Chapter 7: SIP Profiles with Sofia | FreeSWITCH Users Manual

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SignalWire

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https://developer.signalwire.com/freeswitch/users-and-endpoints/sip-profiles/

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2026-09-24

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SignalWire documentation site terms; no open licence stated on page; no-redistribution; short excerpts and locators only

Source notes citing this source

• FreeSWITCH ships two SIP profiles: internal on port 5060 (via internal_sip_port) for registered endpoints, and external on port 5080 (via external_sip_port) for carrier trunks. in context
• In the shipped profiles, auth-calls (digest authentication of INVITEs) is true on the internal profile and false on the external profile. in context
• The Sofia profile context parameter names the dialplan context for inbound calls on that profile; the internal profile ships with context public. in context
• SIP profile XML files live in conf/sip_profiles/, and sofia.conf.xml in autoload_configs pulls them in with an X-PRE-PROCESS include of ../sip_profiles/*.xml. in context
• The Sofia profile parameters ext-sip-ip and ext-rtp-ip set the public SIP and RTP addresses FreeSWITCH advertises behind NAT; sip-ip and rtp-ip set the local bind addresses. in context

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 24). Chapter 7: SIP Profiles with Sofia | FreeSWITCH Users Manual. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/sources/signalwire-fs-manual-sip-profiles

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-signalwire-fs-manual-sip-profiles,
  title  = {Chapter 7: SIP Profiles with Sofia | FreeSWITCH Users Manual},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/sources/signalwire-fs-manual-sip-profiles},
  note   = {SignalWire, accessed 2026-09-24}
}