On Saturday 15 April 2006 21:12, jennyw wrote: > We've been reasonably happy with Polycom SoundPoint phones, but we only > have them installed on the LAN. I've read that they have problems > working across NAT. So ... I guess I have a few questions. First, is > there a way to get Polycoms to work well over NAT? If not, then are > there phones of comparable voice quality that do work well over NAT? > Without costing a lot more?
Polycoms (the IP501s at any rate) work EXCEPTIONALLY well through NAT. It's as literally dead-simple as plug-and-go. No configuration on the phone, and all you want is a nat=yes in their sip.conf entry. That's it. Seriously. Olle's Symmetric RTP code is what makes it work so well. I have two IP501s behind a factory-default WRT54G on regular consumer ADSL hitting an Asterisk box on a real IP. The WRT54 has no configuration to reflect port-forwards and the only thing Asterisk has is nat=yes for those two extensions. It Just Works. And I'm still stunned by it. :-) Olle... Thank you once again for the symmetric RTP code in Asterisk. It's a godsend. -A. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
