[Ekiga-list] ekiga behind speedtouch 780 home gateway

[SZABO Zsolt]

Hi,

I've got the following problem (Ekiga 2.0.9 for etch):

I CAN use ekiga through a vpn tunnel (of my office), when I setup the vpn 
as the default gateway and enable the ports 5000:5100 in the FORWARD chain
at the firewall of the office. To more precisely say, the echo test on 
500 at ekiga.net seems to work (I can hear the welcome message and later my 
voice).

However, I would like to setup ekiga without this vpn hack. When I forward 
the port 5000:5100 on the SpeedTouch home gw to my linux box ekiga CAN 
register either setting the NAT mode to STUN or IP translation.
I have also succeeded in connecting to 500 at ekiga.net but I CANNOT hear 
anything! I have checked my registration by logging in ekiga.net, and I 
see: myaccount at adsl.ip.num.ber:4053

That was a bit strange, thus I set back the default gw to the vpn, and 
rerun ekiga and the echo test (with success) and checked the registration 
at ekiga.net again: myaccount at myoffice.gw.ip.num:5061 ...

So, setting the default gw to my home gateway and rerunning ekiga a couple 
of times and testing the registration showed every time different port 
number out of the range 5000:5100. Thus I have enabled the port forwarding 
on SpeedTouch  home gw for ports 4000:5900, and checked the registration 
again: the port was 5902! (Earlier I had also tried to forward all port on 
the home gw (1:65535) but as fas as I remember that did not work at 
all...)

My question is that whether this operation is normal...?

At another place (my parents) where there is no home gateway (router) and 
the linux box dials an ADSL modem (of the same ADSL ISP) and setups the 
firewall rules can be found at ekiga.org, there is no problem with the 
echo test (and the version of Ekiga is 2.0.3)

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Zsolt