Re: [Linphone-users] Re: IPv6 and eXosip_guess_ip_for_via()

[Kannaiyan]

Petr,

I guess it is from the eXosip.
There is a possibility of supplying own ip address in eXosip too, may not be
directly but through the socket.

Kannaiyan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Petr Pisar" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 12:18 AM
Subject: [Linphone-users] Re: IPv6 and eXosip_guess_ip_for_via()


> On 2006-12-18, Simon Morlat <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Actually it is not trying to connect.  It just does a connect() system
> > call on a udp socket to this ip address, which just has the effect of
> > setting the local address of the socket. No packets are going to
> > 2001:638:500:101:2e0:81ff:fe24:37c6.  This local address is then
> > retrieved to be used in SIP and SDP messages.  The
> > 2001:638:500:101:2e0:81ff:fe24:37c6 is actually a randomly choosen
> > public IP address. The goal of this lookup is to find the local
> > interface (ip address) that is able to communicate with the public
> > internet.
>
> Simon, I appriciate your effort to make linphone easy-to-use, but
> sometimes it
> hurts. Like in this case. Let's say you have multihomed host or network
> without default gateway. You can have thousand reasons why the "public"
> IP is not reachable. And then linphone uses bad IP address.
>
> Could you make this IP configurable per SIP proxy? Sure, you can keep
> the autoguess functionality, but some override mechanism would be nice.
>
> -- Petr
>
>
>
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