Kevin, Is there a chance you have connectivity issues that are only surfacing with UDP traffic? If you are dropping packets on your network, it is likely it could go unnoticed with TCP -- since TCP will resend --, however when trying to use a UDP service, it would be very evident.
I had an issue plague me with streaming video that was causes by a bad network cable, and then again with a failing router. It wasn't until I introduced a UDP service that I noticed issues. -Tres On Jun 24, 2013 3:28 PM, "Kevin Justie" <[email protected]> wrote: > Answer to your questions are below, but some additional interesting > results from today's teasting: > > -- Changing all three users to be local admins on their machines > (previously only one was) had no effect on those situations where one user > could not initiate chats with another. This was done Friday, and even > though local admins were turned back off Friday, all three PCs are now > (Monday) able to initiate chats with each other (previously, the laptop > could not initiate with the desktops). Gone through multiple restarts of > the PCs and it still works; no idea what happened between Friday and this > morning that made it work. Macs are still unable to initiate with > desktops, however. > > -- Turning the Windows firewall off did not help with the Mac issue. > > -- I ignored this the one time it happened last week, thinking that I > just mis-remembered the sequence of events leading up to it so it wasn't > actually an accurate test of a Mac-initiated chat, but now it's happened > twice today, too: I've been able to initiate a chat -- once, and only once > -- with each of the desktops from a 10.8 Mac -- one of the scenarios that > was not working last week. It works once, but then I'm unable to make it > work again, despite trying after logouts, restarts, Pidgin/iChat restarts, > or any other conceivable sequence of events. The times it worked were > outside of any other external changes (local admin, firewall, etc.), but it > definitely happened. > > -- I am occasionally seeing messages on the PCs about user names > changing: when user A has a chat window sitting open with user B, after > several minutes of inactivity user A gets a message that user B is "now > know as…" Can't say this has always been the case, but on the ones I've > noticed today the name is changing from the user's first name to their > first and last name: "Blanche@admin-1 is now known as Blanche Miyamoto @ > admin1." This didn't appear to have any impact on whether either PC could > chat with the other (it was working both ways by the time I noticed the > names changing), but…. > > -- …I saw something similar to this name changing on the Mac side, and > there it did affect ability to initiate a chat. On two occasions earlier > this morning -- and again, I'm unable to duplicate it now, but I monitored > it closely enough the second time to know it happened -- when I first > opened Pidgin on one of the desktops while logged in as a (real) local > admin (i.e. not the regular user set to local admin), it showed up as > "administrator" in iChat on my Mac -- and I *was* able to initiate a chat > from my Mac; this particular scenario had never worked previously. But if > I closed and re-opened Pidgin, the name on the Mac changed to "admin > person" and I was then *unable* to initiate from my Mac -- an no matter > what I tried, the name never changed back to "administrator," and I was > again unable to initiate a chat from the Mac. > > -- On my Mac, when I try to initiate a chat with one of the desktop > users, I get the message "The instant messaging connection failed. The > other person's computer may be unreachable," as soon as I type the first > character of the message; it then appears again after I have finished the > message and press Return to send. This is despite the fact that the user > is in my buddy list with an "available" status, and that the status changes > when I change it on the PC, and that if I quit Pidgin, iChat tells me the > user is "now offline" (in the message window, where the "…connection > failed…" messages appear, not in my buddy list). Similarly, Pidgin > accurately and immediately reflects changes in my iChat status on my Mac. > So, there's definitely a "live" connection between Mac and desktop, at > some level. But it does seem peculiar that it somehow knows, as soon as I > start typing, that there's a problem; I don't understand that. > > -- Not sure if I've mentioned this before or not, but I am unable to > initiate chats from Mac to desktops regardless of whether the desktops are > logged into a regular AD user account, or to the local admin account. > > I mention all of these only in the hopes that one may be an obvious signal > of the root cause of the one remaining problem, initiating chats from Mac > to Pidgin on the two desktops. > > kevin > > > On Jun 23, 2013, at 12:17 AM, David Balažic <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Have you tried to turn off the firewall on the desktop PCs that are > having problems? > > Or even on the laptop? > > no change > > > What firewall are you using? Note that some 3rd party firewalls block > some network traffic even when "turned off". > > If you mean on the PCs, just the regular Windows firewall. On the network > it's Forefront TMG, but again, all PCs are inside the firewall, so that > shouldn't be an issue. > > > > It might also help to know which ports are used by each PC. > > the netstat command gives that information. > > I assume the ports are the numbers displayed after the IPs in netstat? > They change (PC and Mac) each time Pidgin is started, so nothing could be > done to open firewall for them (and turning firewall off didn't help > anyway). > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: > http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support >
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