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Esteemed Contributor III
October 24, 2023

Technical Tip: How to create SIP helper for custom ports

Description This article describes how to create a SIP helper for custom ports.
Scope FortiGate 6.x and later.
Solution

If there is a VoIP solution that needs a custom port, and it is desired to use SIP session-helper instead of the recommended SIP-ALG for these sessions, here is an example of how to do it.

 

Let's take port 6050 for this scenario:

 

config system session-helper
    edit 0
        set name sip
        set protocol 17
        set port 6050
end
 
Note: In this example, 'edit 0' uses the next available item ID automatically.
 
It is possible to follow this procedure multiple times if needed.
 
To change the ports for SIP-ALG, please follow this article:

 

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