[Ekiga-list] Ekiga to LifeSize videoconferencing

[Steve Corwin <scorwin shopzilla com>]

I found this list while researching how to get Ekiga to connect to a 
LifeSize videoconferencing unit, so I thought I should report that I did 
get it to work.

My PC is running Ekiga 3.2.5 on Debian 5.0 with kernel version 2.6.26. 
Ekiga was installed from from ekiga_3.2.5-1~bpo50+1_i386.deb and 
libopal3.6.4_3.6.4~dfsg-1~bpo50+1_i386.deb, both downloaded from 
http://blaniel.free.fr/debian/lenny-backports/.  Initially I could see 
the video from the LifeSize with Ekiga, but couldn't see video from 
Ekiga on the LifeSize even though the video was visible on my screen.  I 
installed the non-free plugins from 
libopal3.6.4-plugins-nonfree_3.6.4~dfsg-1~bpo50+1_i386.deb, and now I 
have video and audio working in both directions.

To connect to the LifeSize I use h.323, so the address looks like 
"h323:10.40.12.10".  So far I've only used it on the local subnet, 
inside the firewall, so there can't be any firewall or NAT issues.

Thanks for writing Ekiga!

-Steve