[Ekiga-list] Linux Journal article on Ekiga and Wengo

[Karel Kulhavy]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:09:17PM +0100, Damien Sandras wrote:
> Le vendredi 16 février 2007 ?? 10:02 +0100, Karel Kulhavy a écrit :
> > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:48:08PM -0800, George Boyd wrote:
> > > The problem I believe,is when reviewers test and compare software (in
> > > this case the article you mentioned), is that the reviewers are not
> > > fully aware of the potential or features of the software they are
> > > writing about. Reviewers should know the programs completely before they
> > > try to write comparison articles. 
> > 
> > Reviewers are writing reviews for ordinary users, and ordinary users typically
> > have only superficial knowledge of software. In today's world, where you are
> > using many pieces of software concurrently, learning each one in depth would
> > require too much time.
> > 
> > I think it's OK when a reviewer writes a review from position of someone
> > who doesn't know the software completely.
> > 
> 
> Probably, but there is a saying : compare what is actually comparable.
> 
> Flexibility has a price.
> 
> Perhaps Wengo has some features Ekiga doesn't have. But the opposite is
> also true.

I tried about 5 different phones on OpenBSD incl. Wengo and Ekiga and all
failed (didn't even compile). Then I tried x-ten x-lite on Windows and it
didn't work. Sent internal address in SDP so it couldn't get the RTP data. Even
when I fiddled with all the NAT settings and even made a port forwarding. Then
I managed to install Ekiga on Windows (website instructions worked) and that
worked :)

Now I am trying to make our hardware SIP implementation call in to Ekiga.
Maybe blows up on the "Contact:". The RFC says " The Contact header field
provides a SIP or SIPS URI that can be used to contact that specific
instance of the UA for subsequent requests." - that doesn't explicitly say that
5060 cannot be used anymore, so I am continuing to send the ACK to 5060 and
Ekiga shows "connected", but doesn't send any RTP and doesn't play anything
(even when the RTP is coming to her and contains sound). Ekiga sends a
2xx with Contact:<192.168.2.68:5067>. Does the RFC
actually mean "provides a SIP or SIPS URI that must be used to contact that
specific instance of the UA for subsequent requests"? 

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