[AG-TECH] macbook pro video (vic) troubles

[Andrew A Rowley]

Hi,

The port displayed within vic is the receiving port.  The sending port can be found by running some tool that displays which applications are using which ports (Active Ports for Windows seems good).

Andrew :)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On
> Behalf Of Enrique Terrazas
> Sent: 07 February 2007 15:57
> To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Cc: matt at netera.ca; kdhewitt at netera.ca; Andrew.Rowley at manchester.ac.uk;
> Howard Leong; R. P. Channing Rodgers, M.D.
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] macbook pro video (vic) troubles
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having the same problem in a firewall situation myself.  In the
> VIC window I can see the port assigned and verify that it is within
> the allowable range on the firewall.  From the explanation below, it
> would appear the the port on the VIC window is the sending port.  Is
> there an easy way to verify which is the receiving port to make sure
> that it is within the allowable range?
> 
> Enrique Terrazas
> 
> On Feb 7, 2007, at 3:01 AM, Andrew A Rowley wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > This kind of sounds like a firewall problem.  RAT uses the same
> > port for send and receive and so may poke a return path on the
> > firewall for incoming traffic.  Vic uses different ports for
> > sending from receiving, and so doesn't do this.  The odd thing
> > about this is that it works when you close the video consumer
> > service - I have never known that to work, but maybe it sends out a
> > packet from the receive socket as it closes?
> >
> > Andrew :)
> >
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> > Email: Andrew.Rowley at manchester.ac.uk
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On
> >> Behalf Of Matthew Clarkson
> >> Sent: 06 February 2007 21:34
> >> To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> >> Cc: kdhewitt at netera.ca
> >> Subject: [AG-TECH] macbook pro video (vic) troubles
> >>
> >> I'm have 2 of the newer macbook pro's (core 2 duo) which are
> >> causing me
> >> video problems.  These are both being run off a unicast network and
> >> using a bridge for the connection.
> >> I can configure the the hardware and software which runs properly
> >> locally.  However I can't view other peoples video in vic (I
> >> can hear and see them in rat, but their video does not show up in
> >> vic).
> >> I have tried using a single VideoService like most of my other
> >> personal
> >> nodes, but this only displays the capture source, I have then
> >> setup both
> >> VideoConumerService & VideoProducerService, but the
> >> VideoConsumerService
> >> instance of vic stays blank.  It is only when I remove
> >> VideoConsumerService from my node that the VideoProducerService
> >> displays
> >> all offsite video streams, which I then have to unmute to view.  This
> >> setup is, however, not stable and does not work all the time.
> >> Has anyone else experienced any problems similar to this, and if
> >> so, is
> >> there a solution to it at this time?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Matthew Clarkson
> >> Netera Alliance Inc.
> >>
> >
> 
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