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-rw-r--r-- | configs/sip.conf.sample | 16 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/configs/sip.conf.sample b/configs/sip.conf.sample index c8f732530..8fb723717 100644 --- a/configs/sip.conf.sample +++ b/configs/sip.conf.sample @@ -729,8 +729,20 @@ srvlookup=yes ; Enable DNS SRV lookups on outbound calls ; ; nat = no ; Default. Use rport if the remote side says to use it. ; nat = force_rport ; Force rport to always be on. -; nat = yes ; Force rport to always be on and perform symmetric RTP. -; nat = comedia ; Use rport if the remote side says to use it and perform symmetric RTP. +; nat = yes ; Force rport to always be on and perform comedia RTP handling. +; nat = comedia ; Use rport if the remote side says to use it and perform comedia RTP handling. +; +; 'comedia RTP handling' refers to the technique of sending RTP to the port that the +; the other endpoint's RTP arrived from, and means 'connection-oriented media'. This is +; only partially related to RFC 4145 which was referred to as COMEDIA while it was in +; draft form. This method is used to accomodate endpoints that may be located behind +; NAT devices, and as such the port number they tell Asterisk to send RTP packets to +; for their media streams is not actual port number that will be used on the nearer +; side of the NAT. +; +; In addition to these settings, Asterisk *always* uses 'symmetric RTP' mode as defined by +; RFC 4961; Asterisk will always send RTP packets from the same port number it expects +; to receive them on. ; ; The IP address used for media (audio, video, and text) in the SDP can also be overridden by using ; the media_address configuration option. This is only applicable to the general section and |