Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] GnomeMeeting behind NAT

[darren mail freebirdtech com]

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I installed opengk last night and was going to test tonight.

What are the advantages of running a gatekeeper?  And, is it still a 
prefered method for NAT?

Thanks,

Darren

On 11 Oct 
2002, Damien Sandras wrote:

> Hi all;
> 
> 
> Several of you had problems with GnomeMeeting behind NAT. There were not
> many solutions : RSIP, Newnat patch (buggy), Gatekeeper as a proxy.
> 
> GnomeMeeting 0.94 has been delayed of a few days because a new solution
> was found (thanks to Roger for the idea) : IP Translation.
> You can choose in the GUI to enable or not IP Translation to the IP of
> the NAT/PAT router, you can also specify the IP to translate to. Bug if
> you register to ils.seconix.com, the ILS service will be used to
> determine the IP to use.
> 
> Thanks to that solution, port forwarding is enough to make GnomeMeeting
> work behind a NAT/PAT router. GnomeMeeting also supports now to change
> the used port ranges, it means that you can have several GnomeMeeting
> running at the same time behind a NAT/PAT router. The "listening port"
> for incoming connections, is registered to ILS, it means that whatever
> the port you are listening on, your callto URL doesn't change (for
> example, callto://ils.seconix.com/dsandras seconix com will always work
> when you are registered to ILS).
> 
> 
>