[H-GEN] NetMeeting

[Hilton Travis]

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Hi Michael,

I have looked thru the MS Knowledgebase (and lived) and they say that this
is a messy proceedure too.  NetMeeting 3.01 definately does use the H.323
protocol, and this protocol seems to open dynamic ports that are limited to
ALL unpriviledged ports - this sux.

I have tried running a program called PhonePatch on the Linux box, but I
cannot connect to port 1084 on this box (PhonePatch admin port), so I cannot
therefore configure this software.  My ipchains config has all ports open
from internal to universe, so I dunno why I cannot admin this software.

I have found an ip_masq_h3231 module (in source format) that I cannot
compile (I do not seem to have net/tcp.h, net/protocol.h nor net/ip_masq.h
(or so it reports, and I can confirm this!!!).  If anyone more knowledgable
than I (and that leaves it WIDE open) can tell me where to find the
necessary includes), then I'll try to compile this source to an object file
and see if I can get this happening.

I've tried the config listed in the URL below, with the same results - audio
goes out, doesn't come in.  I cannot receive video either.  :-(

Regards,
Hilton Travis

> I'm going from memory here and not checking any facts[1], but I
> believe the NetMeeting uses the H.323 protocol.  If that is the
> case, forget it, can't be done.  It uses multiple random ports
> to do its thing and last I checked there was no module
> available to get it working with ipmasq/ipchains.  Might be
> worth having a poke around and see if someone has come up with a
> module for it now though.  I believe the only other possible
> solution may be to port forward ALL ports from the gateway to
> the box in question for the duration of the connection.
>
> Well, I wrote that yesterday and visitors arrived before I sent
> it, so I have
> just looked up the Masq Apps page....
> http://www.tsmservices.com/masq/detailform.php3?132
> That gives instructions on using NetMeeting thru maasq.  It's messy.
>
> Cheers
> Michael Anthon
>
> [1] Cuase it's Christmas and I'm just too damned lazy
>
> Hilton Travis wrote:
>
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> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am trying to establish a NetMeeting call from a Win98 box on a LAN
> > connected to the Internet thru my Linux box running ipchains.
> The far end
> > can hear me, but I cannot receive audio or video.  Anyone know
> what I need
> > to massage to allow this to happen.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Hilton Travis
> >
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