Thanks for looking into this at all. I wasn't expecting this to be easy. If it was something that could be solved with a few hours of pounding one's head into solid objects, I would have done that already and put the solution up on my blog, along with a thank you to the responsible party for making me a little less sane. If an Ekiga developer can't explain log #1, that means I haven't lost all sanity just yet. :)
So I guess the solution for now is to experiment with the codecs. Have the user enable codecs one-by-one on a one-and-only-one basis, keep notes, and enable only those that will work. Not the best way to do things, but a work-around is a work-around. What I suspect is happening now: Ekiga established UDP connection Ekiga negotiates codecs with SIP server Ekiga uses first mutually-agreeable codec without checking if resulting UDP packet sizes might result in a drop Packets get dropped Ekiga says, "Hey, I tried!" User goes "WTF?" Devs grumble What I suspect will happen with TCP support: Ekiga negotiates TCP or UDP with SIP server If both are supported, Ekiga uses TCP because of the problems with UDP. Ekiga negotiates codecs with SIP server Ekiga uses first mutually-agreeable codec Packets get fragmented instead of dropped Ekiga works. Both users and devs happy happy Scenario I'm afraid of with TCP support: Ekiga negotiates UDP or TCP with SIP server Ekiga finds a UDP-only SIP server Ekiga negotiates codecs with SIP server Ekiga uses first mutually-agreeable codec without checking if resulting UDP packet sizes might result in a drop Packets get dropped Ekiga says, "Hey, I tried!" Users and devs both go, "WTF?" The addition of TCP support would definitely minimize the impact of UDP packet sizes, and admittedly knock the priority of the bug way down on the list due to that minimized impact. But someone, somewhere, is going to run into that last scenario. I'll bet an entire case of Monster (or your favorite) energy drinks on it. -- Ubuntu 9.04 Ekiga 3.2.0 If PDU is way larger than standard MTU (1500), even if local MTU is large enough (7000), connection timeout. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/380091 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to ekiga in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
