RE: T.120 Conferencing through a firewall

[Pavlichek, Doris (GEIS, GE Capital Consulting)]

Interesting that Microsoft took great note of his paper -- for something
that was "paranoid" and based on "misinterpreted" information.
Isn't paranoia what firewalls are all about?  The level of paranoia is based
upon your company's security policy.
 
DP

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Cannell [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 7:28 PM
> To:   Firewall List
> Subject:      RE: T.120 Conferencing through a firewall
> 
> 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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