[Ekiga-list] Re (2): Peer to peer VoIP.

[peasthope shaw ca]

At Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:25:32 +0200, Ian wrote 
"Actually, SIP is peer-to-peer protocol. If you know that a person you
want to call is running Ekiga (or any other SIP client) on a machine
that has a particular IP, you can make a call to sip:<IP address> ...

Now what's the advantage of calling sip:user example com ..."

Well, if the server is down, a peer to peer call would be 
better than none.  If the server is running but overloaded 
a peer to peer call might help to understand the problem.  
A recent discussion concerned this possibility.  

Regards,             ... Peter E.


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