Analog Telephone Adapter usage
Thufir
hawat.thufir at gmail.com
Fri Nov 3 19:25:11 UTC 2006
On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:20:25 -0500, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
[...]
> That is the whole reason for STUN AFAIK. It uses a STUN server on the
> outside of the firewall to negotiate a path back to two peers that are
> behind a NAT firewall using the inherent NAT inner workings so that
> the peers can talk to each other directly.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUN
> All SIP providers and clients that I have experience with use this
> method for accepting calls through a NAT withtou having to administer
> the NAT firewall. GTalk (jingle/jabber based) also uses this method.
>
> /Mike
Thanks for making the wikipedia entry easier to digest :)
I don't mind buying the hardware and monkeying around with it to get
things to work, but I don't want to waste my time. Can I somehow simulate
STUN? Some sort of advanced ping?
thanks,
Thufir
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