Re: 1.31 released

Energy X <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.m0n0wall
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Will that help the incoming port mapping as well? And do I just use the IP
of the Grandstream in the Outbound rule, or do I need to specify the entire
internal subnet?

Thanks
Chris

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:13 AM, mtnbkr <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 04/08/10 20:53, Energy X wrote:
> > I'm not sure what the exact problem was with 1.23, but I am now seeing an
> > issue with 1.31 and SIP/RTP. I have the Grandstream HT-502
> > ATA(192.168.50.112) behind m0n0wall with the following firewall/NAT
> > settings, per my provider:
> >
> > NAT Rule:
> > WAN       UDP       5004 - 65000       192.168.50.112       5004 - 65000
> >      VOIP UDP
> >
> > Firewall Rule:
> > UDP       *       *       192.168.50.112       *       NAT VOIP UDP
> >
> > The problem is that m0n0wall seems to assign random ports to the incoming
> > connections, and occasionally it will assign a port below 5004, which is
> > outside the NAT port range. A connection will come in on 5060 and
> m0n0wall
> > will use something like 2663 and the firewall blocks it since there is no
> > incoming NAT on that port for any internal addresses. Is there a way to
> > disable the random port translation? I would think m0n0wall would know it
> > set the port below the NAT rule and allow it through since the original
> > incoming request came in on an allowed port. Also, the connection being
> > blocked in the firewall log shows the original incoming port (usually
> 5060)
> > and the translated port (below 5004) with the WAN interface address and
> > deny.
>
>
> Hi Energy X
>
> On the NAT Page, Outbound Tab, you need to first Check the "Enable advanced
> outbound NAT" box and then manually create your outbound mappings.
>
> When creating the outbount NAT mapping for the subnet your Grandstream
> HT-502
> is on you need to make sure that you CHECK the box next to "Disable port
> mapping"
>
> That option is described on that page as follows:
>
> --[snip]--
> This option disables remapping of the source port number for outbound
> packets.
> This may help with software that insists on the source ports being left
> unchanged when applying NAT (such as some IPsec VPN gateways). However,
> with
> this option enabled, two clients behind NAT cannot communicate with the
> same
> server at the same time using the same source ports.
> --[snip]--
>
>
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> Bill Arlofski
> Reverse Polarity, LLC
> http://www.revpol.com/
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