Having used both rtpproxy and mediaproxy for quite sometime, here's my bits - (NOTE - I used rtpproxy a few months back - and a few changes might have occured during these few months - so some of my comments may be inaccurate). 1. When I used rtporoxy a few months back, it would not allow chaining two or more rtpproxies and I had to hack the code to make it work that way. To me this is a very important feature. If you are talking of a telco grade VoIP product, having control over the RTP stream is very very important - legal interception for example (I am sure one day our regulatory bodies or the government will force some requirement on this), prevent terminating SIP session and yet continuing the RTP session, privacy etc. And the only way you can have control over the RTP stream is by forcing it go via your rtpproxy/mediaproxy. So I think rtpproxy/mediaproxy has a purpose beyond the nathelper functionality. Mediaproxy can do that already. I am not sure of what changes have happened since I last used rtpproxy - but if this feature is still missing, it will be great to have this feature included. 2. Loadbalancing is important - particularly if you are thinking of proxing hundreds of calls at any instant. Mediaproxy gives this feature. I would like to see this in rtpproxy. 3. While using rtpproxy, when you terminate a call, SER does not send a message to the rtpproxy to terminate the rtp-stream associated with that call. Rather, rtpproxy sits there waiting and eventually times out. This is not good - there should be a tighter control. 4. rtpproxy is written in C. I like it - maybe because I am a bit more familiar with C. mediaproxy is written in python, and that makes me a bit uncomfortable about performance issues - although I have seen some earlier posting saying that the performance difference isn't much. But I can't say much on this until I do my own testing. Dhiraj Bhuyan Network Security Specialist, BT Exact Business Assurance Solutions Tel: +44 1473 643932 Mob: +44 7962 012145 Email: dhiraj.2.bhuyan(a)bt.com -----Original Message----- From: serusers-bounces(a)iptel.org [mailto:serusers-bounces@lists.iptel.org]On Behalf Of Atle Samuelsen Sent: 23 July 2004 07:21 To: Gustavo Russo Cc: serusers(a)lists.iptel.org Subject: Re: Fw: [Serusers] mediaproxy <-> rtpproxy Both work :-) - Atle * Gustavo Russo &lt;grusso(a)netex.com.ar&gt; [040723 01:15]: _______________________________________________ Serusers mailing list serusers(a)lists.iptel.org http://lists.iptel.org/mailman/listinfo/serusers