Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Nortel MCS5200 & Ekiga

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Hello,

Le lundi 20 février 2006 à 22:58 -0500, Ari Reads a écrit :
> Hello Damien & Team,
> 
>    I've been following Ekiga/SIP support development for long, as a
> listener. Finally I installed a cvs snapshot in my Ubuntu desktop at
> home, configured an account with my Lab softswitch (Nortel MCS 5200,
> release 3.0.55), and after a 10 minute fight, I got it working.
> 
>   GREAT WORK!
> 
>   Inbound & outbound calls with no problem, DTMF/RFC2833, and even
> Instant Messaging worked fine out of the box. Really impressive.
> 
>   The only thing that did not work is Message Waiting Indicator. MCS
> sends back the NOTIFY message below when it has a new message in the
> voicemail.
> 
>    Could you please add support for Nortel MCS-style MWI in Ekiga? 
> 
>    Now what I had to do to make it work:
>           Accept defaults for STUN
>           Edit > Preferences > Audio Codecs: leave only PCMU and PCMA
> selected
>           Edit > Preferences > Video Codecs: uncheck "enable video
> support" 
> 
>           (unfortunately Nortel gateways don't support any of the cool
> new codecs,
>            only g729 and g723)
>          
>           I had to add a line in /etc/hosts with my registrar IP
> (which is not in DNS) in this way: 
>           222.333.44.55    voip.registrar.com
> 
>           And then in the Account config, set the Registrar field to:
> "voip.registrar.com"
>           I had to do this because:
>                If in "Registrar" I just enter the IP address
> (222.333.44.55), the ougoing invites
>                will take a "To:" of the form:
> 4031234567 222 333 44 55
>                However MCS expects: 4031234567 voip registrar com
>              
>           All other VoIP devices I have worked with, form the "To:"
> field using the "Realm" configuration. Ekiga support Realm
> configuration, so it would be cool if you could add it automatcially
> to the dialed number. 

I'll have a look at this.

> 
> 
> Thank you guys so much and keep up the good work,
> Ari
> 
> 
> ---------------------------- MESSSAGE WAITING INDICATOR / NOTIFY
> EHTEREAL CAPTURE *****
> ---------------------------- So cool if you can add support for this 
> 
> NOTIFY sip:ari reads 77 33 44 55:5081 SIP/2.0 
> t: <sip:ari reads some account com> 
> f: <sip:ari reads some account com>;tag=15422606 
> i: 10930091ef9 
> CSeq: 2413 NOTIFY 
> v: SIP/2.0/UDP
> 216.13.69.22:5060;branch=z9hG4bK774f9519bc775baaad0e1acb16f4eba2 
> Max-Forwards: 20 
> EVENT: message-summary 
> k: com.nortelnetworks.firewall,p-3rdpartycontrol,nosec 
> l: 23 
> c: application/simple-message-summary 
>  
> Messages-Waiting: yes 

That should work. What is the problem with MWI?
Can you provide me a test account?

Thanks,
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