Re: [Ekiga-list] ekiga behind two routers

[Mark Smith <drmesmith yahoo com>]

I tried registering with ideasip since the ideasip echo test number on the ekiga fun numbers list worked. But ekiga will not work with ideasip.

I also tried iptel as one poster suggested. It works just fine.

--- On Thu, 5/19/11, Jānis Rukšāns <thedogfarted gmail com> wrote:

> From: Jānis Rukšāns <thedogfarted gmail com>
> Subject: Re: [Ekiga-list] ekiga behind two routers
> To: "Ekiga mailing list" <ekiga-list gnome org>
> Date: Thursday, May 19, 2011, 2:25 PM
> Hello, Damien
> 
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>
> wrote:
> > The problem is that if we do not check for private IP
> addresses, users will
> > be able to call eachother, but RTP trafic will not go
> through.
> >
> > That means users will complain of "no audio"
> problems...
> >
> > Is that preferable ?
> 
> In my opinion it's better to have "no audio" in some cases
> rather than
> not being able to use the service at all. Rejecting private
> IPs in
> Contact header is perfectly reasonable (although the
> response
> shouldn't be 6xx, but I admit that's nitpicking), but a
> private IP in
> Via should be fine.
> 
> My reasoning is that if the client lists it's public
> address in
> Contact, then apparently it *is* employing some kind of NAT
> traversal,
> hopefully for RTP as well. Also a private IP in Via allows
> the server
> to work around the tricky case of both users being behind
> the same NAT
> (the server can send a redirect to the private IP).
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Ian
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