[LINK] Resilient Broadband Network needed for Australia

[Kim Holburn]

On 2008/May/08, at 12:09 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> On Thu, May 08, 2008, Kim Holburn wrote:
>
>> Of course if the standard VOIP protocols like SIP and H323 had been
>> written by someone with a clue about internet routing then VOIP would
>> be up and running in a big way already.
>
> Citation, please?

I have no idea who created them.  I speak purely as someone who has  
tried to route them.

Why do they have source and destination IP addresses in the data?   
Forcing a router doing what should be normal internet routing stuff  
like NAT to root around in the data section of packets.  Also how hard  
would have been to set up one UDP "stream" and put internal  
application header data in the packets for the application to sort out.

To route this stuff properly requires a fairly sophisticated "tracker"  
when it would have been simple to use the built-in capability of most  
routers.

Kim

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