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GNU Gatekeeper 4.2 released
by Jan Willamowius 31 May '16

31 May '16

Hi, I'm happy to announce the release of GNU Gatekeeper 4.2. Version 4.2 is mainly a bug fix release. A bug in proxying H.239 connections through NAT has been fixes as well as a number of possible crashes and a few other small bugs. The main functional change is that GnuGk's old NAT traversal method is now disabled by default. Everybody should use H.460.x. If you want keep using the old NAT traversal method, you can re-enable it with [RoutedMode] EnableGnuGkNATTraversal=1 [Endpoint] EnableGnuGkNATTraversal=1. You can download the new version from http://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html Please see the full change log attached below. Enjoy! -- Jan Willamowius, Founder of the GNU Gatekeeper Project EMail : jan(a)willamowius.de Website: http://www.gnugk.org Support: http://www.willamowius.com/gnugk-support.html Relaxed Communications GmbH Frahmredder 91 22393 Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Jan Willamowius HRB 125261 (Amtsgericht Hamburg) USt-IdNr: DE286003584 Changes from 4.1 to 4.2 ======================= - BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) fix H.239 forwarding issue in call where only one side uses H.460.19 - BUGFIX(configure.in) make sure LUA test fails for versions below 5.2 - BUGFIX(gkh235.cxx) small fix with password auth - BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) apply codec filtering also to receiveAndTransmit capabilities - BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) fix crash in RTP multiplexing - BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) fix crash when using H.245 tunneling translation - BUGFIX(gk.cxx) fix shutdown on NetBSD 7 - BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) fix compile on NetBSD 7 - new switch: [RoutedMode] FilterVideoFastUpdatePicture= to reduce the number of update requests from endpoints - disable SSLv3 when using TLS - BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) fix crash in call cleanup - support ON and OFF event in LuaAcct - BUGFIX(sqlacct.*) implement ON and OFF event as documented - new switches [RoutedMode] EnableGnuGkNATTraversal=1 and [Endpoint] EnableGnuGkNATTraversal=1 to keep GnuGk's old NAT traversal method enabled

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hi
by 陈炳锡-阳阳谷信息科技 26 May '16

26 May '16

hi is it a bug of OpenH323? i have a problem in using openh323, in the OpenH323 transmission channel, i am send more than 65K of the size of the data, it will not be sent out.

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GNU Gatekeeper Survey 2016
by Jan Willamowius 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

Dear GnuGk community, I have compiled a quick survey where you can indicate what you like about GnuGk and what is missing. Please feel free to add any other suggestions you may have. http://www.gnugk.org/survey-2016.html In the past, these surveys have always been a great inspiration. Thanks for your time! Jan -- Jan Willamowius, Founder of the GNU Gatekeeper Project EMail : jan(a)willamowius.de Website: http://www.gnugk.org Support: http://www.willamowius.com/gnugk-support.html Relaxed Communications GmbH Frahmredder 91 22393 Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Jan Willamowius HRB 125261 (Amtsgericht Hamburg) USt-IdNr: DE286003584

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h323plus text messaging
by Leonardo Nahra 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

Hello, I'm working on a conference project,and we will use the H.323 protocol to establish a connection between monitors, so they can exchange information about configuration options of the video stream they'll receive. So, once a call is established, in addition of exchanging video and audio (that we already have implemented apart), configuration options need to be sent in text format back and forth. Searching through h323plus I couldn't find a way to send text in a call, can you give me some pointers on how to accomplish that? Thanks, Nahra.

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GNU Gatekeeper 4.1 released
by Jan Willamowius 16 Feb '16

16 Feb '16

Hi, I'm happy to announce the availability of GNU Gatekeeper 4.1. This is mainly a bug fix release. If you are using GnuGk as a server in a traversal zone or if you do H.239 presentations with Avaya endpoints, you are strongly encouraged to update. This version also fixes a memory leak that mainly affects long running gatekeepers with a lot of RAS traffic. Some of the bugs were long standing, so if you skipped some previous releases, this is really a good time to update. The main new feature in this release is expanded LUA support. Besides LUA authentication and LUA routing, there is now a LuaAcct module that allows you to run a script on every accounting event of your choice. Please see the updated manual for details. You can download the new version from http://www.gnugk.org/h323download.html Please see the full change log attached to the end of this mail. My support website https://www.willamowius.com also got a face lift. Please check it out as well. Enjoy! -- Jan Willamowius, Founder of the GNU Gatekeeper Project EMail : jan(a)willamowius.de Website: http://www.gnugk.org Support: http://www.willamowius.com/gnugk-support.html Relaxed Communications GmbH Frahmredder 91 22393 Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Jan Willamowius HRB 125261 (Amtsgericht Hamburg) USt-IdNr: DE286003584 Changes from 4.0 to 4.1 ======================= - BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) fix crash processing Setup - BUGFIX(RasSrv.cxx) update IP/port of traversal neighbor on every SCI, not only on IP changes - new status port command: PrintNeighbors - BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) fix H.239 inside multiplePayloadStream from Avaya XT5000 with H.460.19 - new accounting module: LuaAcct - LUA: new library "gnugk" to allow access to GnuGk functionality - BUGFIX(configure) set all detected options in gnugkbuildopts.h on Unix - BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) removing H.235 capabilities might have skipped items - BUGFIX(lua.cxx) initialize all LUA variables for LUA routing - status port configuration (MaxStatusClients, StatusEventBacklog, StatusEventBacklogRegex) now changable at runtime - BUGFIX(GkStatus.cxx) fix StatusEventBacklogRegex for patterns that start at the beginning of the event line - BUGFIX(ProxyChannel.cxx) use RealPresence Group 0-Byte keep-alive for IgnoreSignaledH239PrivateIPs (needs LARGE_FDSET to work) - new switches to set database connect and read timeout (only used by MySQL for now) - new switch to set worker thread idle timeout: [Gatekeeper::Main] WorkerThreadIdleTimeout= - BUGFIX(gk.cxx) better test for gatekeeper shutdown - BUGFIX(Routing.cxx) fix fromIP for ARQ and LRQ RouteRequests - BUGFIX(gkauth.cxx) only call Q.931 checks when activated - BUGFIX(Routing.cxx) fix RouteRequest from unregistered caller who doesn't provide any alias - new switch: [RoutedMode] DisableSettingUDPSourceIP=1

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Issue with H.263 codecs set
by Iurii Gordiienko 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hi all, I need an advice - how to work with set of H.263 codecs. Basically, I have all H.263 codec types capability implemented: H.263, H.263-1998 and H.263-2000. All these capabilities uses same H245_VideoCapability::e_h263VideoCapability value for GetSubType function. In result my localCapabilities variable has all these 3 capabilities as well. When I receiving remote capabilities the remoteCapabilities variable is loading by H323Capabilities::H323Capabilities(const H323Connection & connection, const H245_TerminalCapabilitySet & pdu) constructor and the function uses code like this (simplified): H323Capability * capability = localCapabilities.FindCapability(pdu.m_capabilityTable[i].m_capability, capabilityNo, pdu); if (capability != NULL) { H323Capability * copy = (H323Capability *)capability->Clone(); copy->SetCapabilityNumber(capabilityNo); if (copy->OnReceivedPDU(pdu.m_capabilityTable[i].m_capability)) table.Append(copy); else delete copy; } The main issue - localCapabilities.FindCapability function returns any first H.263 Capability from it's table, no matter which particular H.263 remote Capability was used, it only checks MainType and SubType... In result if remote side send me, for example, H.263-1998, but I have H.263 and H.263-1998 - I will have H.263 in result... Now I'm trying to override Connection::OnReceivedCapabilitySet(const H245_TerminalCapabilitySet & pdu) function, extract H.263 codecs manually, store all these capabilities and update remoteCapabilities after, but may be exists a proper solution for this case? Thanks -- Iurii Gordiienko

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Bug inH323Capabilities::Remove(H323Capability*)
by Iurii Gordiienko 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

Hi, I found a bug - H323Capabilities::Remove function will skip item when doing .RemoveAt operation. In result I have had a crash (in line if (set[outer][middle][inner].GetCapabilityNumber() == capabilityNumber)) for some sets of capabilities. I can't understand why the crash is occurs but in any way... Original code: void H323Capabilities::Remove(H323Capability * capability) { if (capability == NULL) return; PTRACE(3, "H323\tRemoving capability: " << *capability); unsigned capabilityNumber = capability->GetCapabilityNumber(); for (PINDEX outer = 0; outer < set.GetSize(); outer++) { for (PINDEX middle = 0; middle < set[outer].GetSize(); middle++) { for (PINDEX inner = 0; inner < set[outer][middle].GetSize(); inner++) { if (set[outer][middle][inner].GetCapabilityNumber() == capabilityNumber) { set[outer][middle].RemoveAt(inner); break; } } if (set[outer][middle].GetSize() == 0) set[outer].RemoveAt(middle); } if (set[outer].GetSize() == 0) set.RemoveAt(outer); } My fix: void H323Capabilities::Remove(H323Capability * capability) { if (capability == NULL) return; PTRACE(3, "H323\tRemoving capability: " << *capability); unsigned capabilityNumber = capability->GetCapabilityNumber(); for (PINDEX outer = 0; outer < set.GetSize(); ) { for (PINDEX middle = 0; middle < set[outer].GetSize(); ) { for (PINDEX inner = 0; inner < set[outer][middle].GetSize(); inner++) { if (set[outer][middle][inner].GetCapabilityNumber() == capabilityNumber) { set[outer][middle].RemoveAt(inner); break; } } if (set[outer][middle].GetSize()) ++middle; else set[outer].RemoveAt(middle); } if (set[outer].GetSize()) ++outer; else set.RemoveAt(outer); } Thanks -- Iurii Gordiienko

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Double-delete Capability bug
by Iurii Gordiienko 25 Jan '16

25 Jan '16

Hi, I have found something... For H323ExtendedVideoCapability::AddAllCapabilities function we are using H323CodecExtendedVideoCapability::AddCapability function for extCapability->AddCapability(*r). H323CodecExtendedVideoCapability::AddCapability function uses extCapabilities.Add(H323ExtendedVideoFactory::CreateInstance(cap)) function. The function H323ExtendedVideoFactory::CreateInstance(cap) will call "new" if any same "cap" does not is exists for now< for other case it will return the pointer to current actual Capability. But H323CodecExtendedVideoCapability::extCapabilities will delete all items in time of execution extCapabilities.RemoveAll() function from H323CodecExtendedVideoCapability::~H323CodecExtendedVideoCapability(). In result we have "double delete" and undefined behavior (crash for worst case). -------------------------------- void H323ExtendedVideoCapability::AddAllCapabilities( H323Capabilities & basecapabilities, PINDEX descriptorNum,PINDEX simultaneous) { H323ExtendedVideoFactory::KeyList_T extCaps = H323ExtendedVideoFactory::GetKeyList(); if (extCaps.size() > 0) { H323CodecExtendedVideoCapability * capability = new H323CodecExtendedVideoCapability(); H323ExtendedVideoFactory::KeyList_T::const_iterator r; PINDEX num = P_MAX_INDEX; for (r = extCaps.begin(); r != extCaps.end(); ++r) { H323CodecExtendedVideoCapability * extCapability = (H323CodecExtendedVideoCapability *)capability->Clone(); extCapability->AddCapability(*r); num = basecapabilities.SetCapability(descriptorNum, simultaneous,extCapability); simultaneous = num; } simultaneous = P_MAX_INDEX; basecapabilities.SetCapability(descriptorNum, simultaneous,new H323ControlExtendedVideoCapability()); delete capability; } } void H323CodecExtendedVideoCapability::AddCapability(const PString & cap) { extCapabilities.Add(H323ExtendedVideoFactory::CreateInstance(cap)); } ------------------------------------------------- I propose to replace the "void H323CodecExtendedVideoCapability::AddCapability(const PString & cap)" to this one: void H323CodecExtendedVideoCapability::AddCapability(const PString & cap) { extCapabilities.Add(H323ExtendedVideoFactory::CreateInstance(cap)->clone()); } Thanks -- Iurii Gordiienko

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H323EndPoint::ParsePartyName issue
by Iurii Gordiienko 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

Hi, I'm working with ForwardCall functional and have found a bug if we have forward URL which contains PORT number. For example, for h323:@192.168.1.1:1726 input string H323EndPoint::ParsePartyName will make address string like ip$192.168.1.1:1726:1726. The fix is trivial (may be I've not covered all cases): // get the various parts of the name PString hostOnly = PString(); PINDEX userPos = remoteParty.Find('@'); if (userPos != P_MAX_INDEX) { if (gatekeeper != NULL) alias = url.AsString(); else { alias = remoteParty.Left(userPos); PINDEX portPos = remoteParty.FindLast(':', portPos + 1); PINDEX len = (portPos != P_MAX_INDEX) ? (portPos - userPos - 1) : P_MAX_INDEX; hostOnly = remoteParty.Mid(userPos+1, len); } } else { alias = url.GetUserName(); hostOnly = url.GetHostName(); } address = hostOnly; Also we have similar issue for input string without '@' character. In this case PTLIB::PURL class wrong parse the string (uses 192.168.1.1:1726:1726 as USER). To fix this issue we need look PTLIB::PURL class futher. Thanks -- Iurii Gordiienko

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Twice H323Connection::Unlock() call issue
by Iurii Gordiienko 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

Hi, I have found a bug with twice H323Connection::Unlock() call if we have an connection issue. Take a look: 1.We are running connection.SendSignalSetup function from H225CallThread::Main() and if it returns any reason!=H323Connection::EndedByCallerAbort we will Unlock the connection. void H225CallThread::Main() { PTRACE(3, "H225\tStarted call thread"); if (connection.Lock()) { H323Connection::CallEndReason reason = connection.SendSignalSetup(alias, address); // Special case, if we aborted the call then already will be unlocked if (reason != H323Connection::EndedByCallerAbort) connection.Unlock(); // bla-bla-bla } 2.But we have case when connection.SendSignalSetup returns non H323Connection::EndedByCallerAbort reason but has own unlocked state - for this case PTLIB will unlock the mutex twice with assert (as minimum) message. H323Connection::SendSignalSetup(const PString & alias, const H323TransportAddress & address) { //bla-bla-bla // Release the mutex as can deadlock trying to clear call during connect. Unlock(); PBoolean connectFailed = false; if (!signallingChannel->IsOpen()) { signallingChannel->SetWriteTimeout(100); connectFailed = !signallingChannel->Connect(); } // See if transport connect failed, abort if so. if (connectFailed) { connectionState = NoConnectionActive; switch (signallingChannel->GetErrorNumber()) { case ENETUNREACH : return EndedByUnreachable; case ECONNREFUSED : return EndedByNoEndPoint; case ETIMEDOUT : return EndedByHostOffline; } return EndedByConnectFail; } } Thanks -- Iurii Gordiienko

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