Hi all Today I am see in tcp and web socket packet there is audio traffic is found but I am not enable the audio I think by default audio is enable when guacamole is install .
Please guide us how to disable the audio communication from server to client and viceversa . I am using mysql authentication. On Sun, 16 Feb 2020, 14:30 ivanmarcus, <[email protected]> wrote: > In the Guacamole GUI there's a tickbox 'disable audio' > > You could also check this out: > > http://guacamole.apache.org/doc/gug/configuring-guacamole.html > > which explains how the audio works (and from that perhaps how you might > deal with it in your configuration). > > On 16/02/2020 12:05 p.m., Manoj Patil wrote: > > Hi > I agree to we can not send u un- encrypted traffic for checking but as per > discussion I ask you how to check at guacamole end if audio is enabled? And > if enabled then give me solution for disable the audio streaming > > On Thu, 13 Feb 2020, 22:19 Nick Couchman, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 9:03 AM Manoj Patil <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello Mike, >>> >>> We have investigate further and there in we found that there's an >>> continues ACK/SYN/PING traffic flows between server and client for an >>> absolutely idle session. >>> >>> >> Yes, this is by design - the Guacamole protocol has built-in mechanisms >> to verify that the connection is still active and prevent the server >> (guacd) from dropping the connection. However, as Mike stated, the amount >> of traffic generates solely for keeping alive an idle connection is very >> low - 17Kb/s - so it does not account for all of the traffic you are seeing >> - something else is going on. >> >> >>> Due to which number of packets and in turn data exchange >>> increases continuously for an absolutely idle session. >>> >> >> Absolutely idle is a little bit of a misnomer, here. If a session is in >> progress, it will *never* be "absolutely idle" - that is, there will always >> be some amount of minimal data exchange in order to keep the session alive >> - else it will shut down. This is true of pretty much any protocol - RDP, >> VNC, SSH, Telnet, and Guacamole - all will have some minimal amount of >> overhead client/server traffic even when there are no mouse/keyboard >> actions and the screen is not being updated. >> >> >>> >>> Can you please guide us on how to stop continues server PING/NOP/ACK/SYN >>> ? >>> >> >> No, this cannot be disabled without changing the code, and the result >> would be undesirable - the remote connection would shut down. And, this >> isn't a problem - again, the amount of data you're seeing shows that >> something else is going on aside from a completely idle connection. You >> might check and see if audio is being generated that would account for the >> higher bandwidth utilization, or if file sharing is enabled. >> >> And, as Mike said, in order to truly debug what's going on, here, you >> need to look at the traffic un-encrypted. This will allow you to see the >> actual Guacamole protocol packets that are being exchanged and figure out >> where the data is coming from. >> >> -Nick >> > >
