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Improving Skype quality

Every now and then I revisit the issue of shaping skype traffic. AFAIK Skype is notorious for ignoring most settings – incoming ports, proxies, etc so it is not possible to give special treatment to...

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Block skype using iptables

Any way to block skype from our network using IPTABLES ? Skype is P2P-like, it’s very difficult to block it using only iptables. You should checkout layer7 (http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/protocols)...

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Switch from Skype to IRC

In our company (web company, 35 people, engineering and business, OS X clients, linux servers), we’re evaluating alternatives to Skype which we use mostly for group and user-to-user chat. I’ve looked...

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How to change routing for skype packets?

I can’t seem to find a way to somehow change routing for Skype packets. I have following situation: host ha, in lan, runs skype. host ha has gateway “gw1″ gw1 has 2 separate network connections – one...

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blocking skype through websense

How do I block Skype using Websense? Skype is blocked by default after installation of Websense Express. In the Websense Master Database, Skype is assigned to the protocol category called P2P File...

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Skype-SIP gateway

Does anyone know if you can setup a Skype-to-SIP gateway on your network? I tried Uplink, which works wonders, but only on Windows and with Skype on the same machine… It would be awesome if you could...

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Does your company allow Skype in network?

Does your company allow Skype in network? What are reasons to forbid it, and how it is enforced? Is it done for security concerns? Skype is P2P so it eats up bandwidth. Also nominates users with good...

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Small business video confrence. Any reason why I should not use Skype?

I’m going to need to set up video conferencing between Hawaii and Seattle for a small business. They would like to use a mounted TV to do the video conferencing. It will be one TV to one TV...

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Skype Connect as SIP/Trunk for Asterisk

First off: I’m not sure if this should be on superuser or here. I have recently built a few Asterisk boxes with OpenVOX FXO/FXS ports little or no trouble. My current project is building an Asterisk...

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Can I have notifications/alerts sent by IM to a Skype account from a headless...

I want to make my network monitoring system send IM alerts, and the IM client of choice at my workplace is Skype. Is there a command-line driven API, that doesn’t require the GUI Skype client, so I...

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