At the technical level for technical people... a LOT of things are easy. For the non-technical people... the things that appear "obvious" to us -- may not necessarily appear to be that way, regardless of the availability of STUN or outbound proxy.
The issue with most end users is quite simple. They want plug and play. The issue with most power users & Linux users -- is they want control and flexibility -- which they achieve by many means. What we power users & Linux users consider to be easy and enjoy doing, other people find it frustrating and stressful. STUN or an outbound proxy is useless in cases where the SIP traffic is absolutely blocked from the core of the internet service provider (which is the case in several countries we know first hand). Cheers! Reza. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Duane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Julian Sulatycki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 12:18 PM Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] VoIP Client that is quick to deploy or Web Based... Julian Sulatycki wrote: > The idea of extensions at home has also been very popular at my office > ever since I introduced the idea. I have tried using the iax soft phones > but people simply do not enjoy talking into a computer. > Given how complicated it is to deal with nat on sip remote extensions, > why are there not hundreds of iax hard phones available? What exactly is so hard about SIP and NAT connections, you either use an outbound proxy (which can get round multiple NATs btw), or you simply setup STUN. -- Best regards, Duane http://www.freeauth.org - Enterprise Two Factor Authentication http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom http://e164.org - Because e164.arpa is a tax on VoIP "In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
