On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 03:22:13AM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > I was wondering if anyone have heard about a router box that also has > skype capabilities (I'm not talking about a router which can forward > traffic).
A while ago I posted a comment to this list about a box which was "made" by a company called CIDAV that had a USB connection to a computer and Skype drivers for windows. They never answered my email about Linux drivers. The device it turns out is made in China and sold on the internet under at least a dozen names all over the world. None of the dealers nor the manufacturer had linux drivers for it. If it truely is a router, then it does not matter what operating system you use as long as it not configured using a closed source tool. One would hope that it configured using a web browser, but check. Make sure that the firmware update funcions can be done from the web broswer. Skype changes their code fairly often (at least on X86 processors) and I doubt the unit will function in a year without an upgrade. > If not, has anyone tried Skype for Linux under a really low end > hardware? what are the results? Is Skype necessary? There are several free SIP (open standard) proxies on the web, the best known is Jeff Pulver's Free World Dialup, there is also a busy one in the San Francisco bay area. They work with any "softphone" some of which are open source. If you want an incoming landline or connections to "the real world", there are MANY services out there now. In the last few weeks there has been a "race to the bottom" for outgoing call rates. There are lots of things that bother me about Skype which are not germain to this list, however there is one that really needs to be considered. Skype functions as if it were a peer-to-peer application (or so they claim, it's closed source with no public design documentation), so many people carry your traffic and you carry others. I've never been able to find out, or figure out who much of my net traffic is Skype, even when I'm not using it and it sits idle. I expect that since Skype runs on a NAT'ed machine behind a firewall, not much, but a router would not be. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 IL Fax: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 The trouble with being a futurist is that when people get around to believing you, it's too late. We lost. Google 2,000,000:Hams 0. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
