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Re: [LUG] New router

 

Eion MacDonald wrote:
On 29/04/2010 16:29, Gordon Henderson wrote:
They block all 3rd party VoIP (as do most other routers with built-in
VoIP - but most of them make it easy to turn it off!)

1. Not true for VoIP.

I use Skype, extensively for all communications to China and Far/Middle
East.
If Skype is not VoIP then I don't know what definition you could use.
PS Skype over both SuSE and MS Win OSs (depends on computer)
Skype has a lot of proprietary stuff in it and (as far as I can tell) wont allow you to connect to 'proper' VOIP or SIP. It should be fairly easy to write an Apache package to allow you to connect on port80 or 443 (HTTP/HTTPS) to allow you to avoid any blocking/shaping by your 'provider' but no-one seems to have got round to it... or one of the many portmappers/tunnellers about.
Tom te tom te tom

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