SIP and IAX connections behind NAT

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SIP and IAX connections behind NAT

Hi,

I have an Asterisk server connected thru a provider thru IAX.
I also have a SIP soft phone somewhere in a network connected thru a router (DHCP).

Do I have to forward traffic from my router to the asterisk server with an IAX connection to the provider?

What about if I would be connected thru SIP?

What about if I want to set up a soft phone in another network (like my mother’s house), do I have to redirect SIP traffic from the router to the computer running the soft phone?

What about if I have more than 1 soft phone in her network, the redirect think would not work for this scenario right?

Whats the best way to handle things under these scenarios?

Thanks

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No need to redirect traffic to soft phone, a SIP UA. All you really do is to add nat=yes to the corresponding entry in sip.conf, and configure the soft phone to handle NAT. Refer to voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+sip+nat