Get your voip service provider to tell you what ports they need, then just forward those. You shouldn't have to guess at this. This is a question they probably answer frequently. Andor Demarteau writes: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Christian Schoepplein wrote: > > Yes, thats right. I decided, to use asterisk, it seems that this is > > exactly what I need. I tryed linphone before, but without success > > because the programm had problems with my firewall setup. The > > configuration of asterisk is really a big torture, I'm searching arround > > the internet and through the docu since friday :-(. Now I subscribed to > > the asterisk-users mailinglist, but if anybody here can give my some > > hints how to get asterisk to work just for ip telephony (getting calls > > from the internet to my pc behind a nat firewall and vice versa), I > > would be verry happy! > first of all, NAT-triversal depends greatly on which VoIP protocol you are > using. > Astiersk' native IAX2 does veryw ell in this case, SIP will probably work > too. > > It also depends on the otehr site (the VoIP provider). > > http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk general docs > http://www.automated.it/guidetoasterisk.htm some general notes and > config-stuff for www.freeworlddialup.com > > Don't be too overwelmed as Asterisk can do too much for what you need :) > look at exten.conf and trhough everything out you don't need. > > only thing you need is probably a line saying dial,console (and the > appropriate alsao ro oss config) > and lines to dialout to yoru VoIP-provider (and vociemail if you are > feeling up to it :) ). > > > > > -- > Andor Demarteau E-mail: andor@xxxxxxxxxxxx > student computer science www: http://www.nl.linux.org/~andor > UU based & VU guest-student jabber,icq,msn,voip: do ask ;) > ----------- > chairman Stichting Studiereizen Storm 2002-2004 > vice-chairman USF Studentenbelangen executive committee 2002-2003 > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list