how can i unsubscribe from this list pls Le sam. 1 déc. 2018 à 20:45, Stuart D. Gathman <[email protected]> a écrit :
> On Sun, 2 Dec 2018, Bret Busby via ekiga-list wrote: > > > On 02/12/2018, Damien Sandras <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Due to the lack of time, and to the last outages, I have taken the > >> decision to discontinue EKIGA.NET before the end of the year. > > > I am wondering whether, given that Ekiga is said to be open source, > > rather than, as its owner, simply shutting it down, it would not be > > more appropriate and consistent with the (perceived) nature of open > > source,, to seek a new group of people, to take it on, for the sake of > > its continuance. > > Ekiga.net is not needed for peer to peer calls. It is only to help > out unfortunate souls still in IP4 NAT jail because they haven't learned > how to join the IP6 world. ISPs will never offer IP6. You have to > peer with friends and/or sign up with a general tunnel broker like > he.net. > > There are other sites offering free IP4 SIP call brokering (generally > charging for POTS connections to make their money). > > I moved to Linphone (another open source SIP client) because it > supported IPv6. Peer to peer SIP really requires IPv6. > > The Cjdns IPv6 mesh VPN allows authenticated, encrypted peer to peer calls > anywhere in the world without any exchange of certs, etc, and a device > keeps its IP as it moves around. The IPv6 is a hash of the public key > of the node. > > Even without a VPN, IPv6 allows direct peer to peer without needing > a public IP4 or a centralized site to help with all the NAT workarounds. > > Ekiga does a number of things better than linphone (e.g. addressbook). > But the lack of IPv6 was a deal killer. There were efforts to > add IPv6 support to ekiga, but never finished that I was aware of. > Actually, IPv6 support in Linphone is a pain - it can't listen on > IP4 (for commercial SIP to POTS services) and IP6 simultaneously. > You have to switch back and forth in preferences. Ekiga could do it so > much better. > > -- > Stuart D. Gathman <[email protected]> > "Confutatis maledictis, flamis acribus addictis" - background song for > a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial. > _______________________________________________ > ekiga-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list >
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