
and video packets) are transferred over dynamically assigned User
Datagram Protocol (UDP) ports that are generally closed. Another
problem is that the SIP clients inside the firewall cannot be reached
by IP addresses because these most often are private and local to the
LAN. It simply does not work, unless there is specific SIP support in
the firewall.
The same applies to routers that are switching the address space,
NATs. NAT routers are used when several users share a common
Internet connection with a single IP address. There are also operators
only offering private IP addresses to their customers.
15.6 Firewall traversal/SIP NAT
It is, of course, a ...