On 6 Aug 2007, at 16:53, Jared Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 11:42 -0400, John covici wrote: >> OK, thanks -- I guess I hadn't quite figured out the purpose of >> registration. > > A device registers to Asterisk to tell Asterisk what it's current IP > address is, so that Asterisk knows where to send calls destined for > that > device. That's all there is to it.
For IAX it also has the side benefit of setting up path through nat and port mapping routers. Tim Panton www.mexuar.net www.westhawk.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
