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Problem with a VoIP phone behind NAT – disabling FortiGate SIP ALG

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Initial state and observed problems

Observed problems

We had observed a problem, where a SIP phone is registering, but the AOR record indicates, that as a Contact IP address the incorrect and strange private IP address is used. As is shown on following listing:

voip*CLI> pjsip show aor 1765
   Aor:  <Aor..............................................>  <MaxContact>
     Contact:     
   Aor:  1765                                                 1 Contact:  1765/sip:1765@10.16.42.46:65476              f123d14d1c NonQual         nan
 ParameterName        : ParameterValue
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  authenticate_qualify : false
  contact              : sip:1765@10.16.42.46:65476
  default_expiration   : 7200
  mailboxes            :
  max_contacts         : 1
  maximum_expiration   : 7200
  minimum_expiration   : 60
  outbound_proxy       :
  qualify_frequency    : 0
  qualify_timeout      : 3.000000
  remove_existing      : true
  support_path         : false
  voicemail_extension  :

This cause a problem, where incoming phone calls (call on 1765 number) are not reaching the SIP phone. We had tried to solve the situations on the phone only modifying its NAT configuration and using STUN, but with no success. Then we setup the lab with two Cisco NAT to simulate the topo. It works perfectly. This indicate on a problem with the Fortigate firewall. Several posts indicates that it could be the SIP ALG problem, which is on Fortigate devices turned on by default and it modifies SIP messages.

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Asterisk 1.8 instalation and configuration with ODBC and DAHDI modules on Debian (lenny)

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This guide describes installation of Asterisk 1.8.4 with ODBC module for MySQL support and DAHDI module for timer clock support. The timer clock is needed by some applications such as MeetMe which provides conferences.
First of all, we make sure that the packages are up to date:
apt-get update
Then we install MySQL server and client libraries:
apt-get install mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev
We install ODBC as the database interface and also the ODBC libraries:




		

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