On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 17:31 -0600, Clint Savage wrote: > Michael, > > My failures pretty much stem from poor network tunneling. I am sure in the > perfect environment, Ekiga would meet my needs. However, because I > regularly travel and am at the mercy of hotel wireless 80% of the time, I > run into issues that way. Like I said, it attempts to work, I see a short > connection, then it fails. Ekiga detected that it would need to use STUN > which means to me that its trying to work around those troublesome firewalls > and proxies, but can't quite do it.
Ekiga should be automatically detecting things like STUN, etc. I haven't used it in a few months, but it works very well. If it's not, there's nothing anyone can really do. Also, I really doubt you'll have consistent bandwidth at random hotel wireless networks to really do video anyway. While I'm traveling, I stick to voip only. Usually SIP (with STUN NAT traversal enabled). I use project gizmo for most of that. Note that STUN (NAT hole-punching anyway) is really a nasty hack anyway. It's not guaranteed to work on all firewalls. Seems to work pretty decently for me. Skype, ekiga, and project gizmo (a sip-only soft-phone) all work with STUN quite nicely in my experience. If ekiga is having a hard time building the STUN connection, all other programs will have a hard time too. > > As far as GoogleTalk, MSN, Yahoo and others. I understand that they can > only talk to others of their same kind, but if it could work in Linux, I'd > be happy enough until something else comes along. No video support for any of those on linux. > > When I suggested Wengophone, I also implied OpenWengo. I'll try again here > though, because this last try wasn't as thorough as my foray into it last > fall. OpenWengo doesn't do video anyway. But it is open source and there is a linux download right on the page. That was the only reason I mentioned it, in response to your complaint about being unable to buy or download it for Linux. > > My webcam totally works in linux. I can see myself and (believe) I can > record it. I'll be making sure things work better this week while in > Ireland. > > I'd love to commit bug reports to Ekiga, but I think "doesn't connect" and > "Connection timeout" errors just wouldn't be enough for the developer. I'll > look into running it from source in the near future as well... No it's not enough. And it's likely not ekiga's fault either. Until the world converts to IPv6, I have a sad feeling you're going to be disappointed with all solutions on all platforms. STUN works very well in a lot of cases. But it relies on what are essentially problems (well, certain behaviors anyway) with the UDP implementation on the router. That can never be guaranteed in any way. > > Cheers, > > Clint > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
