Dear Friends,
Please bear with me as I am a newbie in networking, yet I am trying to set Ofmeet at my office to prevent the use of commercial VC software (and maybe to add some cool features).
Right now I have it working pretty well on Linux Mint using Openfire 3.10 nightly build with the latest Ofmeet plugin installed. It works just fine within my LAN and others (in the LAN) can access the rooms by going to https://192.168.1.1:7443/ofmeet/?r={roomname}. This series is also connected to the internet through a firewall that opens into the internet from the IP 14.XXX.YYY.ZZZ (public IP). I now have to get it working so that people from outside can access my ofmeet application.
This would be an easy task for all the network people I guess because I find a lot of queries, but no elaborate solutions to help those of us who are just stuck. I get that I need to use NAT so that all traffic looking for ofmeet on my public IP gets redirected to my local machine. Please help me with the following queries:
- Will I have to make any changes on my Firewall (apart from ensuring that the UDP ports 5000-6000 are open)?
- I found the sip-communicator.properties file in /var/lib/openfire/plugins/ofmeet and found it to be empty. As suggested, I added the following lines:
org.jitsi.impl.neomedia.transform.srtp.SRTPCryptoContext.checkReplay=false org.jitsi.**videobridge**.NAT_HARVESTER_LOCAL_ADDRESS=<Local.IP.Address> org.jitsi.**videobridge**.NAT_HARVESTER_PUBLIC_ADDRESS=<Public.IP.Address>
My queries are: does the “videobridge” need to be changed to “ofmeet” or anything (now that the plugin is called ofmeet)? Plus, is the properties file supposed to be empty?
- If things are set right, what is the address at which the people in the outside network will be able to access my ofmeet page? Will it be of the form: https://14.XXX.YYY.ZZZ:7443/ofmeet/?r={roomname} or something else (without port number)?
Sorry if I am missing anything very obvious and simple. But, any kind of help would be much appreciated.
Cheers!