Re: [Ekiga-list] Trouble getting cross-plattform video to work

[Torsten Crass <torsten crass eBiology de>]

Yannick (and others),

> If your ekigas were not on the same LAN, it would have work as it work
> for me and my friend. Installing bonjour on the windows platform will
> make it work inside your LAN.

I see... ok, but since my current setup (both Linux and Windows behind 
the same NAT router) was supposed to serve testing purposes only and the 
target scenario will encompass two separate LANs, I don't think I should 
like installing bonjour on the Windows machine.

This morning I tried to connect to our home LAN (the Windows client) 
from my sister-in-law's place (hooked up my Linux laptop to their DSL 
router (128 kBit/s upstream)) -- just to experience some new problems 
preventing me from successfully "phoning home". The first issue seemed 
to have been related to NAT stuff (again) -- my relatives' router (a 
German T-Online Speedport W700V) "successfully" blocked my attempts to 
even register with ekiga.net; registration was possible only after 
completely disabling the built-in firewall. I wonder which wicked things 
this router was trying to do -- instead of just translating my 
datagrams' addresses to and fro. (Anybody else out there having trouble 
with Speeport routers...? Models W770V and W500 (without "V") in particular)

But even after disabling the firewall and successful registration (here 
comes the 2nd problem) neither audio nor video was transmitted when 
trying out ekiga.net's echo service. :-(

Dammit, I'd really love to see an idiot-proof open-protocoll-based 
open-source alternative to the "Microsoft of internet telephony", as one 
might call Skype...

So if anyone had some idea on how to deal with the above mentioned 
issues, I'd be glad... Or maybe some debug info (yes, meanwhile I 
learned how to make Ekiga talk... :-) would be helpful?

But anyway... top priority these day is, of course, celebrating 
Christmas with your loved ones (at least if you adhere to the underlying 
belief system ;-) So enjoy the day --

	Torsten