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FreeSWITCH 1.8

You're reading from   FreeSWITCH 1.8 Get to grips with VoIP and WebRTC communication and quickly build robust telephony systems with FreeSWITCH

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785889134
Length 434 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anthony Minessale II Anthony Minessale II
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Giovanni Maruzzelli Giovanni Maruzzelli
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Preface 1. Architecture of FreeSWITCH FREE CHAPTER 2. Building and Installation 3. Test Driving the Example Configuration 4. User Directory, SIP, and Verto 5. WebRTC, SIP, and Verto 6. XML Dialplan 7. Phrase Macros and XML IVRs 8. Lua FreeSWITCH Scripting 9. Dialplan in Deep 10. Dialplan, Directory, and ALL via XML_CURL and Scripts 11. ESL - FreeSWITCH Controlled by Events 12. HTTAPI - FreeSWITCH Asks Webserver Next Action 13. Conferencing and WebRTC Video-Conferencing 14. Handling NAT 15. VoIP Security 16. Troubleshooting, Asking for Help, and Reporting Bugs

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Now that we kind of understand how it works, we can look at other ways to trigger the NAT detection. In some cases, the ACL is not enough because maybe a sneaky ALG has messed up the packet or maybe the traffic is passing over a proxy or the phone may think it's handling the NAT case itself but it's not doing it quite right.

We have another option that is not enabled by default because it laughs in the face of the fourth pitfall and basically thinks almost anything slightly out of the ordinary is NAT. This parameter is dangerous but effective in cases where you have no other choice. The name of the parameter is aggressive-nat-detection and setting it to true in your SIP profile will enable it for all traffic. Basically it looks at the SIP packets and if it sees a variety of IP addresses in various headers, it uses logical deduction to figure...

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