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is STUN a global setting? #189

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
cant find STUN in the account settings - only in the general settings.

one of my providers uses STUN, the other one not - what if i have 2 providers 
with different STUN-Server?

same with the UDP-Port - can i always use the same port for different providers?

Maybe you want to have a look at a windows sip-programm: 
http://www.phonerlite.de/
it is very easy to configure

Original issue reported on code.google.com by baumi1...@gmail.com on 2 Sep 2010 at 6:25

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
STUN feature is not related to your sip provider.
Many sip providers provides on the same server a registrar and a stun server. 
But in fact that's two different features !
Even better, you can use a stun server from one provider to resolve your public 
ip for any account. (you should probably read that : 
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Traversal_of_UDP_through_NATs as a starting 
point to understand why stun is not related to an account).

Besides, for now csipsimple only support 1 stun server, but that's just a user 
interface limitation since the sip stack on which we rely support multiple stun 
server. Anyway, when we will support many stun server, for all your account, 
the first stun server will be asked, if he don't respond then the second stun 
server will be tried etc. So, that definitely not linked to the account and 
once one stun server resolve you, all the sip stack will share your public ip 
information between all accounts.

For you UDP port issue, you are probably confusing between the local bind 
transport port (the one available on the general settings) and the remote 
registrar server port, that can be configured using the expert wizard (that 
make sense since most providers listen to 5060).

So if you are just a mainstream user, 
 * use Basic account creation (or the wizard of your provider - in the feature I hope that we will have a bigger list). 
 * You can then configure STUN (if the provider wizard has not already done that for you... for now no wizard take it in charge but should be done in the future). To do so, you use the general settings since this is a feature that can be shared by all your accounts.

If you want some extra stuff to configure your account then you can use the 
expert account, but you must know what mean each field.

For now I concede that the settings interface is a little bit confusing since I 
mix settings for expert and settings for mainstream users. But I'll rework that 
part soon (remember that's still an alpha ;) )

Original comment by r3gis...@gmail.com on 2 Sep 2010 at 7:46