Re: Re: Setting up H323 IP telephony etc - was Re: [fw-wiz] Apple's iSight and Firewalls

[Frederick M Avolio <fred () avolio com>]

At 07:30 AM 8/27/2003 +0800, Bret Watson wrote:
> OK maybe I forgot to give a detail..
>
> H.323 is the IP Telephony protocol.. Netmeeting uses it, but so does many 
> other system, such as picturetel and cisco's stupidly expensive wifi IP 
> phones..


Of course... This gets to my comments on asking the right question to 
determine the  REAL REQUIREMENT. H.323 has many simultaneous connections. 2 
or more are TCP. Up to 4 are UDP.  All (except 1) are to ephemeral ports. 
Heck, you thought FTP was ugly! At least VoIP just needs H.323. NetMeeting 
(if we really mean NetMeeting) sucks in T.120 also. Even on a firewall that 
proxies all of these, you're talking 25 or so proxies for H.323 and 5 
(whiteboarding, file transfer, chat, etc.) for T.120.


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