From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 2 13:41:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4564F16A407 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2006 13:41:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe@joeholden.co.uk) Received: from claire.ber.rewt.org.uk (claire.ber.rewt.org.uk [217.160.200.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D4D843CA6 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 2006 13:41:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe@joeholden.co.uk) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by claire.ber.rewt.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30EA05C84; Sat, 2 Dec 2006 13:41:30 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at claire.ber.rewt.org.uk Received: from claire.ber.rewt.org.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (claire.ber.rewt.org.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id oatgbOx7x1zk; Sat, 2 Dec 2006 13:41:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [195.28.169.201] (unknown [195.28.169.201]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by claire.ber.rewt.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D7655C7B; Sat, 2 Dec 2006 13:41:26 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <45718284.10503@joeholden.co.uk> Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 13:41:24 +0000 From: Joe Holden User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marwan Sultan References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VoIP behind NAT and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: joe@joeholden.co.uk List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 13:41:32 -0000 Marwan Sultan wrote: > Hello All, > > Well, maybe the subject says all, > Im running 6.1R acting as NAT, gateway ofcourse, hotspot. > I have many clients trying to use Vonage, motorola, VoIP devices and > and few more products. > > The problem is as its described in some websites.. > They can call, receive a call, hear the dailtone but no one can hear > the other party. > > After researching i found out there is a problem iusing FreeBSD NAT > with voip protocols. > > i have been advised to use STUN servers, (Simple Traversal of UDP > through NATs.) > I found out there is net/stund port and its installed successufly! > but still lost. > > Can someone kindly and please shade a light on howto > make voip behind NAT works in my FreeBSD ? im in trouble because of this. > > Thank you. > Marwan Sultan, > This isn't FreeBSD NAT specific, its a problem with NAT in general, if you've installed the stund port, all you need todo is run: stund -h 1.2.3.4 -a 1.2.3.4, replacing 1.2.3.4 with the machines ip obviously, and then tell the voip phones to use that stun server. HTH, Joe