandler > http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk > > > _______________________________________________ > FreeSWITCH-users mailing list > FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org > http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users > UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users > http://www.freeswitch.org > _______________________________________________ FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org