[GnomeMeeting-devel-list] SIP and proxies

[syfou users sourceforge net]

Hi,

I really like GnomeMeeting, it is really usable and standards-compliant: 
a big thank to the developers.

I have a minor irritation with it though, that turns out to be a major one 
for many of my friends and family, and that make them use alternative VoIP 
softwares: the firewall/proxy problem -- the inability in too many 
circumstances to establish proper connection with someone behind 
some firewall, or a NAT (either hardware or software) or some sort of 
proxy.

Of course, almost all those situations can be sorted out with a bit of 
configuration, but I have the feeling that a big sell point of skype, for 
instance, is that it just work out of the box in all cases.

GnomeMeeting already has STUN for diagnostic, but wouldn't it be nice if 
It could just use some third party tcp broker to establish p2p-like 
connections when the reception caller is not publicly reachable?

I will not go into too much details, since I do not know what you will 
think, but my idea was some kind of TCP middleman on a public IP 
interface, similar to socks, that would just help establish and relay the 
traffic between two hosts, regardless of their masquerading state, etc.

Is this a good idea, or is this just me being misinformed or targeting a 
problem that isn't there?

--
Sylvain Fourmanoit <syfou users sourceforge net>

I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere.