When I travel on business, I like to set up video chat to talk to my family at home. The problem is, home is behind a NAT firewall (a PIX to be exact). I have limited IP addresses and cannot spare one to statically assign to an endpoint inside my network for this purpose. Regardless, I'd like to be able to connect to any node in my network, depending on who I want to call. I never know what I'm going to be behind, but it's usually also some sort of NAT firewall that I do not control. I've tried ekiga (nee Gnome Meeting), and a few others with almost no luck. I thought something like skype (which doesn't support video under linux) or an instant messenger that uses an intermediary server (Yahoo, ICQ, etc.) to get around the NAT issues but none of those support video either. I've tried VPN to my PIX, but as I can't control where I'm coming from, I haven't been able to configure a reliable VPN client for linux. In short, when trying to video conference under linux, I'm successful around 5% of the time. It's almost always easier to boot into Windows and do it from there. What do you use for mobile video chat and how have you set it up?
