what kind of host dose app like that need
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Stuart D. Gathman <[email protected]>wrote: > You are right that skype just works, and this is a big win. Ekiga in some >> cases does not work, either because some structural limitations, or because >> of bugs. We are trying to fix the latter ones. >> >> If you wish help, just tell what you have tried and what does not work. >> > > Ekiga "just works" when NAT and firewalls get out of the way. In the > real world, it "just works" when there is a NAT aware VOIP service or > SIP proxy as an intermediary. Ekiga.net does not qualify - it just acts > as a broker for nodes to find each other. Ekiga "just works" with > diamondcard.us, nextiva.com, and other commercial VOIP services, without > any special firewall setup. This is because ekiga is connecting > to the service, instead of another node behind NAT. > > The problems people have are mostly with peer to peer operation, since > both parties are typically behind NAT. > > There are two or three things that can solve this problem for ekiga: > > 1) Easy to deploy asterix server to use as a SIP proxy - acting like > the commercial services. (It could be a commercial service - someone > has to pay for the bandwidth.) > > 2) Support IAX protocol in ekiga. IAX combines all the UDP ports used > in SIP and RTP into one UDP port, with a virtual port field in each > packet. This would give ekiga essentially the same plug&play peer > functionality of skype (without the monstrous security risk). > > 3) Support IP6 in ekiga. IP6 eliminates the NAT issues. There will > still be firewall issues, however both Windows and Linux support > dynamically updating the firewall (e.g. firewalld in Fedora), so > ekiga could automate that for the end user. > > Today, ekiga works well as an open source client for a wide variety of > commercial VOIP services. The company I used to work for replaced > phones with SIP service (aptela, then nextiva when new owners broke > aptela) years ago. This gives you a number of clients (including > ekiga), and a number of competing services to chose from. > ______________________________**_________________ > ekiga-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/**mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list<https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list> >
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