[Ekiga-list] ekiga for roaming laptop use

[Damien Sandras]

Hi,

Le lundi 12 février 2007 à 10:57 +0100, Tobias Richter a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Ekiga works nicely, it was the only voip app that managed to
> pass my NAT setup without any fuzz, and I tested five of them.
> 

:-)

> But I'd like to use it on a roaming laptop. The outgoing net
> interface changes between three possible interfaces and it can
> change while Ekiga is running. In such a case I have to 
> 	a) quit Ekiga, as I cannot configure it to use an
> 	   interface that wasn't up on startup
> 	b) ensure the interface is up
> 	c) start Ekiga again
> 	d) configure the outgoing net interface in Preferences
> 	e) restart Ekiga, as it doesn't retry the SIP registration
> 	   right after the config change (maybe it does so later)
> That's really awkward. If Ekiga would just use the interface with
> the default route on it and recheck this if a network transaction
> fails, that would be much more convenient.
> 

That is one of my priorities for next release. You are indeed facing one
of the weak points of Ekiga...
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