Now, regaring Mr. Shenton's article regarding NetMeeting.
I've read a couple of versions of this in the past and have provided my
thoughts on them to the NetMeeting mailing list (check
http://www.meetingbywire.com) so I won't go into too much detail here.
Basically I think Mr. Shenton is a little too paranoid. Life is full of
risks and NetMeeting application collaboration is just one more in a big
long line of them. 'nuff said.
Mr. Shenton also basis his premises regarding H.323 and firewalls on two
usenet posts made by someone in Raptor. I don't recall all of the specifics
now (and I will not read the article again) but he basically misinterpreted
those remarks. If he had bothered to do his own research he would have found
that H.323 best traverses a firewall via an H.323 proxy. At the time I first
read this article I couldn't find any commercially available H.323 proxies
but Intel did have some nice articles on their website regaring the subject
(including a description of an H.323 proxy it had running in their labs).
Since then, however, H.323 proxies have showed up on the market.
One notable product is PhonePatch available at http://www.equival.com/ (best
part, its cheap and runs under Win95/98/NT, Linux, and Solaris). It's not
strictly a h.323 proxy but it is still pretty cool!
Larry
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