Q re networking, might need guru
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu May 18 14:27:35 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 19:56 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> I'm still have one hell of a time with programs like skype or ekiga,
> where the incoming sound is chopped up and repeated in a long long echo
> that sounds like a stutterer after the 200th cup of coffee for the day.
>
> And its intermittent, I used skypeOUT this morning for about 10 minutes
> and it worked flawlessly for about 9, then it started this stuttering
> and eventually hung the connection up without my assistance.
>
> Looking at some traffic with tethereal (no thats not a typo, I asked yum
> to install ethereal and thats what I got) I note that it has to
> 'reassemble' the 'PDU' of the majority of the traffic flowing over wlan0.
>
> Now, I'm not familiar with a 'PDU', so I have no idea if this is related
> to an MTU miss-match or what. As this may have something to do with my
> skype/ekiga problems, is there anything I can adjust to alleviate this
> possibly erronious condition?
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene
This may not help but in the May 2006 issue of Linux Journal there is an
article, "Is Linux VoIP Ready" which discusses skype and ekiga. Page 80.
--
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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