<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:33 PM, John Levine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnl@taugh.com" target="_blank">johnl@taugh.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
I realize that an ALG is a hack in a router that is supposed to allow<br>
SIP packets to go through a NAT router. I also realize that for<br>
modern SIP equipment, ALG usually causes more problems than it solves,<br>
and that it's described in RFCs 2663, 3424, and others.<br>
<br>
What I can't find anywhere is what a SIP ALG actually does to the<br>
packets. Is that written down anywhere, or is it just network<br>
folklore?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am unaware if there is any RFC stating exactly what a SIP ALG should do. Most likely, just like with SBCs it is a term that can mean different things to different people and there is not a "spec" to follow (although for SBCs there is RFC 5853 which has very general guide lines), but rather some general functionality that is expected from it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>From what I remember the Linux kernel for example has some SIP ALG functionality (which probably breaks more things than it fixes) which will modify the SDP to "fix" the IP addresses for the media streams, patching the IP when you're behind NAT (and using the public IP in the SDP), you can expect other routers (some incidentally based on Linux) to perform similar tricks.</div>
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