[TriLUG] DirecPC and VoIP (Kinda OT)

[Michael Thompson]

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I was also a DPC sufferer, but I was able to create a Linux network with
my old Sat-down/Dialup-up DPC by using Windows connection sharing from
an old box, then putting it on the outside of my Linux firewall and of
course putting all my linux boxes inside.  iirc, I had to use some NAT
on the firewall, and used zonealarm for the windows box.  Worked great
(well, as great as DirecPC *will* work) for a couple of years until
thankfully, I got cable in my area.  There is an app out there that
allows Linux to connect to the DPC modem directly, and use the dial-up
uplink, but it was around $400 iirc, and I already had an extra machine
so I opted for the Winders solution.

BTW, if anyone is interested in a DirecPC Sat modem, I have one without
dish I'd be willing to part with, make me an offer...  :)  (The DPC dish
gives us better reception on our satellite, dunno why...)

I realize this post is OT from the original post, but it may be useful
to someone else...

:) -- mike

Tarus Balog wrote:
|
| On Aug 3, 2004, at 11:04 AM, Aaron Caudle wrote:
|
|> Background:
|> I installed a VoIP phone down in Haiti last October and was
|> successfull in getting it running.  It connects back to a gateway in
|> Asheville at the company I work for.  Its connected by a Huges
|> Satellite connection (DirecPC).  The satellite has a built in gateway
|> that does simple NAT, but is unable to do any port forwarding etc.
|> Soon after I left, they begin experiencing problems, starting with
|> only one way communications - they could hear, but we could not hear
|> them, to then being unable to connect at all.
|
|
| I was a DirecPC sufferer for three years, so mebbe I can help.
|
| What do you mean when you say "gateway"? I assume this is the later
| version of DirecPC (3.0 I think they called it). White dish versus
| gray, and two-way transmission versus satellite return.
|
| When I used DirecPC, you had to have a Windows box running the DirecPC
| software. In other words, the satellite had coax that ran to the
| "modem", and the "modem" connected to the Windows box via USB.
|
| Now - Windows "Internet connection sharing" and DirecPC seemed to work
| fine - for Windows systems. The moment you put a non-Windows box into
| the mix (I was running multiple Linux boxen, a Solaris box and a Mac)
| you could get some connectivity as long as it was short (a ping, a DNS
| lookup), but the moment you tried to download anything of size (and by
| "size" I mean 100K) it would stall and timeout.
|
| I ended up buying Deerfield's windows gateway software that allowed me
| to proxy everything through the Windows box. That worked. But for the
| non-standard protocols (outside of FTP and HTTP for example) I had to
| set up a SOCKS proxy or else the connection would just stop working.
| PITA, but I had no other option.
|
| So, let me know how you are connecting to the DirecPC network, and
| mebbe we can figure this out.
|
| -T
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