Re: Apple's iSight and Firewalls

[Bartek Krajnik <bartek () bicom pl>]

On 19-08-2003 at 08:43:23PM -0400, Jim Seymour wrote:
JS> Hi All,
JS> 
JS> My company would like to set up inexpensive video-conferencing.
JS> They've been bugging me for a solution for some time.  The partner
JS> company, being All Windows, All The Time, of course immediately
JS> suggested NetMeeting.  ISTR a discussion about NetMeeting here, perhaps
JS> prompted by me, and, IIRC, it pretty much requires one make swiss
JS> cheese of their firewall for it to work.  I vetoed it, and management
JS> backed me up.  Doing a search on "NetMeeting" on SecurityFocus was not
JS> encouraging, either.
JS> 
JS> Recently they bought me an iBook to do some WebObjects development
JS> with.  It just hit me today that maybe Apple's iSight product would do
JS> the trick for video conferencing.
JS> 
JS> Problem is: I've no idea what iSight would need through the firewall.
JS> 
JS> There's this:
JS> 
JS>     http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030623203213301
JS> 
JS> If 5060 and 16384 through 16403 UDP are all that are required, and I
JS> can specify the only allowed IP address inside they would forward to,
JS> well, that might be acceptable.
JS> 
JS> Comments?  Opinions?  Suggestions?  Flames? ;)
JS> 
Here is everything what You need:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/NetMeeting/Corp/reskit/Chapter4/default.asp

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  Bartek.
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