[GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Re: SIP and proxies

[Jan Schiefer <cheaterjs gmx de>]

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syfou users sourceforge net schrieb:
> 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?
> 


You mean gnomemeeting should implement some sort of autoconfiguration.
It detects your status and should configure the stun/proxy stuff
automatically.

Right?

Greetings,
Jan Schiefer!
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