Benny Pedersen wrote:
>> Are there general guidelines around on how to configure Shorewall
>> for use with SIP phones ? Especially regarding (some?) Cisco SIP
>> phones which are expecting a reply at port 5060 while sending from an
>> arbitrary high port.
>
>for sip protocol to work there is just that shorewall must load sip 
>conntrackers, so make sure there is sip conntracker in your kernel, 
>thats all
>
>atleast it works with my linksys spa 2102

It depends a lot on your setup.
In many cases, loading SIP helper will completely screw up your connection, in 
others it's needed. A good example of where NAT == Broken.

Personally I make a point of disabling any SIP helper and configuring the 
endpoints to deal with the NAT - I find it's more reliable. A lot depends on 
the capabilities of the devices on all ends of the connections. On "sensible" 
NAT gateways, a device can use STUN to work out it's public IP and type of NAT, 
and then work reliably - don't try this witha Zyxel router as they go out of 
their way to f**k stuff up. Most public VoIP providers have NAT gateways which 
essentially ignore the content of the ISP messages and look to see where the 
RTP stream actually arrives from - and then proxy that to the final destination.

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