Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:Skype is neither SIP nor H323. It is based on its own protocol. On the plus side, it is capable of working behind a firewall.
Any particular reason not to use a native Linux SIP phone?
My guess is that he wants to run SKYPE.It's a SIP phone with a builtin peer-to-peer user directory and routers. The people who wrote kazzaa rehashed their code into a SIP phone.
I just downloaded it myself to use on a "real" windows PC. "Hello, my
name is Geoff, and I use Windows", :-)
I don't need it much as I have a real SIP phone (Cisco ATA-186) and a Vonage
account.
The main advantage of SKYPE is that you don't need to know or even be able to reach the person you are calling (It transverses firewalls and NAT). It also provides end-to-end encryption which is needed because all calls are routed via peer-to-peer servers.
This is what killed "speak freely" and keeps the others such as PGPphone from spreading. They required incoming ports and did not transverse NAT.
Geoff.
Shachar
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