Re: [Ekiga-list] Packages with fixed NAT for Debian?

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

On 27/05/10 01:10, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> 2010/3/31 Eugen Dedu<Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>:
> > Christian Jaeger wrote:
> > > I hear there has been a NAT bug fixed lately, which might be the
> > > reason that Ekiga doesn't work with my VPN setup (Twinkle works). Is
> > > the fix in sid or testing already? If not, is there a patch?
> >
> > The patch is at
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/ekiga-list/2010-March/msg00127.html
> >
> > Please tell us if it fixes your problem.
>
> Thanks, in fact it seems to improve things:
>
> - Ekiga can now register at ekiga.net
> - when I call 520 ekiga net, I get the call back, receive it, hear the
> message, hear myself, the only thing that's missing is remote video
> (it shows local video, as I can verify by plugging out the ethernet:
> audio goes away, video is still updated; also the "View" menu doesn't
> un-grey the remote video entry)

This could be because your packet has more than ~1500 bytes.  Check off 
a few codecs and try again.

> - when I call 500 ekiga net, audio is silent; but after ~20 seconds,
> as normally expected the video switches to remote video (still no
> audio)
>
> So, NAT works except NAT still doesn't work or something like that
> (but I don't know for sure if the above brokenness is really due to
> the NAT, but what else should it be?).
>
> NAT is being done by a linux box (with nf_nat_sip kernel module loaded).
>
> (Sound is OSS, with an .asoundrc to make alsa use oss as back end; it
> is a mess: ring tone requires .asoundrc, but voice audio in and out go
> directly to OSS, but only thanks to me setting .gconf dir entries
> manually to entries from older Ekiga versions: the "Detect devices"
> button in the sound prefs never finds anything. But with this sound
> seems to be working reliably, so the above problems must be something
> else like networking issues.)

If I understand correctly, Detect devices works for systems where 
automatic discovery does not work (not the case for gnu/linux).  But I 
do not have more information, so I do not know what to do.

For the mess: is it sound, or ekiga?

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Eugen