Re: VOIP and iptables dodgies :)

Brett Ellis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.mlug.main
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cold flame wrote:

>Hey guys.
>
>I have two questions ( i hope that's not too selfish :) ).
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>Firstly, have any of you had any experience with VOIP. i know that tpg have 
>just started offereing it in combination with their broadband plans etc. Just 
>wondering what some (real peoples) experiences are. quality? value? etc. any 
>ideas.
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 From experience, you need at least 512 for decent quality.
If you dont like the idea of having the comp on just to make a phone 
call, consider getting a router with a phone jack.
That way you can just plug in a normal phone n the router takes care of 
the rest...

Brett.

>Secondly, i'm a student at the university of melbourne. and to use their 
>proxies, you have to set those manually (fair enough). i was wondering, is 
>there a way to make the server (i assume using iptables) pretend it is the 
>university server whilst i am at home? ie pretend to be proxy.university etc 
>for internally generated packets?
>
>thanks for the ideas,
>
>coldflame
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