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Date:      Thu, 25 Apr 2002 14:58:20 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1020196700.f84616@mired.org>
To:        Oliver Brandmueller <ob@e-Gitt.NET>
Cc:        multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ohphone and firewalls.
Message-ID:  <15560.24540.557114.83302@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020425080343.GB435@e-Gitt.NET>
References:  <15559.29312.161244.188682@guru.mired.org> <20020425080343.GB435@e-Gitt.NET>

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In <20020425080343.GB435@e-Gitt.NET>, Oliver Brandmueller <ob@e-Gitt.NET> typed:
> Hi.
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 10:05:36PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > Anyone got pointers as to what it takes to get ohphone through a
> > firewall?
> Ohphone uses H.323 - you find a lot of pointers to it in the web,
> talking about ports and stuff. It's a little tricky, but it's possible.

Ok, I found a description for doing it with a FreeBSD firewall. It's
not pretty.

> But one thing: It does not work with NAT. H.323 encodes the originating
> IP in the protocol itself, so routing H.323 through NAT would require a
> NAT implementation aware of that protocol. FreeBSD's isn't. For Linux
> there's a module. Only way out with NAT would be using opengate_proxy as
> found in the ports as a gatekeeper.

The gatekeeper port seems to be broken - it's looking for
libh323_FreeBSD_x86_r.so.1, which doesn't exist on my system. I can't
seem to find a port that will create it for me, either.

	Thanx,
	<mike
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