On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 11:23:42AM -0700, Martin Glazer wrote: > As already mentioned, Skype is not open source and their protocol is > proprietry and closed, however, one of the big advantages it has over SIP is > that it works pretty well through firewalls. SIP has issues with NAT.
Yes there is no doubt that NAT is an issue with SIP. > Another alternate is IAX, which is a protocol developed by the Asterisk > project, which is open and works well through firewalls. > > As soon as I have the time, I'm going to be setting up an Asterisk server and > playing with it more. I know there are already service providers supporting > the IAX protocol who can terminate to local POTS lines - there is a cost (of > course). There is always a cost... -- Owen _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
