Q re networking, might need guru

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu May 18 15:09:40 UTC 2006


Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 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.

I dunno if thats still on the newsstands here or not, but I'll check 
today.  Thanks.

-- 
Cheers, Gene




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