In then past I had no issues with getting NetMeeting to work when I was testing it. I had to tweak something with the Firewall, but I had it all working I belive.
James At 09:55 AM 3/24/2002 -0800, Tony Su wrote: >If Sonicwall isn't supporting H.323 over NAT as advertised, that's >actually more usual than unusual re: Vendor's claims... The only >firewall I've been able to configure this successfully are the Microsoft >firewalls. > >You may want to try opening the required ports <manually> instead of >relying on automatic configurations in case that might be an issue... >But in general H.323 over NAT will fail because of Vendor >implementation. > >Recommend at least trying the "non-multimedia" parts of NetMeeting to >see if they work, they don't use H.323... Ie. The Whiteboard, chat. I've >found they work well, in general you should have problems only with >anything related to voice or video. > >Tony > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On >Behalf Of Jason Hobbs >Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 8:14 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: 'Jeff Vogt' >Subject: RE: [SonicWALL]- netmeeting setup > > >Good luck :) > >Try using one of the other connection methods and NOT H.323 (not even >sure if NetMeeting has other protocols as an option)... Basically the >problem is that Net meeting figures out what IP your machine is at by >essentially querying the NIC, and it encapsulates that information into >the request that it sends to the remote machine. > >i.e.: Net meeting sends out a "ring" to the answering machine that says >"Yoo-hoo! Here I am on 192.168.1.2! Come get me!" > >....the remote machine can't get back to your 192.x.x.x NATted machine, >and it's very frustrating. The H323 protocol is not very NAT-friendly >(unless you have some hardware with some "application aware" NAT). I >managed to "trick" CUSeeMe into working with H323 at one point by adding >a second IP to a Windows 98 machine, specifically my WAN IP. I had to >tweak it a few times and change the orders the IPs were added in the >network configuration so that it showed up as the "#0 Ethernet adapter" >address when doing an ipconfig on the command line, but it did >eventually work... Not the best solution though... Prolly not good to >have yer WAN IP being spoofed on the LAN. :) > >...The other solution is to get some more IP addresses and use the >Sonicwall in standard mode. Then it works like a charm :) > >...It's been a while since I played with this so Sonicwall may have >changed some of the H323 support, so y'all let me know if this is >possible now... As far as I know though, H323 and NAT go together >like.... like... like stuff that doesn't go together very well. > >Jase > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On >Behalf Of Jeff Vogt >Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 6:14 PM >To: 'Sonicwall (E-mail) >Subject: [SonicWALL]- netmeeting setup > > >Hi all, > >I went to the sonicwall site to get instructions for setting up the >sonicwall to allow for netmeeting. the instructions said just to add >the 2 known services for whiteboard and videoconference services. Then >I added them in on a public lan server. I set the client up with a dhcp >reserved ip address, and rebooted the sonicwall. I am unable to >establish the netmeeting session. i know that the problem is on my end >because we have been able to establish the netmeeting session from the >remote end (that I was working with today) and my users home (no >firewall there) > >Additionally, I attempted to establish the netmeeting session using IP >adresses only. Anyone out there have any experience setting this up and >if so, any documentation that is more thorough than what is on the >sonicwall site? > >thanks for the help > >Jeff > >--- >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude/F-Prot Virus] > >=================================================================================================== >To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the email >put the following: unsubscribe sonicwall your_name >The archive of this list is at >http://www.mail-archive.com/sonicwall%40peake.com/ --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude/F-Prot Virus] =================================================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body of the email put the following: unsubscribe sonicwall your_name The archive of this list is at http://www.mail-archive.com/sonicwall%40peake.com/
