From: "Eric "ManxPower" Wieling" <eric@fnords.org>
To: <asterisk@voip-pbx.ca>; "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial
Discussion" <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom behind NAT won't register to * server
behind ALG
> Henry L.Coleman wrote:
>> I think what Alex was trying to say was that Polycom IP Phones are an
>> example of immature product development. While they look very nice and
>> have a nice display the product doesn't compete very well compared to
>> other manufacturers.
>> The two most obvious flaws are that they cannot be NAT'ed so they cannot
>> be used as Off Premise eXtensions phones and the other being that they
>> take so long to configure and re-boot. I have a golden rule with any
>> phone
>> that I plan on installing for a customer....If I can't get it working
>> within 20 minutes then don't use it. I'm afraid Polycom breaks my golden
>> rule.
>> With such a lot of competition in this market they should have sorted
>> this
>> out two years ago.
>>
>
> Reboots should not happen very often. This is a non-issue for most
> people.
>
> I've never seen a phone that could not work with NAT with Asterisk.
> Polycoms work just fine with NAT and Asterisk. The nice thing about
> Asterisk's NAT support is that the phone does not need to support NAT.
Eric,
Try using 5 Polycom's at a remote location behind NAT. Let me know when you
need a drink ;) . I had a client with such an issue and the "fix" was a nice
Edgemark or Sonicwall firewall that are set up for SIP and NAT issues. I
prefer the Sonicwall.
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