Hi Marius,

first, let me honor your bravery to use double NATed environments! ;-)
second, I guss that 192.168.20.4 is your local voice client!?

I guess you problem comes from the SDP (Session Description Protocol) 
used by SIP to set up the RTP communication beween the both endpoints.
Let's have a view on the communication that happens between the peers 
for the call setup.
Lets assume the softphone starts the call and sends an INVITE to the 
Proxy (PBX). The softphone will use your public IP to send the INVITE (I 
guess you have set your public IP as the Proxy address for the 
softphone!?). In the SIP INVITE message there comes a SDP message to 
describe the session. It informs the remote end about the media which 
the client can support and at which IP address / port combination the 
incoming media (incoming for the softphone) has to arrive. No were at 
the problem. With the nat=yes switch you tell the pbx software to use 
the source address of the IP header of the SIP packet to respond to. In 
the SDP the media port is of course still the internal IP address of the 
softphone. So pbx will send the stream to this port- but with less success.

The reason why you can hear the remote end is, because the pbx is aware 
of it's own external IP, so that it can place it instead of the internal 
one into the transmitted SIP and SDP packets - so the remote end is 
capable to respont to the correct IP address and you get audio.

To solve this issue you have more possibilitys:
1. if you would be a custumer I would suggest to buy a Router (like a 
Cisco 87x) that could translate the internal IPs to external IPs as well 
in SIP as in SDP (in my opinion is the second best solution after 
globaly introducing IPv6 to solve all NAT issues ;-) )
2. you could try to use STUN - I can imagine this could deal well with 
your problem, but because of the Ciscos and other application level 
gateways for SIP I'm not very experienced with STUN

At this time there is no spontanous idea about a third way to solve the 
problem...

Maybe this helps you solving the problem...

If you found an other solution please let us know!

Best Regards,
Werner

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen
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Werner Rades
BCA-Services Ltd.
IT-Department

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Marius Flage wrote:
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> I've been trying to figure out this problem for the last couple of days,
> but to no avail. My last resort being you guys.
>
> For my setup I'm using double NAT, that is, my OpenPBX server is running
> on my local network on a reserved ip 192.168.20.2. At my home router I
> have forwarded 5060/udp and the port range defined by rtp.conf
> (10000-19999/udp). All good.
>
> In sip.conf I've set nat=yes and canreinvite=no globally, so I will
> assume every peer is behind nat, and I want all rtp traffic to go
> through my server. In addition to that I've got
> localnet=192.168.20.0/255.255.255.0 and externhost set to my public ip.
>
> At the remote end I've got a NAT-ed setup with local ips in the range of
> 192.168.100.0/24. At the peer I'm using X-lite to test my setup.
>
> I can dial just fine, so the sip handshaking works. The problems comes
> when trying to send audio. I can receive audio from the remote end, but
> the remote end doesn't receive anything. When debugging this by using
> rtp debug, I got the following interesting output:
>
> Got RTP packet from <public address of remote peer>:45722 (type 8, seq
> 5620, ts 512440, len 160)
> Sent RTP packet to 192.168.20.4:10000 (type 8, seq 37874, ts 512440, len
> 160)
> Got RTP packet from 192.168.20.4:10000 (type 8, seq 3118, ts 587920, len
> 160)
> Sent RTP packet to 192.168.100.11:45722 (type 8, seq 3900, ts 587920,
> len 160)
>
> The fourth line being the interesting one and the one breaking
> everything. My server stupidly tries to send RTP data to 192.168.100.11
> (which is the local ip for the remote peer) instead of using the public
> ip of the peer. Why does it do that? And what can I do to resolve this
> issue once and for all?
>
> Great thanks in advance,
>
> Marius
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