[Serusers] (open)SER and ICE

[Nils Ohlmeier]

On Thursday 01 December 2005 11:50, Teemu Harju wrote:
> Couterpath (www.counterpath.com) (formerly known as Xten) has this Xtunnel
> ( www.xtunnels.org) which sort of solves the NAT traversal problem. I
> haven't used it but I think it does. Correct me if I'm wrong. Btw... does
> anyone have experience using Xtunnel in their system?
>
> Of course only clients supporting this are their own.. x-lite & eyebeam,
> but they aren't the worst clients around. Eyebeam has even sort of "ICE
> support". Meaning no TURN protocol, but STUN and Xtunnel.

Yes Eyebeam has ICE support. But as I said, as ICE is still a moving target 
I'm not aware of any interoperable ICE implementation.

And to avoid confusion: ICE with Xtunnel makes IMHO no sence.
ICE is for media path optimisation. TURN is for NAT traversal. These are 
almost counterparts.

Regards
  Nils

> - Teemu
>
> 2005/12/1, Cesc <cesc.santa at gmail.com>:
> > On 11/30/05, Nils Ohlmeier <lists at ohlmeier.org> wrote:
> > > What you are probably thinking of is, that an UA with ICE support could
> >
> > also
> >
> > > advertise its IP address and port of the RTP proxy, but this is then
> >
> > called
> >
> > > TURN. And I think that is even more far away from becoming a standard,
> > > besides that their are AFAIK no UA's or TURN servers available yet.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps
> > >  Nils
> >
> > I think that the MiniSIP project is developing one client and
> > server... www.minisip.org, in the "branches" of the SVN repository. No
> > idea how far is it from being usable at all.
> >
> > Cesc
> >
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> Teemu Harju
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