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FreeSWITCH 1.8

By : Anthony Minessale II, Giovanni Maruzzelli
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FreeSWITCH 1.8

By: Anthony Minessale II, Giovanni Maruzzelli

Overview of this book

FreeSWITCH is an open source telephony platform designed to facilitate the creation of voice and chat-driven products, scaling from a soft-phone to a PBX and even up to an enterprise-class soft-switch. This book introduces FreeSWITCH to IT professionals who want to build their own telephony system. This book starts with a brief introduction to the latest version of FreeSWITCH. We then move on to the fundamentals and the new features added in version 1.6, showing you how to set up a basic system so you can make and receive phone calls, make calls between extensions, and utilize basic PBX functionality. Once you have a basic system in place, we’ll show you how to add more and more functionalities to it. You’ll learn to deploy the features on the system using unique techniques and tips to make it work better. Also, there are changes in the security-related components, which will affect the content in the book, so we will make that intact with the latest version. There are new support libraries introduced, such as SQLite, OpenSS, and more, which will make FreeSWITCH more efficient and add more functions to it. We’ll cover these in the new edition to make it more appealing for you.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Advanced options and settings


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 out which one is the source address. From there it does the same thing that the ACL based one does, only it may not always...