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Re: Ekiga and SIP - question

2009-12-12T06:26:22Z

Look internet for keywords: DID number, buy DID number, what is DID
number. It will give you ideas of which providers sell you this
"special" number. Then they will direct calls coming on purchased number
to your SIP system and you can configure it to accept it. As i know
ekiga provide only outgoing calls.

В Сбт, 12/12/2009 в 11:35 +0100, Damien Sandras пишет:

> Le samedi 12 décembre 2009 à 01:23 +0100, johny jj2 a écrit :
> > Hello!
> >
> > I asked some question here
> > http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1591906#post13047209
> > and they suggested me to try Ekiga. And I've got question about it.
> >
> > I'd like to create little PBX system such that user calls special
> > number from mobile phone, this number connects him to server with
> > Asterisk (server) + ScribbleJ (plugin) + Sphinx4 (speech recognition).
> > To be able to call server, I need to have this special number. I'm not
> > so familiar with this whole SIP but it looks like I can obtain this
> > number from Ekiga because it is SIP provider.
> >
> > Is it possible with Ekiga?
> >
> Ekiga.net will not allow this. Diamondcard or any other ITSP will
> allow it, because they provide real numbers in various countries.
>
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2009-12-12T04:00:44Z

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Re: Ekiga and SIP - question

2009-12-12T02:35:39Z

Le samedi 12 décembre 2009 à 01:23 +0100, johny jj2 a écrit :

Hello!

I asked some question here
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1591906#post13047209
and they suggested me to try Ekiga. And I've got question about it.

I'd like to create little PBX system such that user calls special
number from mobile phone, this number connects him to server with
Asterisk (server) + ScribbleJ (plugin) + Sphinx4 (speech recognition).
To be able to call server, I need to have this special number. I'm not
so familiar with this whole SIP but it looks like I can obtain this
number from Ekiga because it is SIP provider.

Is it possible with Ekiga?

Ekiga.net will not allow this. Diamondcard or any other ITSP will allow it, because they provide real numbers in various countries.

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Ekiga and SIP - question

2009-12-11T16:23:50Z

Hello!

I asked some question here
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1591906#post13047209
and they suggested me to try Ekiga. And I've got question about it.

I'd like to create little PBX system such that user calls special
number from mobile phone, this number connects him to server with
Asterisk (server) + ScribbleJ (plugin) + Sphinx4 (speech recognition).
To be able to call server, I need to have this special number. I'm not
so familiar with this whole SIP but it looks like I can obtain this
number from Ekiga because it is SIP provider.

Is it possible with Ekiga?

Greetings!
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I can call the neighbours, but I can't call by using the sip:xxx@ekiga.net

2009-12-08T01:22:39Z

Hi,
When I build ekiga 3.2.6, sip is enable.
1. I found that if ekiga can find the neighbour then I can call him， but when I used his account, it told me that the user is un available!
2. the same ekiga 3.2.6(just as an copy after I build it), one can work in ubuntu 804, but the another one can't work on my customized system. In this system the account can register, but can not find any neighbours!
3. I am not sure that if there is a bug of ekiga 3.2.6, when someone terminated the call and exit, the another one exited too!(some time showed me segmentation fault); when I close echo test, it died away on ubuntu804 and ubuntu910(more than 50%）.

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Re: Re (2): Maybe was asked lot of time... what is the best platform for ekiga?

2009-12-07T09:36:58Z

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 07:48 (-0800), peasthope@... wrote:

> Folk,

>> Apparently, it does not respect any configuration method other than
>> gconf-editor.

> Configuration _via_ plain text is easily understood and
> allows automated processing. Twinkle, for example,
> has ~/.twinkle/peter.ab containing lines such as this.
> Peter||Easthope|sip:17785886232|

> The file is easily manipulated with an editor, a regular
> expression tool or something more sophisticated. It
> is a well established and powerful means of configuration.

> Regards, ... Peter E.

Gosh, what a radical view.

I mean really, what sort of twisted thinking would lead someone to use
a simply-formatted plain text file when instead you can have 423
separate config files (in 47 different directories) controlling
the same thing? Where's the fun in that? And without XML, how would
you achieve all the redundant verbosity? Where is the wonderful and
gratuitous complexity?

Jim

P.S. For the humour-impaired: I'm kidding, I would vastly prefer one
or two plain text files for most/all of the config info.

P.S.2: As a slackware user, I have had to compile gnomish programs
with minimal gconf support for the past few years (since Slackware
dropped gnome a while back). I can happily say that the robustness of
said programs has increased noticeably, as opposed to before when I
used to suffer mysterious errors because, apparently, gconfd was
having a bad day. As if I could care.

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After registered my count, I can not find any available user to communicate.

2009-12-07T01:21:07Z

Hello,

My customized system is on the base of UBUNT804(such as libs, gtk and so on), the ekiga in 804 is too old.

So I rebuild ekiga3.2.6 in ubuntu804. It can work well in 804 and communicate with other counts which are in UBUNTU910's ekiga.

But when I migrate it to my system, it just can register but can't get in touch with anybody.

I attached some error message to look for some resolutions.

===========================================================

(ekiga:7546): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Two different plugins tried to register 'BasicEngineFc'.

(ekiga:7546): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed

(ekiga:7546): Pango-WARNING **: Failed to load Pango module '/usr/lib/pango/modules/pango-basic-fc.so' for id 'BasicScriptEngineFc'

(ekiga:7546): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed

(ekiga:7546): Pango-WARNING **: Failed to load Pango module '/usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so' for id 'BasicScriptEngineFc'

(ekiga:7546): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Two different plugins tried to register 'BasicEngineFc'.

(ekiga:7546): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed

============================================================

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484 Address Incomplete

2009-12-06T17:44:57Z

Hello,

I haven't found any references to using LinkSys PAP2 ATA with ekiga in
this mail list archives. I am following STUN setup pags 50-52
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/csbpvga/ata/administration/guide/ATA_AG_v3_NC-WEB.pdf.
The setup works with several SIP providers but not with ekiga. Native
ekiga client works fine on the same subnet. I haven't yet compared
PAP2 and ekiga client NOTIFY requests line by line but may have to do
it if nothing else helps. Any pointers are appreciated.

Eugene.
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Re: Server internal error.

2009-12-06T10:16:56Z

Le dimanche 06 décembre 2009 à 11:37 -0500, Eugene Kanter a écrit :

Several days ago my ekiga stopped working completely. Here is the
fragment of the network trace.

U 192.168.1.101:5060 -> 86.64.162.35:5060
  INVITE sip:500@... SIP/2.0..Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:21:35 GMT..CSeq
  : 2 INVITE..Via: SIP/2.0/UDP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5060;branch=z9hG4bKc8c4a817-f1e0-
  de11-8fb9-0016cfc69c4c;rport..User-Agent: Ekiga/3.2.6 ...
#
U 86.64.162.35:5060 -> 192.168.1.101:5060
  SIP/2.0 100 Giving a try..CSeq: 2 INVITE..Via: SIP/2.0/UDP ...
#
U 86.64.162.35:5060 -> 192.168.1.101:5060
  SIP/2.0 500 Server internal error..Via: SIP/2.0/UDP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5060;recei
  ved=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;....

Same exact ekiga client works with proxy01.sipphone.com with no problems.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Asterisk was crashed on ekiga.net. I restarted it.
The main server was still up, but not the echo test. Thanks for reporting it.

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Server internal error.

2009-12-06T08:37:15Z

Several days ago my ekiga stopped working completely. Here is the
fragment of the network trace.

U 192.168.1.101:5060 -> 86.64.162.35:5060
INVITE sip:500@... SIP/2.0..Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:21:35 GMT..CSeq
: 2 INVITE..Via: SIP/2.0/UDP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5060;branch=z9hG4bKc8c4a817-f1e0-
de11-8fb9-0016cfc69c4c;rport..User-Agent: Ekiga/3.2.6 ...
#
U 86.64.162.35:5060 -> 192.168.1.101:5060
SIP/2.0 100 Giving a try..CSeq: 2 INVITE..Via: SIP/2.0/UDP ...
#
U 86.64.162.35:5060 -> 192.168.1.101:5060
SIP/2.0 500 Server internal error..Via: SIP/2.0/UDP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5060;recei
ved=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;....

Same exact ekiga client works with proxy01.sipphone.com with no problems.

Does anyone have any ideas?

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Re: Two ekiga logins on the same PC won't work?

2009-12-06T07:38:06Z

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Jim Diamond <Jim.Diamond@...> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:48 (+0200), J??nis Ruk????ns wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> Anyway the Ekiga is already using different ports for each account,
>> and the only thing listening on 5060 is required for is direct IP
>> dialling. I don't think many people are using this feature, it's
>> kinda irrelevant with DHCP-assigned IPs and hey, we have mDNS for
>> calling people on the same LAN.
>
> It is possible that not many people are using this feature, but
> speaking as someone who does use it, I'd like it not to be entirely
> dismissed out of hand.

Honestly I think calling by IP is much more common than having more
than one instance of Ekiga running on the same PC. However with the
advent of fast user switching we might expect the last issue to pop up
more often.

I'm not saying the possibility to dial by IP should be thrown out, I'm
using it myself very often. What I'm saying is that it shouldn't be a
"tragedy" for Ekiga if the port 5060 is already taken. Ekiga could
simply choose a different port and present the user with an
informational message that the default port is already in use by a
different application.

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Re: Two ekiga logins on the same PC won't work?

2009-12-06T05:48:09Z

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:48 (+0200), J??nis Ruk????ns wrote:

<snip>

> Anyway the Ekiga is already using different ports for each account,
> and the only thing listening on 5060 is required for is direct IP
> dialling. I don't think many people are using this feature, it's
> kinda irrelevant with DHCP-assigned IPs and hey, we have mDNS for
> calling people on the same LAN.

It is possible that not many people are using this feature, but
speaking as someone who does use it, I'd like it not to be entirely
dismissed out of hand.

It is not irrelevant with DHCP-assigned IPs if you have some other way
of knowing the IP of the person you want to call.

For example, back in the gnomemeeting and Ekiga 2.0 days I was using
Ekiga to add video+audio to another system, and that other system
knows the IPs of the people it wants Ekiga to connect to. This was
much simpler than getting everyone to register their ekiga account,
have the other software know their registration info, and hope that
there are no problems looking someone up there and then.

Having said that, I'm one of those people who can't get Ekiga to work
properly since 2.something, but I keep hoping. (I should note that I
haven't tested doing calls with 3.2.6 yet, although on my computer
3.2.6 dumps core just shutting down.)

Cheers.
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Re: Two ekiga logins on the same PC won't work?

2009-12-06T03:02:51Z

Rob wrote:
> John Feagans wrote on Sat, 5 Dec 2009 07:44:

> If SSH would operate like Ekiga, only one instance of SSH is allowed
> from my home network. However, I've never encountered problems
> with the number of SSH connections (and I have many connections
> simultaneously active!).
>
> I don't think SSH uses a revolutionary protocol; it's rather common
> and standard.

The NAT translation looks after that. The complication with ekiga (and
other VOIP) is the need for another "unknown" machine to be introduced
which is where the STUN protocol comes in. As long as you have a CONE
NAT or use port triggering to open up a local small temporary "CONE",
everything should "just" work.

So sip voip is different from ordinary network applications: the server
must somehow "introduce" two parties to each other. But NAT firewall
routers are designed to bounce 3rd party incoming traffic. Hence the
extra complication.

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Re: Two ekiga logins on the same PC won't work?

2009-12-06T02:48:49Z

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Rob <spamrefuse@...> wrote:
> Thanks for this explanation, but it leaves me quite confused.

Uhh, I'll try to explain better.

> I have 5 PCs here behind a NAT router as a home network.
> I extensively use Secure Shell (SSH) as my means of communication
> to computers outside and inside.
>
> If SSH would operate like Ekiga, only one instance of SSH is allowed
> from my home network. However, I've never encountered problems
> with the number of SSH connections (and I have many connections
> simultaneously active!).

First of all, the ssh you launch from the terminal is the client - it
is only making connections to other computers, not accepting incoming
connections. The latter is done by sshd and normally there is only one
sshd running on each computer, because only one application is allowed
to bind and listen on a particular IP:port combination. You can try it
out yourself with nc:

From one terminal:
[dogs@sunc ~]$ nc -l 1234 # listen on INADDR_ANY:1234

From another terminal:
[dogs@sunc ~]$ nc -l 1234 # listen on INADDR_ANY:1234
nc: Address already in use
[dogs@sunc ~]$

However Ekiga (and any other VoIP software for that matter) is both
client *and* server. It is both making "connections" to other
computers as well as listening on SIP standard port (which is 5060)
for incoming calls. Thus if you want to run multiple Ekiga instances
on the same computer you need to configure them to listen on different
ports (same thing with SSH - if you want to run multiple sshd's you
need them to listen on different ports). One can argue that the second
(third etc) instance of Ekiga should be able to detect that port 5060
is taken and use a different port.

> Therefore, I find it difficult to believe that Ekiga doesn't have an automatic
> built-in solution for several Ekiga logins behind a NAT router, since
> other software seems to have no problems with that too.....

Actually NAT shouldn't matter here at all, as long as STUN and UDP
tracking on the router is working and there are no restrictions on
ekiga.net or whatever VoIP provider you're using (I have a Cisco
CallManager at work which limits the number of accounts to one per IP
address). Ekiga running on multiple computers behind NAT should work
just fine.

> Moreover, I try to switch from Skype to Ekiga; I have 4 Skype logins
> active at the moment, 2 on the same PC and another 2 on different
> PCs. All behind the same NAT router. No problems or clashes!

Skype obviously is listening on an a random unused port and
advertising the IP and port to other Skype users through it's
infrastructure. That's why it's possible to have multiple Skype logins
on the same PC.

Technically Ekiga is doing the same - it is using different port (that
is also different from the default one) for each configured account
and advertising it via registration. Just for some reason it
desperately wants to listen on the default port as well. As I
mentioned it can be argued that listening on 5060 is not that critical
and Ekiga should automagically choose a different port if 5060 is
taken. Anyway the Ekiga is already using different ports for each
account, and the only thing listening on 5060 is required for is
direct IP dialling. I don't think many people are using this feature,
it's kinda irrelevant with DHCP-assigned IPs and hey, we have mDNS for
calling people on the same LAN.

Now to sum up:

As already said, multiple Ekiga logins on different PCs behind the
same NAT should just work without any additional setup. If it doesn't
then it's a totally different problem related to NAT traversal.

To get multiple Ekiga logins working on the same PC (but with
different users, like you described), try changing the
/apps/ekiga/protocols/sip/listen_port (assuming you're using only SIP)
to something different than 5060 for one of the users (eg 5070, the
easiest way to do that is with gconf-editor - yum install gconf-editor
and it will show up in Applications/System Tools as Configuration
Editor). If that doesn't do the trick, try changing
/apps/ekiga/protocols/h323/listen_port as well, just to shut it up. If
you still get the same error after that I consider it a bug in Ekiga.

Running multiple Ekiga instances on the same PC and same user is not
possible but I see no reason why would one want to do that as you can
have multiple accounts active at the same time.

I hope this helps.

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Re: Two ekiga logins on the same PC won't work?

2009-12-06T02:48:09Z

Rob wrote:

> ael wrote on Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:49:
>> John Feagans wrote:
>>> Two instances of Ekiga on the same PC cannot work,
>>> but you may also have the same problem if you have
>>> two PC's each running Ekiga behind the same home router.
>> I have been doing this for years. Just use gconf-edit
>> to assign different ports to each instance of ekiga.
>> Actually even that isn't necessary because the NAT
>> router changes ports anyway.
>
>>> Your public IP address
>
>> + port
> ^^^^^^
>>> is used to register the Ekiga instance.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Could you be a little more specific on how you
> have done this for different users on a single PC?
>

Sorry. I should have been explicit. I was referring to the case of
several PCs behind a single NAT router. Not multiple ekigas on one PC.
That said, surely each user can have their own ports specified in
~/.gconf/apps/ekiga/ which ought to work?

> And should every Ekiga user behind a NAT router
> use a different port?

For multiple PCs, that is what I do, although I am pretty sure that it
is not really needed since the NAT mapping ensures distinct external
ports from different machines.

> And do I then have to configure the router to forward
> certain ports back to the specific internal PC
> (might be difficult with DHCP random IP assignments).

Use port triggering as on the wiki.

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Re: Two ekiga logins on the same PC won't work?

2009-12-05T15:52:56Z

ael wrote on Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:49:

>
> John Feagans wrote:
> > Two instances of Ekiga on the same PC cannot work,
> > but you may also have the same problem if you have
> > two PC's each running Ekiga behind the same home router.
>
> I have been doing this for years. Just use gconf-edit
> to assign different ports to each instance of ekiga.
> Actually even that isn't necessary because the NAT
> router changes ports anyway.

> > Your public IP address

> + port
^^^^^^
> > is used to register the Ekiga instance.

Thank you!

Could you be a little more specific on how you
have done this for different users on a single PC?

And should every Ekiga user behind a NAT router
use a different port?

And do I then have to configure the router to forward
certain ports back to the specific internal PC
(might be difficult with DHCP random IP assignments).

I can't see what ports I have to manage for Ekiga,
and what ports Ekiga is managing automatically.

Thanks!
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Re: Two ekiga logins on the same PC won't work?

2009-12-05T15:40:25Z

John Feagans wrote on Sat, 5 Dec 2009 07:44:
> Two instances of Ekiga on the same PC cannot work,
> but you may
also have the same problem if you have
> two PC's each running Ekiga
behind the same home router.
>
> Your public IP address is used to register the Ekiga instance.
> There is only one for the PC, and also only one for your home
> router.
If a call was coming in, to which PC, or instance of Ekiga
> would the
protocol go?
>
> The second problem is H.323 uses port 1720 as the Q.931
> listening
port. If one instance of Ekiga has used this port, the other
> instance
of Ekiga cannot.

Thanks for this explanation, but it leaves me quite confused.

I have 5 PCs here behind a NAT router as a home network.
I extensively use Secure Shell (SSH) as my means of communication
to computers outside and inside.

If SSH would operate like Ekiga, only one instance of SSH is allowed
from my home network. However, I've never encountered problems
with the number of SSH connections (and I have many connections
simultaneously active!).

I don't think SSH uses a revolutionary protocol; it's rather common
and standard.

Moreover, I try to switch from Skype to Ekiga; I have 4 Skype logins
active at the moment, 2 on the same PC and another 2 on different
PCs. All behind the same NAT router. No problems or clashes!

Therefore, I find it difficult to believe that Ekiga doesn't have an automatic
built-in solution for several Ekiga logins behind a NAT router, since
other software seems to have no problems with that too.....

Rob.

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Re: 3.2.6 doesn't reregister before registrar times out.

2009-12-05T15:28:07Z

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Anres Moya <andres.moya.i@...> wrote:
> Maybe try to reduce interval on asterisk for pinging clients behind
> nat/firewall. Also check on ddwrt if you can increase interval for
> firewall that keep firewall open for UDP.

I have no control over the Asterisk behaviour.

> assume this interval is 1 minute or so, then of one of keepalive pings
> (OPTIONS) are lost in network. Then firewall/nat will be closed.

I am running a SIP proxy, so I don't think NAT keepalive is relevant
(of course I may be wrong...)

> So if
> you ask asterisk to ping you once a 30 sec can solve a problem or once
> again, adjust this settings on dd-wrt, it is flexible, sure you can do.

> What actually "timeout" means in ekiga account settings?

AFAIK timeout is sent at registration time to the sip registrar to say
how long the registration should be considered valid.
This is why I think the client (ekiga) should be sending register
requests at intervals less than the specified timeout.

> Have you tried
> to say there 600 insteadnof 3600?

Yes I have. In this case, the OPTIONS requests stop after 600 seconds.
Ekiga never sends another REGISTER after the ones it sends at startup.
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Re: Two ekiga logins on the same PC won't work?

2009-12-05T07:49:43Z

John Feagans wrote:
> Two instances of Ekiga on the same PC cannot work, but you may also
> have the same problem if you have two PC's each running Ekiga behind
> the same home router.

I have been doing this for years. Just use gconf-edit to assign
different ports to each instance of ekiga. Actually even that isn't
necessary because the NAT router changes ports anyway.

> Your public IP address
+ port
^^^^^^
>is used to register the Ekiga instance.

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Re: Two ekiga logins on the same PC won't work?

2009-12-05T07:44:07Z

Two instances of Ekiga on the same PC cannot work, but you may also have the same problem if you have two PC's each running Ekiga behind the same home router.

Your public IP address is used to register the Ekiga instance. There is only one for the PC, and also only one for your home router. If a call was coming in, to which PC, or instance of Ekiga would the protocol go?

The second problem is H.323 uses port 1720 as the Q.931 listening port. If one instance of Ekiga has used this port, the other instance of Ekiga cannot.

A programming solution would be to have configurable port profiles if an instance of Ekiga was already running. Behind a home router this gets quite tricky as you may have to install a static IP on your PC and program your router to use port forwarding. ALG generally solves the problem for you when you use standard H.323 ports.

SIP generally uses port 5060. The same issues for port use also apply here.

Hope this answers your question. We need to make Ekiga more tolerant of other videophone presence.

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Two ekiga logins on the same PC won't work?

2009-12-04T23:25:18Z

Hi,

I have one linux PC (recent Fedora) where two different users
can login with X11 simultaneously at the console; switch user
is possible with ctrl-alt-F[n].

The users have different ekiga.net logins.

The user who logs in to ekiga first has no problem.
The user who logs in to ekiga next gets the following error message:

"Could not register (Transport error)"

If the first user logs out from ekiga, the second user can then
successfully login.....

Any idea why this problem occurs?
And is there a solution?

I use Fedora 11 with Ekiga version 3.2.6.

Thank you!

Rob.

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Configuration. Was "Maybe was asked lot of time ...".

2009-12-04T07:50:17Z

Folk,

> Apparently, it does not respect any configuration method other than gconf-editor.

Configuration _via_ plain text is easily understood and
allows automated processing. Twinkle, for example,
has ~/.twinkle/peter.ab containing lines such as this.
Peter||Easthope|sip:17785886232|

The file is easily manipulated with an editor, a regular
expression tool or something more sophisticated. It
is a well established and powerful means of configuration.

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Re (2): Maybe was asked lot of time... what is the best platform for ekiga?

2009-12-04T07:48:54Z

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Re: 3.2.6 doesn't reregister before registrar times out.

2009-12-04T04:05:49Z

Maybe try to reduce interval on asterisk for pinging clients behind
nat/firewall. Also check on ddwrt if you can increase interval for
firewall that keep firewall open for UDP.

assume this interval is 1 minute or so, then of one of keepalive pings
(OPTIONS) are lost in network. Then firewall/nat will be closed. So if
you ask asterisk to ping you once a 30 sec can solve a problem or once
again, adjust this settings on dd-wrt, it is flexible, sure you can do.
What actually "timeout" means in ekiga account settings? Have you tried
to say there 600 insteadnof 3600?

On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 15:32 +1300, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Intro:
>
> I am running a home built Ekiga on ubuntu 9.04.
> Built ekiga-3.2.6 opal-3.6.6 ptlib-2.6.5
>
> On my router I have dd-wrt with milkfish proxy.
> VOIP provider is running Asterisk (I don't know more details).
>
> I can monitor the SIP traffic using wireshark.
>
> I set up my VOIP account details with default timeout of 3600.
>
> Problem:
> When I start Ekiga, I see that it sends out REGISTER command (4 time
> in the first 5 seconds).
>
> I can see in the milkfish status that I'm registered there.
>
> However, Ekiga never sends another REGISTER, and after a while (1
> hour?) the registration on the proxy (and I assume the outside voip)
> expires. After this, I can't receive incoming calls.
>
> Also For the first hour I see OPTIONS coming in (not sure if this is
> from proxy or provider) and OK going out about once per minute. This
> stops after one hour.
>
> My very naiive assumption is that Ekiga should register again before
> the timeout?
>
> I'm happy to provide traces or do other experiments if this helps.
> (also subscribed to ekiga-devel-list if that is a better place for
> this discussion)
>
> thanks
>
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Re: Maybe was asked lot of time... what is the best platform for ekiga?

2009-12-03T19:14:31Z

Hello,

Here is my experience with Ekiga:

I tried some versions of Ekiga with OpenSuSE (the one bundled with the distro) and I've had some problems. Then I built latest version (3.2.6) from sources and it ran pretty smoothly, except when it hangs: I've seen it hanging after a couple hours left alone and also, or when a video call didn't end properly. This is a test environment so, I can't draw conclusions about hanging in the middle of a video call.

Its video (I tried H.263) is much better than linphone's (ekiga's video was pretty clear while linphone was much like digital TV on a rainy day) and also Ekiga was the only one that established correctly a video call when the SDP was passed on a 180 (RINGING) response. From my viewpoint, that is a good thing about interoperability.

On Win32 (just installed the binaries), Ekiga seems to me also smooth and I've never seen it hanging. The only painful thing about ekiga on windows is to change some settings like the default SIP port. Apparently, it does not respect any configuration method other than gconf-editor.

For the moment, Ekiga & Linphone (respectively) are my favorites.

Regards,

Paulo

2009/12/2 Andres Moya <andres.moya.i@...>

Is there any ongoing development? Any one with "success" story?

Jean-Noël Rivasseau wrote:

I am on Gentoo Linux, but unfortunately only had problems with Ekiga... there are GUI bugs, and even more deeper bugs, most of the time when I want to call I am not able to. Not sure if it is only me...

I am using Twinkle right now, ugly interface, but works well. I hope a new Ekiga version comes out and that it will be less buggy (using the latest one here).

Jean-Noel

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Andres Moya <andres.moya.i@... <mailto:andres.moya.i@...>> wrote:

I am setting up my public voip server. And was searching software
i can recommend to my friends to start testing. I didn't recommend
ekiga for any one with windows. Because ekiga was stop responding
etc lot of times. But with few tricks i was able to make calls...
sometime. I was very sure that ekiga is cool for linux and just
ported for windows.
I was so surprised that i was not able to call out of the box on
ubuntu 9.10 :( maybe my hardware is not supported. But i am able
call with skype and now twinkle. Ekiga is getting frozen.
Especially then i press button to end a call.

My question is. Is there any system there ekiga compiled into a
stable package? Maybe fedora? I want to find a way make video
calls. Or just have some nice messenger integrated into gnome desktop.
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Re: Maybe was asked lot of time... what is the best platform for ekiga?

2009-12-03T13:21:27Z

Le jeudi 03 décembre 2009 à 14:56 -0500, Stuart Lesnett a écrit :

> On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 12:22 +0100, Damien Sandras wrote:
> > Le jeudi 03 décembre 2009 à 11:14 +0000, Anres Moya a écrit :
> > > Ok. I see now. The key is not not to use this (3) alpha version. Strange
> > > it advertised on website. What is the best way to install stable
> > > backport on ubuntu 9.10? Just few days with this system.
> > >
> > > linphone works with video. But it shows plain messages, so if other side
> > > uses formated type i am reading all XML messages including "user typing
> > > message" that is boring ;) My router changes headers so my kamailio deny
> > > its requests with content-length mismatch. Connecting via VPN as
> > > workaround ;) Hm, good idea to try Ekiga on VPN,
> >
> > Ekiga 3.2.6 is supposed to be stable. We ran thousands of calls with
> > it without problem.
> >
> > However, external dependancies like pulseaudio or ALSA are sometimes
> > giving problems.
> >
> >
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> > v_/_ Be IP : http://www.beip.be/
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> > SIP Phone : sip:dsandras@...
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> Damien,
>
> It is nice to point the finger at someone else, but I'm afraid this is
> ekiga's problem for 3.2.5 and 3.2.6. I have sent dumps to Yannick
> after moving to Ubuntu 9.10 from 9.04 with both releases containing NO
> sound and Windows followed suit. The last stable release of ekiga I've
> seen is 3.0.1
>
> I even removed pulseaudio from 9.10 which did release SKYPE to select
> ALSA.
>
> I have also told Yannick that Berkeleytips new Asterisk server works
> fine both audio and video which leads back to your SERVER.
>

Hi,

I'm quite busy atm. If it was reported on the Ubuntu BTS, I've put it on
hold for now. I'll get a look at it in 2 or 3 weeks probably. Sorry for
the delay, but I've few spare time atm. :(

Best regards,
Yannick

> I have been forced to return to SKYPE because it works.
>
> Stu
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Re: Maybe was asked lot of time... what is the best platform for ekiga?

2009-12-03T11:56:44Z

On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 12:22 +0100, Damien Sandras wrote:

Le jeudi 03 décembre 2009 à 11:14 +0000, Anres Moya a écrit :

Ok. I see now. The key is not not to use this (3) alpha version. Strange
it advertised on website. What is the best way to install stable
backport on ubuntu 9.10? Just few days with this system. 

linphone works with video. But it shows plain messages, so if other side
uses formated type i am reading all XML messages including "user typing
message" that is boring ;) My router changes headers so my kamailio deny
its requests with content-length mismatch. Connecting via VPN as
workaround ;) Hm, good idea to try Ekiga on VPN,

Ekiga 3.2.6 is supposed to be stable. We ran thousands of calls with it without problem.

However, external dependancies like pulseaudio or ALSA are sometimes giving problems.

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Damien,

It is nice to point the finger at someone else, but I'm afraid this is ekiga's problem for 3.2.5 and 3.2.6. I have sent dumps to Yannick after moving to Ubuntu 9.10 from 9.04 with both releases containing NO sound and Windows followed suit. The last stable release of ekiga I've seen is 3.0.1

I even removed pulseaudio from 9.10 which did release SKYPE to select ALSA.

I have also told Yannick that Berkeleytips new Asterisk server works fine both audio and video which leads back to your SERVER.

I have been forced to return to SKYPE because it works.

Stu

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Re (2): Maybe was asked lot of time... what is the best platform for ekiga?

2009-12-03T09:16:23Z

Folk,

Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:09:59 +0100, Antonio P. wrote,
> The problem that I am facing is that, when I try to
> convince a potential corresondent to use SIP, I get
> the answer: Why should I bother with these programs
> that do not work when I have Skype that works flawlessly?

A realistic appraisal, and it can be generalized:
Why should I bother with another software which does
not work when I have Win*, or something running in it,
that works flawlessly?

> I think that the immediate goal should be to have a
> rock solid version of Ekiga that is stable on all
> the platforms and can assure interoperability between
> these platforms.

Absolutely sensible!

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Re: Maybe was asked lot of time... what is the best platform for ekiga?

2009-12-03T08:09:59Z

>
> Ekiga 3.2.6 is supposed to be stable. We ran thousands of calls with it
> without problem.
>
> However, external dependancies like pulseaudio or ALSA are sometimes
> giving problems.
>
>
I am using Ekiga 2.0.12 and Twinke 1.4.2 on Debian Lenny.
The last tests I did were
Corrispondent A
He is using ekiga 2.0.12 on Ubuntu 8.xx. Connection was perfect both audio and video.
Corrispondent B
He is using Ekiga 3.2.6 on Ubuntu 9.10. Connection was completely unsuccesful, he wasn't even able to preform the Echo test.
We finally had a good conversation unsing Twinkle on both sides.
Corrispondent C
He was trying to use Ekiga 3.2.6 on Windows XP, he had many problems and we were not able to speak. We had a fairly good conversation
when he swtched to sip-communicator.

The problem that I am facing is that, when I try to convince a potential corresondent to use SIP, I get the answer: Why should I bother with these programs that do not work when I have Skype that works flawlessly?

I think that the immediate goal should be to have a rock solid version of Ekiga that is stable on all the platforms and can assure interoperability between these platforms.

Is there a 2.0.12 package available for Ubuntu 9.10?
Is there a 2.0.12 package available for Windows XP?

I am available for tests of interoperability between 3.2.X and 2.0.12, just drop me a line.

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Re: Maybe was asked lot of time... what is the best platform for ekiga?

2009-12-03T03:48:17Z

Thats is why i was asking which platform can be stable.

Currently i am running Ubuntu 9.10. And i can send back any logs. Just
now i ve started it. And it was not appearing even on desktop or tray at
all. I believe it is stable somewhere. Soundcard, pulse server, etc.
Very difficult to match all platforms.

How can see some more logs? run from console?

On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 12:22 +0100, Damien Sandras wrote:

> Le jeudi 03 décembre 2009 à 11:14 +0000, Anres Moya a écrit :
> > Ok. I see now. The key is not not to use this (3) alpha version. Strange
> > it advertised on website. What is the best way to install stable
> > backport on ubuntu 9.10? Just few days with this system.
> >
> > linphone works with video. But it shows plain messages, so if other side
> > uses formated type i am reading all XML messages including "user typing
> > message" that is boring ;) My router changes headers so my kamailio deny
> > its requests with content-length mismatch. Connecting via VPN as
> > workaround ;) Hm, good idea to try Ekiga on VPN,
>
> Ekiga 3.2.6 is supposed to be stable. We ran thousands of calls with
> it without problem.
>
> However, external dependancies like pulseaudio or ALSA are sometimes
> giving problems.
>
>
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Re: Maybe was asked lot of time... what is the best platform for ekiga?

2009-12-03T03:22:46Z

Le jeudi 03 décembre 2009 à 11:14 +0000, Anres Moya a écrit :

Ok. I see now. The key is not not to use this (3) alpha version. Strange
it advertised on website. What is the best way to install stable
backport on ubuntu 9.10? Just few days with this system. 

linphone works with video. But it shows plain messages, so if other side
uses formated type i am reading all XML messages including "user typing
message" that is boring ;) My router changes headers so my kamailio deny
its requests with content-length mismatch. Connecting via VPN as
workaround ;) Hm, good idea to try Ekiga on VPN,

Ekiga 3.2.6 is supposed to be stable. We ran thousands of calls with it without problem.

However, external dependancies like pulseaudio or ALSA are sometimes giving problems.

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Re: Maybe was asked lot of time... what is the best platform for ekiga?

2009-12-03T03:14:26Z

Ok. I see now. The key is not not to use this (3) alpha version. Strange
it advertised on website. What is the best way to install stable
backport on ubuntu 9.10? Just few days with this system.

linphone works with video. But it shows plain messages, so if other side
uses formated type i am reading all XML messages including "user typing
message" that is boring ;) My router changes headers so my kamailio deny
its requests with content-length mismatch. Connecting via VPN as
workaround ;) Hm, good idea to try Ekiga on VPN,

On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 10:42 +0100, palama@... wrote:

> 2.0.12 has video support. Don't know about other differences.vb
> Regards,
> Antonio
>
> On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:51:13 +0000
> Anres Moya <andres.moya.i@...> wrote:
>
> > What is difference in this versions? video support?
> >
>

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