[Ekiga-list] connection, but no sound

[Damien Sandras]

Le vendredi 17 novembre 2006 à 20:09 +0100, Christoph Groth a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to call a friend with ekiga.  Both of us sit behind a
> router/firewall: Mine is configured to forward UDP ports 5000-5100 to
> my machine.  I do not know anything about my friend's firewall.
> 
> We both have accounts with at the German sip-phone-service "web.de
> freephone".  Using this service communication works.  Both of us can
> call other (traditional) phones via the web.de gateway.  Also I can
> call my friend.  I think web.de is routing all the media data, because
> when we connect via web.de we are both forced to PCMU and the service
> quality is quite bad.  Furthermore it is often necessary to try
> setting up a call many times until it actually succeeds.
> 
> That is why we tried using ekiga.net accounts.  This time we can
> reliably achieve a connection either way at the first try.  SPEEX is
> being negotiated as audio codec, however, no one can hear anything.
> 
> After receiving ACK from the other computer my machine keeps logging
> things like:
> 
> 2006/11/15 22:46:30.623   0:24.037        SIP Transport:848c368 SIP     Queueing PDU: 1 ACK sip:cwg at 86.83.156.104:5065;transport=udp
> 2006/11/15 22:46:30.623   0:24.037        SIP Transport:848c368 SIP     Waiting for PDU on udp$213.186.62.145:5060<if=udp$192.168.1.80:5065>
> 2006/11/15 22:46:30.623   0:24.037          SIP Handler:84acae0 SIP     Handling PDU 1 ACK sip:cwg at 86.83.156.104:5065;transport=udp
> 2006/11/15 22:46:30.623   0:24.038          SIP Handler:84acae0 SIP     ACK received: ConnectedPhase
> 2006/11/15 22:46:30.624   0:24.038          SIP Handler:84acae0 GMSIPEndpoint    SIP connection established
> 2006/11/15 22:46:30.634   0:24.048          SIP Handler:84acae0 RTP     Found existing session 1
> 2006/11/15 22:46:30.634   0:24.048          SIP Handler:84acae0 RTP     Found existing session 2
> 2006/11/15 22:46:30.634   0:24.048          SIP Handler:84acae0 GMManager        Will establish the connection
> 2006/11/15 22:46:30.634   0:24.048          SIP Handler:84acae0 OpalMan OnEstablished Call[1]-EP<sip>[e6f8f96b-6073-db11-95ca-0003c909570f at spheniscus]
> 2006/11/15 22:46:30.634   0:24.048          SIP Handler:84acae0 Call    OnEstablished Call[1]-EP<sip>[e6f8f96b-6073-db11-95ca-0003c909570f at spheniscus]
> 2006/11/15 22:46:30.637   0:24.051          SIP Handler:84acae0 OpalCon Media stream threads started.
> 2006/11/15 22:46:30.637   0:24.051          SIP Handler:84acae0 SIP     Awaiting next PDU.
> 2006/11/15 22:46:30.688   0:24.103          Media Patch:8396180 Silence Threshold increased to: 7
> 2006/11/15 22:46:31.008   0:24.423          Media Patch:8396180 Silence Threshold increased to: 8
> 2006/11/15 22:46:31.328   0:24.742          Media Patch:8396180 Silence Threshold increased to: 9
> 2006/11/15 22:46:31.637   0:25.051                  Housekeeper RTP     Found existing session 1
> 2006/11/15 22:46:31.637   0:25.051                  Housekeeper RTP     Found existing session 2
> 2006/11/15 22:46:31.648   0:25.062          Media Patch:8396180 Silence Threshold increased to: 10
> 2006/11/15 22:46:31.968   0:25.382          Media Patch:8396180 Silence Threshold increased to: 11
> 2006/11/15 22:46:32.288   0:25.702          Media Patch:8396180 Silence Threshold increased to: 12
> 2006/11/15 22:46:32.349   0:25.763          Media Patch:8396180 RTP     Transmit statistics:  packets=101 octets=5252 avgTime=20 maxTime=40 minTime=16
> 2006/11/15 22:46:32.608   0:26.022          Media Patch:8396180 Silence Threshold increased to: 13
> 
> I wonder if someone has an idea how to solve this problem?  I
> especially wonder why RTP works with the web.de service but not with
> ekiga.net.
> 

Please post a full output.

Again, I would say that for some obscure reason your router is not
relaying the media.
-- 
Damien Sandras

Ekiga Softphone : http://www.ekiga.org
NOVACOM                    : http://www.novacom.be
FOSDEM                      : http://www.fosdem.org
SIP Phone               : sip:dsandras at ekiga.net