Re: NAT and firewalls transversal

"M. Rangnathan" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.voip.nist-sip
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Michael,

rport is a parameter in the via header. The stack can already interpret 
the rport parameter.

Hagai,

This question of NAT traversal comes up so often, can you consider doing 
a wiki "howto" page on it. Thanks.

Regards

Ranga

Hagai Sela (TA) wrote:

>What do you mean by "add "rport" parameter explicitly to the stack"?
>
>BTW, I have been there with microsoft RTC. It's a BAD UA.
>
>Hagai.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael kr [mailto:[email protected]] 
>Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 5:29 PM
>To: Hagai Sela (TA); [email protected]
>Subject: RE: [nist-sip] NAT and firewalls transversal
>
>
>Thanks Hagai,
>
>The only problem I have is that I am using Microsoft's RTC stack as the
>UA basis, which is a black box and I don't have access to the SIP
>signaling.
>
>I am considering to add "rport" parameter explicitly to the stack. Are
>you aware of any bad consequences of it?
>
>Michael
>
>
>--- "Hagai Sela (TA)" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
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>>Oops. I was wrong; you should specify "rport" in your via header and 
>>not the request URI.
>>
>>Hagai. 
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: [email protected]
>>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael kr
>>Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:07 PM
>>To: [email protected]
>>Subject: [nist-sip] NAT and firewalls transversal
>>
>>
>>Hello experts,
>>
>>In certain situation, my UA selected ports are not opened by a 
>>firewall, and the sip signaling does not get back to it.
>>
>>However: I can reach this UA by using the same port it broadcast the 
>>SIP signaling with.
>>
>>How can I reply on that port, using the stack?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Michael
>>
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