[nzlug] Ekiga vs DSL modem?

[Simon Lyall]

I've been spending a little time trying to get the Ekiga phone software 
working. I'm a little stuck though.

The Basic software works ( Damn you Ubuntu for turning off Microphones by 
default ) but the problem I have is getting it to talk to the outside 
world.

My home Network is Behind an Xtra D-Link DSL 302G modem which I talk to 
via Ethernet and which NATs my computers. When I try and setup Ekiga it 
reports that I am behind a "Symmetric NAT" which is a bit of a problem, see:

http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Ekiga_behind_a_NAT_router

The Router doesn't support STUN but I had a go at adding some redirect 
rules for ports 5000-5100 and 3478-3479 to my workstation but that doesn't 
seem to do the trick.

I was wondering if anyone else was using this sort of Modem/setup and how 
they got things going?

I also tried using siproxd on a machine which I forward (via openvpn) an 
external IP to. But while that method connects and brings calls up the 
actual voip packets seem to get blocked somewhere.

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