Intertex Data AB, Sweden Talking NATs & Firewalls Prepared for:Voice On the Net, Spring 2002 By: Karl Erik Ståhl President Intertex Data AB Chairman Ingate Systems AB © 2002 Intertex Data AB Moderator Scott Wharton 1

© 2002 Intertex Data AB Moderator Scott Wharton 2 VoIP as we have seen it… Internet PC Wanna talk to me? Do we want the PC as a phone? Gateway Internet Gateway STO LA Are cheaper phone bills all we want?

© 2002 Intertex Data AB Moderator Scott Wharton 3 VoIP as we have seen it… VoIP between branch offices Gateway PSTN Europe IP Internet VPN US Gateway IP - But NOT globally to others!

© 2002 Intertex Data AB Moderator Scott Wharton 4 Hmm, didn’t we pass this stage… Paper was a very compatible media - So is POTS today… But we need to move beyond! PSTN emai l printer fax Organization 1 system 1 emai l Organization 2 system 2 fax

IAP Firewall/NAT problems! IP Phone SIP Server PSTN SIP /PSTN Gateway Internet Home LAN Business LAN DSL Cable MTU VoIP and SIP Services Out to the Edge Operator network with NAT NAT Firewall NAT XP PIM Status until now: SIP is the Protocol for IP Communication Person-to-Person, BUT IT DOES NOT REACH THE EDGE!

© 2002 Intertex Data AB Moderator Scott Wharton 6 SIP Firewall Problems Firewall Problems: Sessions initiated from outside the firewall - OK, open port 5060, but… Media streams on dynamically allocated port numbers - Ooops…  ! Even with public IP addresses inside

© 2002 Intertex Data AB Moderator Scott Wharton 7 SIP NAT/PAT Problems NAT & PAT Problems: Where is the device? - Registration/location function Private IP addresses and ports in SIP messages - Rewrite with globally routable addresses IP address and port of media stream has to be modified - NAT engine has to be dynamically controlled Worse with private IP addresses inside

© 2002 Intertex Data AB Moderator Scott Wharton 8 Suggested Solutions Dynamically controlled Firewall/NATs [Aravox, …] Midcom: By Firewall Control Proxy [Dynamicsoft…] uPnP: By the client (Windows) [Microsoft] SIP aware Firewall/NATs (SIP Proxy + Registrar) [Intertex (SOHO), Ingate (enterprise), …] SIP aware Firewall/NATs (SIP ALG) [Cisco,…: client location?, TLS not possible] Modifying the SIP protocol, Drafts in progress: draft-rosenberg-sipping-nat-scenarios-00.txt draft-rosenberg-midcom-stun-01.txt draft-ietf-sip-nat-01.txt

© 2002 Intertex Data AB Moderator Scott Wharton 9 Adding SIP Support to a Firewall Important components: Dynamic Firewall Engine SIP Proxy Server, controlling the firewall SIP Registrar, user location information Communication between SIP Proxy and firewall SIP Proxy Firewall & NAT Firewall Control Protocol User Location

© 2002 Intertex Data AB Moderator Scott Wharton 10 NAT Friendly SIP Draft Mods to SIP, SDP SIGNALLING  Route new signalling through this open path  For some NATs, if both parties are behind firewalls, RTP streams must bounce through a server LAN RTP IP Phone Firewall NAT RTP Proxy NAT IP Phone LAN SIP Registrar INTERNET  Use STUN to find out “looks” from outside STUN Server  Keep registrar NAT path (TCP or UDP) always open by frequent registrations  RTP media streams always start from inside + symmetric RTP SIP clients need upgrade New servers on the net

Firewall/NAT problems! Firewall/NAT SIP transparency! IP Phone SIP Server PSTN SIP /PSTN Gateway Operator network with NAT Internet Home LAN NAT Firewall NAT Business LAN DSL Cable MTU DMZ inGate SIParator SIP Enabling the Private Networks inGate Firewall IP Phone IX66 IAP

IP Communications Using IP Networks Intranet IP VPN with IP communications Domestic and global IP communications PBX and PSTN – E.164 resolution Customer Premises PBX PSTN Phone Managed Services Router Vmail OSS SIP Phone WorldCom PSTN Dialing Plans Network GWY Conf PSTN Phone IM IN Enterprise Gateway SIP Routing Firewall SIP Server IP VPN Global IP Comm Intranet IP Comm …other… Many call routing options: Private/Public IP address DNS and DNS SRV records SIP aware NAT/PAT servers Henry Sinnreich 4/10/2002 WorldCom Public IP Network

IP Communications Using IP Networks PBX PSTN Phone Managed Services Router Vmail OSS SIP Phone WorldCom PSTN Dialing Plans Network GWY Conf PSTN Phone IM IN Enterprise Gateway SIP Routing Firewall SIP Server IP VPN Global IP Comm Intranet IP Comm …other… Integration with existing phones SIP Capable Firewall Ingate and Intertex First through SIT Customer Premises No IP PBX Needed! Enhanced Functionality Enterprise LAN WorldCom Public IP Network

© 2002 Intertex Data AB Moderator Scott Wharton 14 Product Examples – Ingate Systems AB A Complete Firewall An add-on to an Existing Firewall DMZ Existing Firewall  Firewall & NAT/PAT  SIP Proxy  SIP Registrar Enterprise Products Firewall 1400SIParator 40

© 2002 Intertex Data AB Moderator Scott Wharton 15 Product Examples – Intertex Data AB IX66 Internet Gate with or without ADSL modem built-in OEM as: Telia SurfinBird Gate PowerBit SafeGate Review at: SOHO Products

© 2002 Intertex Data AB Moderator Scott Wharton 16 See Intertex and inGate! SIP Capable Firewalls! Ingate Systems AB Box 10013, Slakthusplan 4 SE Stockholm, Sweden CEO Olle Westerberg Tel Booth #400 Intertex Data AB Rissneleden 45 SE Sundbyberg, Sweden President Karl Erik Ståhl Tel