Re: FW: Skype allowance

[Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>]

Tomo wrote:

> We explicitly permit Skype as a useful communication and business
> tool for our students; however with a default deny firewall we are in
> recent months  seeing some issues with call quality as most of our
> Skype-Skype traffic will depend upon other Skype clients to relay
> traffic - we suspect that there are a decreasing number of Skype
> clients on the internet with spare CPU cycles or bandwidth to relay
> those calls, but our investigations are still ongoing.
We opened a specific inbound port for Skype, and instruct all our users
to configure their Skype clients to listen on this port. Pick a random
one in the high range, like 61234, for example. This gets advertised as
part of the contact status conversation with one's friends in the network.

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