Re: [Ekiga-list] Experimenting with telnet and Ekiga

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

On 26/01/12 19:52, Ken Resander wrote:
> In the past I have used telnet for practising with protocols like smtp, pop, ftp etc while reading the rfcs. For example, I could connect via telnet to an smtp server by entering telnet smtp.ntlworld 25 from the command line and then issue smtp commands and view the smtp responses from the server. Very useful!
>
> I would like to use telnet with ekiga in a similar way, for example by calling the echo test function at sip:500 ekiga net, issue INVITE, ACK, BYE etc and observe what happens. I tried connecting by entering:
> $ telnet ekiga.net
> Trying 86.64.162.35...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>
> and also:
>
> $ telnet ekiga.net 5060
> Trying 86.64.162.35...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>
> but could get not beyond this point.

Contrary to the protocols you used in the past which use TCP, SIP is 
generally based on UDP, and ekiga.net uses UDP exclusively.  As such, 
telnet does not work.

If you want to play with, you can either use a script like the one 
presented at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=529082#c1, or 
better use tiny programs doing configurable client and server work, I do 
not remember what is their name...

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Eugen