firewalld and Ekiga

[Basil Mohamed Gohar]

On 12/27/2012 10:09 AM, Antonio wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> Currently I use the latest version of Ekiga on Fedora 18 Spherical Cow.
> My internet connection implicates an outdoor antenna equipped with a
> management software that includes a firewall (as well as other
> services like NAT, UPnP, DDNS, ...); this firewall has been configured
> to allow the SIP calls from and to Ekiga according to these
> information http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Internet_ports_used_by_Ekiga.
>
> Even the firewall of Fedora is actived but it doesn't seem affect
> Ekiga work although its ports are not open nor any SIP services are
> permitted.
>
> The current enabled zone is 'home':
>
> home
>   interfaces: wlan0
>   services: ipp-client mdns dhcpv6-client ssh samba-client
>   ports:
>   forward-ports:
>   icmp-blocks:
>
> In your opinion, is it a correct behavior when Ekiga works although
> firewalld closes all ports ?
>
> Thanks.
>
Antonio,

If your SIP connection is using a STUN server, then it is possible.