Re: [Shorewall-users] OT SIP vs NAT (Was: How do I configure shorewall to work with VoIP SIP?)

2007-10-31 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 04:56:54PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > SIP does stuff that IAX can't - specifically, SIP was designed to > have the data and control as separate channels. That way, your > registrar/pbx/whatever you want to call it does NOT have to also pass > all the traffic. Eg, you ca

Re: [Shorewall-users] OT SIP vs NAT (Was: How do I configure shorewall to work with VoIP SIP?)

2007-10-31 Thread Simon Hobson
Kenneth Burgener wrote: >Andrew Suffield wrote: >> I subscribe only to the "NAT is awkward" school, not the "NAT is evil" >> one, but SIP's a pretty stupid protocol even without NAT. There's just >> no good excuse for the way it scatters traffic through unrelated ports >> - it would have worked