On Sunday 01 June 2003 15:30, Jim Jarvie wrote: > Try Gnu Gatekeeper (www.gnugk.org). >
Aha - last time I looked around for such a thing, openH323 was still in early stage of development - but I see the GnuGK is at least aware of NAT. I don't think I need a full blown gatekeeper yet though. Still I shall investigate more. > Alternatively, you can set up a FreeSWAN tunnel (www.freeswan.org) and > treat the remote site as an extension of your network (hence no need to > worry about NAT). > Yes - the downside is the increase in latency; I got a measurable difference using stunnel to encrypt traffic on a specific TCP connection (no tunneling - just data encryption) for non real-time data - this is only going to get worse adding tunneling into the mix (for those pesky UDP packets). En face it would seem to be an elegant solution to the problem though. Thinks. Maybe I could use netcat+pppd / similar to setup a tunnel without any encryption overhead (or is FreeSWAN already capable of this?). > Video over a modem is painful - broadband is much better. If a move to Currently, the slow end is talking at 128Kbps both ways. I'm not expecting much more than blurry postage stamps, although having said that I was surprised how well vc worked point-to-point over an ISDN-2 line (Sony unit using ???? as network protocol). Its more likely I'll need to think about bandwidth throttling. > Finally, www.fdns.net would allow you to set up your own DNS records or > even your own sub-domain of fdns.net > Excellent idea! Thanks for the pointers & URLs Jim. Colin _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
