On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:18:13AM -0700, David Burgess wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Rob Owens <row...@ptd.net> wrote: > > > Actually, I have managed to get multiple Ekiga instances on my LAN to > > work. I used avahi for this, per the advice of somebody on this list. > > Although I only tested communication within the LAN. I did not test > > simultaneous internet-based calls. > > > > I've also had multiple Ekiga accounts registered on a single client. > > Right, but the point that I'm trying to make is that there is a > fundamental difference between multiple accounts in Ekiga, and > multiple instances of Ekiga on a machine. When you attempt to run > multiple instances of Ekiga on a single machine (this includes the > standard LTSP scenario), they are not aware of each other, except to > notice that their port is not available. In the latter scenario, Ekiga > is aware of these multiple SIP accounts and can manage them and their > ports. > > Similarly, there is a fundamental difference between multiple > instances of Ekiga on a LAN, and multiple instances on a machine, > because whoever is doing NAT can recognize multiple IP addresses using > the same port and manage that with port rewriting. Where port > rewriting is not an option, a SIP proxy, such as siproxd can help with > this by managing the LAN ports pre-NAT. > > The easiest way I can see to manage this is to try running Ekiga as a > local app. Hopefully this will change the nature of the problem from > being multiple instances of Ekiga on a single host, to multiple > instances of Ekiga on a single LAN, which should be fundamentally > different as summarized above. > > Failing that, you may have to manually manage your SIP ports. > I agree with you. I'll have to look into local apps. I'm pretty sure my version of LTSP 5 doesn't support that, but I seem to remember later versions of LTSP 5 being backported to Debian Lenny.
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