Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Gatekeeper rejecting calls due to excessive bandwidth request

[Alan Sill <Alan Sill ttu edu>]

On Apr 3, 2005, at 11:00 AM, Damien Sandras wrote:

> > When I turn on debug I always see a request of "bandWidth =
> > 100000". This is unchanged regardless of whether I reduce the bandwith
> > in preferences (Video Codecs) or even if video transmission is 
> > disabled.
> > Is this expected and is there any way to get the system to request a
> > smaller bandwidth?
>
> Indeed, GnomeMeeting doesn't permit to change the bandwidth requested 
> to
> the gatekeeper, it is using the default value of openh323 which is 100
> 000.
>
> You can change that by adding "SetInitialBandwidth (your_value)" in the
> Init method of the class defined in endpoint.cpp, in GnomeMeeting and
> recompile.

Hmm.  This does not seem reasonable to me.  Why have a setting for 
maximum bandwidth if that is not going to be communicated to the 
gatekeeper?

At the minimum, let me suggest that there be a checkbox in the 
preferences that says "use on registration" that would allow the user 
to specify whether the max bandwidth request should be communicated to 
the gatekeeper on registration.  This explains why we are able to use 
GM with the above system, but ONLY if we do not register with the 
gatekeeper and instead specify things in the call-to string 
(h323:xxxx@(gatekeper_ip_address) for example).

Can we make this a feature request?

Thanks,
Alan