Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-05-27 09:05, Per Jessen wrote:
James Knott wrote:
If they're behind NAT, they need some means to tell the other end what their real address is. STUN does that. It also wouldn't be necessary if NAT wasn't in the way.
Yep, like I said you make it out to be a big deal. The STUN server took about 5mins to set up and it runs and runs and runs. The telephone is configured to enable STUN when it's provisioned. NAT is a fact of life, likely will be for quite some time to come. When everyone has public addresses, we can stop the STUN server, woohoo.
Well, it is a blocker if /I/ want to play with asterisk at home.
Assuming "at home" = on a private address, behind a router with NAT. Assuming "to play" = make and receive VoIP calls with SIP. You can run asterisk just as you can run a webserver, a mailserver, a VPN or a NAS at home, on your dynamic address. You will need a dynamic DNS service, but that's not a problem. You will need some port forwarding, also not a problem. For your external SIP clients, you could run a STUN server, also not a problem, or you could ask them to enable keep-alive. It's entirely doable, Carlos. That you're on a network behind a NAT router does make it more difficult, but only slightly. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (22.0°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org