On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:49 AM, M. Ranganathan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bad idea #1 :
>
> Allow for other processes to grab ports in the range reserved for sipXrelay
> and deal with it on the fly. Reason: Posted already. FAIL configtest if port
> range is specified in ephemeral range.
>
> Bad idea #2:
>
> A single port to multiplex all RTP traffic. Would fail for firewalls that
> randomize source port and change source port periodically as a security
> measure. Currently sipXrelay can deal with this (it auto learns ports ).
> Thus it becomes firewall agnostic. You cannot do this with a single port
> through which you multiplex all traffic. Also increases the overhead
> slightly ( packet inspection ).
>
>

All, thanks for your feedback, especially to Ranga for the technical
details. I'll stick with updating the page and alert admin not to
overlap port range and ephemeral range

Thanks,
George
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