Timo Juhani Lindfors <[email protected]> > Perfectly well? At least with SIP it surely did not work from our > university where only outgoing tcp connections were allowed. I have > another place where the only way out is through a HTTP proxy. Ekiga did > not work there either. And at the same time everyone else was using > Skype and trying to get me to use it too.
It depends what you mean by "work". Is overriding the network's restrictions a feature or a bug? Feature to the user, but bug to the network managers. If the network is that nasty, shouldn't users be connecting to a VPN? Skype's firewall-busting is pretty extreme and seems to work a lot of the time, but I boycott Skype because I can't tell what it's doing, there have been enough bad reports that I don't trust it and the alternatives of SIP/RTP and XMPP work well enough for me for now. This is a rather old problem, which I covered back in http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2007/fsf so if anyone can solve it and help provide easy-to-use Free Software internet phones to more people, that's great to see. Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/ _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
