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Mandriva to ship Skype

Posted Dec 22, 2005 9:46 UTC (Thu) by evgeny (guest, #774)
In reply to: Mandriva to ship Skype by tajyrink
Parent article: Mandriva to ship Skype

> OpenWengo is GPL, uses standards (SIP) etc. but otherwise is similar to Skype.

No, it isn't. If you're behind a firewall, you're out of luck. This is the whole selling point of Skype - no matter where are you, you can make/get a call. Like it was the key feature of Kazaa that made it so popular.

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Posted Dec 22, 2005 15:39 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

Doesn't it use STUN, like all SIP clients seem to do?

Mandriva to ship Skype

Posted Dec 22, 2005 15:48 UTC (Thu) by evgeny (guest, #774) [Link]

> Doesn't it use STUN, like all SIP clients seem to do?

Maybe, I don't know. Why does it matter? STUN won't help you make a call from behind a firewall if the firewall administrator isn't going to help you (or, depending on the network topology, simply can't help).