On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:58:41 +0100 Damien Sandras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.ekiga.org/index.php?rub=3&pos=0&faqpage=x161.html#AEN163 > "If it reports "Symmetric NAT" and that you are not using GNU/Linux, > then you are not part of the 99% of lucky users. You will have to > forward UDP ports 5000 to 5100 to your internal machine. Run the test > again, it should report "Cone NAT" or "Port Restricted NAT" and it will > work." Of course, this one was out of question because it requires the possibility of configuring the NAT. > If you can not forward ports: > http://www.ekiga.org/index.php?rub=3&pos=0&faqpage=x161.html#AEN196 > "Please make sure you have read this FAQ correctly because it should > work in all cases. The worst case is when you have to forward ports. If > you can not forward ports, or if you do not want to do it, you have > alternative solutions. For SIP, you can use SIPROXD as outbound proxy. > For H.323, please configure the GNU Gatekeeper as a proxy." If I can't configure the NAT server to forward ports, for sure I can't install siproxd there either. The point was to look from the ordinary users' perspective: it seems there is no way to use Ekiga behind a symmetric NAT that has no port forwarding and that cannot be configured by the user (the NAT server is owned by the ISP for example or something similar). So, I think it should be mentioned in the FAQ somehow that there are Internet users which just cannot use Ekiga yet. Currently the FAQ would state that for every situation there's a solution, but it does not seem like that for this kind of network connection. Or, there are of course (always) solutions but they are not implemented in Ekiga. > TURN and ICE are great, but only if you have TURN servers proxying the > RTP streams. Such servers do not exist yet, so it would not solve your > problem. Yes, I've understood that those solutions/standards are not really "there" yet, when compared eg. with STUN (which unfortunately doesn't solve the problem for all NATs). -Timo _______________________________________________ GnomeMeeting-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list
