Re: [Ekiga-list] Two ekiga logins on the same PC won't work?

[ael <law_ence dev ntlworld com>]

Rob wrote:
> ael wrote on Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:49:
> > John Feagans wrote:
> > > Two instances of Ekiga on the same PC cannot work,
> > > but you may also have the same problem if you have
> > > two PC's each running Ekiga behind the same home router.
> > I have been doing this for years. Just use gconf-edit
> > to assign different ports to each instance of ekiga.
> > Actually even that isn't necessary because the NAT
> > router changes ports anyway. 
>
> > > Your public IP address 
>
> > + port
>   ^^^^^^
> > > is used to register the Ekiga instance.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Could you be a little more specific on how you
> have done this for different users on a single PC?

Sorry. I should have been explicit. I was referring to the case of 
several PCs behind a single NAT router. Not multiple ekigas on one PC. 
That said, surely each user can have their own ports specified in
~/.gconf/apps/ekiga/ which ought to work?

> And should every Ekiga user behind a NAT router
> use a different port?

For multiple PCs, that is what I do, although I am pretty sure that it
is not really needed since the NAT mapping ensures distinct external 
ports from different machines.

> And do I then have to configure the router to forward
> certain ports back to the specific internal PC
> (might be difficult with DHCP random IP assignments).

Use port triggering as on the wiki.

ael