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  1. Bug #316971
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Comment 44 for bug 316971

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Yannick Defais (sevmek) wrote : Re: [Jaunty] Ekiga's non free codec support isn't available in multiverse

Hi folks!

Additional information:

At the moment, OPAL do not support TCP connections for SIP. As a consequence of this, if you're using many codecs, it might happen (and I've saw several cases) OPAL is not able to built a UDP packet within all those codecs because the UDP size packet is fixed by your provider and it will be too small. The standard SIP solution for this issue is to autoswitch to TCP for the SIP negociation.

As you can see here:
http://www.opalvoip.org/wiki/index.php?n=Main.CurrentToDoList
upstream is aware of this issue and plan to fix it as a "Must do".

Until this is fixed upstream, I do not think it is a good idea to ship OPAL package including the whole codec bunch as Ekiga might silently fail.

To see if you're facing this issue you must run ekiga in debug mode ("ekiga -d 4") and check the output for "PDU is too large". Then you can workaround this by disabling some codecs in your Ekiga's preferences until the PDU is small enough for your particular configuration (which is ISP dependant). This is way too much for most Ubuntu users.

Best regards,
Yannick