[Freeswitch-users] Using mod_opal with MSN Messenger

[Rhosyn]

Re-sending as for some reason the first "send" didn't seem arrive??

On 5 February 2011 19:14, Rhosyn <rhosyn at purplescarab.com> wrote:

> Hi Mazilo,
>
> I think you're barking up the wrong tree.
>
> MSN Messenger is (as I understand it from digging into it a few years ago)
> a proprietary text-based protocol (see: e.g.
> http://www.hypothetic.org/docs/msn/client/invitations.php  for some
> "reverse engineered" details)
>
> whereas H.323 (as supported by Opal) is an ITU Standard and is a binary
> protocol.
>
> There's a tiny bit of a historical protocol overlap in that both Messenger
> (old, now defunct versions?) and H.323 clients (like MS Netmeeting)  have
> used T.120 for app sharing but even then, AFAIK, they have never been
> interoperable for any kind of call signalling.
>
> To my knowledge, the only major  "chat" program with a large user base that
> uses anything close to kind of open standard is gtalk (which uses XMPP)
>
> Hth,
>
> Rhosyn
>
>
>
> On 5 February 2011 01:06, mazilo <Nabble at slickdeals.endjunk.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Has anyone managed to configure mod_opal to register to MSN Messenger
>> server
>> to place/receive calls to/from any MSN Messenger users? I took a look at
>> the
>> conf/autoload_configs/opal.conf.xml file and don't know what to fill the
>> gk-address, gk-identifier, and gk-interface. Anyone?
>>
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