IAX Between 2 PBX ( One NAT One No NAT)

General Help
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Hi,

I have just completed the connection of 2 PBXs via IAX2 trunk. Here’s the setup:

CloudPBX is on a public IP on the internet.
PBX1 is behind a NATing device with dynamic IP (home use internet connection)

Now, I understand that the IAX trunk has 2 ends (one from PBX1=>CloudPBX, and the other is CloudPBX=>PBX1).

The thing is, CloudPBX can not connect to PBX1, the IP keeps changing.
But, PBX1 is able to connect to CloudPBX successfully.

Would the trunk work only on one leg? I mean, will I be able to make calls from both boxes if only PBX1 registers on CloudPBX? OR both ways should register?

Also, if only one leg is enough (PBX1=>CloudPBX), so how would I set the dialing string (IAX2/TRUNK_NAME/EXTENSION)? What should be in place of "TRUNK_NAME?

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Use registration on the nat side. At the cloud PBX set the host setting to dynamic.

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Thanks for the quick response. Shall I have port 4569 forwarded on the NAT side to the internal PBX? Right now there’s no port forwarding on the NAT side.

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You shouldn’t need port forwarding, but it depends on how poorly behaved your router is. Use a registration string of the format:

 username:[email protected]:port
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Thenks for the info. On the CloudPBX, I see it accepts registerstion of PBX1, and detects the public IP of PBX1.

But, it says: unreachable. Im not forearding any ports in the NATing gateway.

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Set at the cloud PBX qualify=no at the peer settings and try to call.

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Still no good. Same thing.

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The registration string is on the incoming side of the trunk config. So shall I put that on the CloudPBX incoming? Or the PBX1 incoming?

9

I put that string on the PBX1 incoming side. And still the issue exists. Still Im not doing any port forwarding.

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At the nat site do you have qualify setting in your peer details? If yes try setting to lower frequency to keep the communication open between the two sites.

https://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+iax+qualify