[Gllug] Is this a silly idea - VOIP telephony with Asterisk?

[Matthew Thompson]

On 11 Feb 2006, at 16:05, John Winters wrote:

> The problem is that the VoIP phone adaptor wants all incoming packets
> addressed to e.g. UDP port 7016 (I forget the number, but it's a
> specified set of UDP port numbers) forwarded to itself.  Instructions
> are included for setting up your router to forward the packets
> appropriately.  AFAICT there's no other routing information, and so no
> way for a plain routing device to decide which of two boxes each
> individual packet should be sent to.

What manufacturer are the devices and what VoIP service provider? Is  
this a SIP based service?

SIP is notoriously difficult to play with on a simple port forwarding  
basis and you Asterisk plan is a good way around this - I've done  
similar myself in the past.

M at t :o)
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