On 25 Jul 2000, Rhett R. Rodewald wrote:
> Anyone get MiamiDx working with one of those free telephone services? A
> friend of mine recommended Dialpad.com -- but I can't seem to make it work
> with MiamiDx. They have recommendataions on their site for making it work
> with a number of firewall/IP-NAT systems, but despite poking the right holes
> in the firewall (and even disabling it completely) it doesn't seem to work.
>
> Outgoing sound works fine -- I can call a number, and they can hear me --
> but I can't hear them.
>
> I didn't get very far with MiamiTCPDump either; packets sent look like this:
>
> 09:21:42.844222 Shelly.1202 > fa0.washdc3-egw14.bbnplanet.net.0: udp 32
Better to use -n to see what you're really dealing with. The .0 can't
really be right.
> but I don't see any packets returning. There are lots of lines that look
> like:
>
> 09:21:53.067659 [|tcp] (DF)
I've never seen that, but you could always turn on the hex output.
Which interface are you looking on? You have to look at the net side to
see the stuff that didn't make it through IP-NAT.
> -- but I'm not sure what those are -- they don't seem to have any source/dest
> info -- so perhaps the remote server isn't even returning the packets to my
> LAN at all??? Or is it just in some indecipherable format that MiamiTCPDump
> doesn't understand? Since dialpad has instructions to make this work with a
> number of systems (including Linux IP-NAT) I figure it should be possible to
> route through MiamiDx.
I expect you might need one or more redirection entries, as well as
possibly some firewall adjustments.
> Anyway, Dialpad seems quite reasonable -- they don't require too much
> personal info -- primarily a name and e-mail address (and you can get a
> ...uh... "unique" address from yahoo or similar to help protect your
> privacy.) They just display your typical banner adds in the dialing window.
> Other than that, you can call from any Windows computer to any phone in the
> US for free. (You can also call worldwide PC to PC for free.) The software
> is a 170K Java program, which is currently Windows only, but they are working
> on other versions. (Mac is next) I don't know how standardized sound card
> access is under Java -- I assume that is why it isn't automatically
> multi-platform.
Don't hold your breath for an Amiga version. :-)
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Cowdall, Ben wrote:
>
> Maybe it is the same reason M$ Netmeeting wont work thru NAT enabled
> networks? ;)
AIUI NetMeeting does work with SOCKS. See my other post for PC SOCKS
clients.
Fred Wright
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