On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Carlos E. R.
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The Saturday 2008-05-03 at 12:19 -0700, John Andersen wrote:
Skype "searches for in your computer"? ???
Bypassing the firewall is the beauty of skype, a documented feature.
Firewall traversal is not difficult. Skype is a community supported protocol,
Say what?
Community supported!? It is closed source, man. The method is known, more or less, because it has been reverse engineered, but it is certainly not "community suported".
not dissimilar from BitTorrent in concept.
Try to read to the end of the sentence before you reply. I didn't say skype was open source, I said the protocol was a community. Every additional user on skype ADDS to the available network, rather than stretching it thinner. If you are behind a firewall, the firewall traversal methods in skype will connect to any skype client that is NOT behind a firewall. So the un-firewalled machine routes traffic for the two firewalled machines. This is fully explained in the Skype docs. This takes a little bandwidth. (its really pretty small). If you don't want to provide this service as a skype user, you stay behind a firewall. Its that simple. I've been using skype since Alpha days, I was one of the early linux testers, (before there was a windows client). -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org