On Aug 3, 2004, at 11:04 AM, Aaron Caudle wrote:
Background:
I installed a VoIP phone down in Haiti last October and was successfull in getting it running. It connects back to a gateway in Asheville at the company I work for. Its connected by a Huges Satellite connection (DirecPC). The satellite has a built in gateway that does simple NAT, but is unable to do any port forwarding etc. Soon after I left, they begin experiencing problems, starting with only one way communications - they could hear, but we could not hear them, to then being unable to connect at all.
I was a DirecPC sufferer for three years, so mebbe I can help.
What do you mean when you say "gateway"? I assume this is the later version of DirecPC (3.0 I think they called it). White dish versus gray, and two-way transmission versus satellite return.
When I used DirecPC, you had to have a Windows box running the DirecPC software. In other words, the satellite had coax that ran to the "modem", and the "modem" connected to the Windows box via USB.
Now - Windows "Internet connection sharing" and DirecPC seemed to work fine - for Windows systems. The moment you put a non-Windows box into the mix (I was running multiple Linux boxen, a Solaris box and a Mac) you could get some connectivity as long as it was short (a ping, a DNS lookup), but the moment you tried to download anything of size (and by "size" I mean 100K) it would stall and timeout.
I ended up buying Deerfield's windows gateway software that allowed me to proxy everything through the Windows box. That worked. But for the non-standard protocols (outside of FTP and HTTP for example) I had to set up a SOCKS proxy or else the connection would just stop working. PITA, but I had no other option.
So, let me know how you are connecting to the DirecPC network, and mebbe we can figure this out.
-T
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