Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] alien registrar problem

[Michael Rickmann <mrickma gwdg de>]

Christian Schäfer schrieb:
> Damien Sandras wrote:
> > OK, first a few remarks :
> > - having private IP addresses in SIP PDUs in perfectly legal and
> > conform ;
> > - in your logs, I see Ekiga puts both IP : private and public in the
> > contact field, this is also legal and the sip registrar at lund1.de
> > should not complain about it as there is also the public IP (with high
> > priority as q=1)
>
> By the way, today I stumbled over an article in the current German's 
> Linux Magazine issue, where a bunch of voip clients gets tested. They 
> also observe this issue concerning the private IP address which makes it 
> impossible to connect to some (german) providers like 1&1 and GMX with 
> ekiga.
Well, in a way these providers sell their phone numbers and they save 
money when they can not be used. But otherwise I cannot see any reason 
but achieving acceptance of standards why Ekiga - actually it seems Opal 
- behaves this way. I think trying with public and private IP first, if 
failure trying again with public only, if failure give in could be 
implemented.
Regards
Michael