I thought I had a handle on the firewall settings as I had just about
everything working as expected. However, after disabling hosted nat
compensation on the ITSP side (my provider gives me the option to use HNC or
not), I've since discovered that I didn't.

 

These are the ports I originally opened up:

UPD 5060, 30000 - 31000

 

These settings worked fine if HNC was enabled on the ITSP side. However,
once I disabled HNC on the ITSP side I had problems registering with the
ITSP.

 

I put the sipXecs box on the DMZ and tested with HNC disabled on the ITSP
again. After doing this, registration attempts were successful, so I figured
that I have at least one missing port forwarding rule.

 

I had asked previously about port 5080, as this is the default port listed
under the SBC. I think I was told that since the communication is initiated
and goes out through this port that the firewall will allow it to come back
in. I decided to open up this port to see if it would help and this seems to
have resolved the issue. I have not had any registration issues since
opening up this port. Here are the ports I currently have open:

UPD 5060, 5080, 30000 - 31000

 

While writing this email, I noticed a difference on the ITSP registration
info page. When HNC was enabled on the ITSP side, I noticed that the first
registration before showed up on port 5080. However, all subsequent
registrations seemed to be on a random port. Now that I've disabled HNC on
the ITSP side, it is always showing that I'm registered on port 5080. This
is what I had expected in the past, so I think I have it set up correctly
now.  Any feedback on this?

 

I also just noticed that my ITSP shows the following under my account info
for ports:

SIP: 5060 UDP RTP Range: 10001-20000 UDP

 

Although they have port 5060 listed, it appears to work just fine with 5080.
They also have a different RTP Range than the default in sipXecs (30000 -
31000). Although this doesn't seem to be an issue, I thought I better make
sure that I have everything configured correctly.

 

Finally, I have heard about a possible change that will cause sipxrelay to
do strict symmetric packet routing. I was wondering if I can get some
feedback on this. The firewall I'm testing with is very basic and there are
no options to about doing symmetric packet routing. I've done a quick google
search and am a little confused. Is this an advanced feature, or should most
basic firewalls do this?

 

Thanks,

Tim 

 

 

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