Re: [Ekiga-list] Outbound use with routers and firewalls

[ael <law_ence dev ntlworld com>]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:53:46PM -0400, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> > The question was whether special provision is needed for firewalls and
> > routers, for making outbound calls.  As far as I can tell, the answer is an
> > unequivocal NO.
> 
> AFAIK this is not true, it's more complicated.

Absolutely. There are many and various routers out in the wild with
a wide variety of behaviours.

1 user with 1 particular router can't give "an unequivocal NO."

When someone has traced the behaviour with wireshark and the like on several
routers, and read & understood the relevant documents including the STUN rfc
then perhaps one can make some tentative suggestions.

ael