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Port Forwarding
The most common scenario is deploying the VCS in an intranet (behind a firewall). You must assign a static
private IP address to the VCS. In the meantime, do port forwarding on the firewall.
Port forwarding is an application of network address translation (NAT) that redirects a communication
request from one address and port number combination to another while the packets are traversing a
network gateway, such as a router or firewall.
To receive a public-to-private call, you must forward the following ports to the public network on your router
or firewall.
Port
Port
Static NAT/Type
H.323
1719-1720
UDP/TCP
Control and media for audio,
video, content, and data/FECC
50000-51000
TCP/UDP
Web management port (optional)
443
TCP
SIP (optional)
5060-5061
TCP/UDP
Note:
Forwarding the ports to the public network may cause security problems and you can
prevent the endpoint from being attacked by adding a blacklist.
Related tasks
Configuring NAT
You can use H.323 protocol to make private-to-public calls after you configure the port forwarding and
enable the static NAT feature. If you want to use SIP protocol to make private-to-public calls, you also need
to enable the static NAT settings for the SIP protocol.
Procedure
1.
Do one of the following:
• On your web user interface, go to
Network
>
NAT/Firewall
>
NAT Configuration
.
• On your VCS: go to
More
>
Settings
>
Network Setting
>
Wired Network
>
NAT/Firewall
>
NAT
.
For VP59, tap
>
Settings
>
Network Setting
>
Wired Network
>
NAT/Firewall
>
NAT
.
•
On your CTP20/CTP18 , tap
>
Settings
>
Network Setting
>
Host Network
>
NAT/Firewall
>
NAT
.