Re: [Ekiga-list] Experimenting with telnet and Ekiga

[Genghis Khan <genghiskhan gmx ca>]

On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:25:21 +0100
Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr> wrote:

> On 26/01/12 19:52, Ken Resander wrote:
> > In the past I have used telnet for practising with protocols like
> > smtp, pop, ftp etc while reading the rfcs. For example, I could
> > connect via telnet to an smtp server by entering telnet
> > smtp.ntlworld 25 from the command line and then issue smtp commands
> > and view the smtp responses from the server. Very useful!
> >
> > I would like to use telnet with ekiga in a similar way, for example
> > by calling the echo test function at sip:500 ekiga net, issue
> > INVITE, ACK, BYE etc and observe what happens. I tried connecting
> > by entering: $ telnet ekiga.net Trying 86.64.162.35... telnet:
> > Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> >
> > and also:
> >
> > $ telnet ekiga.net 5060
> > Trying 86.64.162.35...
> > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
> >
> > but could get not beyond this point.
> 
> Contrary to the protocols you used in the past which use TCP, SIP is 
> generally based on UDP, and ekiga.net uses UDP exclusively.  As such, 
> telnet does not work.
> 
I don't understand the context of these emails but I think that it will
be ok to point out that TCP Support for SIP is in progress
http://www.ekiga.org/roadmap (I hope that it has something to do with
your messages)

> If you want to play with, you can either use a script like the one 
> presented at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=529082#c1, or 
> better use tiny programs doing configurable client and server work, I
> do not remember what is their name...
>