[Ekiga-list] I hear no echo calling 500 at ekiga.net but am able to videoconference with my sister with horrible sound

[vatbier]

--- Fabrice ALPHONSO <fabrice at alphonso.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > When calling 500 at ekiga.net or any other echo service I hear the
> voice of the 
> > lady but never an echo of what i'm throwing at the microphone.
> > My firewall has these ports open: 1720/tcp,  30000:30010/tcp, 
> 5060/udp.
> > The configuration druid said that I do no need a STUN server. Are
> there other 
> > ports that I should open?
> 
> As advertised on the relevant wiki page at :
> http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Internet_ports_used_by_Ekiga
> the open ports you need are :
> for SIP: 5000-5100/UDP with listen port 5060
> Hope that helps
> 
> Fabrice

Yes, I think it has helped. I opened my firewall to range 5000:5100/udp
and now I can hear my echo when calling 500 at ekiga.net.
I first mistakingly thought that only port 5060 was required for
listening but the whole range 5000:5100 is apparently needed.
It isn't very clear for me (and maybe others) on
http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Internet_ports_used_by_Ekiga what a
software firewall has to allow for incoming traffic.
It says "The main port listening for incoming connections in Ekiga for
SIP is port 5060 (UDP),...", because of this I thought that only that
port had to be opened for incoming traffic.
And also "STUN 3478-3479 UDP Outgoing traffic to the STUN server":
that's for the incoming ports for the STUN server, right? (My Mandriva
firewall allows every outgoing connection (I think) so that's not a
problem.)

Thank you,

vatbier


 
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