On Tuesday 01 January 2002 11:19 pm, you wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Simon Amor wrote:
> > > ...and if anyone's desperate to videocall me then there'll be a
> > > gatekeeper on nott.jonmasters.org and apogee.jonmasters.org
>
> > Are the H.323 kernel patches still required for Netmeeting through IP
> > Masq? I'm up to a 2.4 kernel now (with iptables) and couldn't
> > find the patches for 2.4 last time I looked for them.
>
> Hence the reason I mention gatekeepers. Several popular applications will
> now do "gate routed" (in other words "proxy") calls, that's how I plan to
> do it rather than fscking about with firewalling rules - also partly
> because there are likely to be several users behind each of my gateways
> who will thus benefit from the other functionality offered.
Probably a good decision, and proxies also mean that you only have to trust
the software running on the proxy server to maintain net integrity, not every
bit of client software, that someone can install. Something that ppl tend
to forget, when setting up packet filtering and NAT 'firewalls'.
Rob
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