Some firewalls will allow incoming packets from an outside bridge to be sent to an inside node if that node first sends a packet to the outside bridge. This works well for rat (incoming audio occurs as soon as transmit is selected)
Vic doesn't work this way, at least not in AGTK 2.4. I can see video from participants inside firewalled networks but they can't see anyone else. I heard that AGTK 3 used a modified vic that sends out packets on all (both) ports and that would trigger firewalls to allow the incoming video. I downloaded just the AGTK-3.0.1 installer, ran it to have it copy the services zip files, and extracted vic from VideoService. Actually, I had someone (the network security administrator) inside the firewalled network do this and had him run this vic with voyage as the bridge server and use the udp port for the NCSA Lobby. No go. It worked for me but I'm on an open network. Should this standalone test have worked? Do the files have to be copied into the 2.4 directories before it will work? Joseph Stone Senior Informatics Manager Family Medicine Community Health, Medical School, Univ. of Minnesota Suite 220 Dinnaken 925 Delaware St. SE Minneapolis, MN 55414 (612) 624-3192 [email protected]
