[Telepathy] Support for UPnP/DLNA

[Olivier Crête]

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 10:27 -0500, Matt Rogers wrote:
> 2010/8/5 Olivier Crête <olivier.crete at collabora.co.uk>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 15:50 +0530, Rajesh Sai T wrote:
> >> Do we have any support for UPnP in Telepathy ? If so, appreciate your
> >> help if  you guys pointing me to the module that has the support. If
> >> no, is there any plans of doing so?
> >
> > Telepathy is a framework for real-time communication. UPnP/DNLA have
> > nothing to do with that field. If you are looking for a free
> > implementation of UPnP/DLNA, I suggest you look at the GuPnP project and
> > the Rygel media server.
> >
> 
> That's not necessarily true. UPnP is a framework that can be used for
> dynamic port forwarding with firewalls, so there is some relevance
> from that angle, but probably only in the connection managers. The
> original poster didn't even ask about DNLA so I have no idea where
> that came from.

Yes, but that's not relevant to Telepathy. However, I should note that
Farsight2 and libnice (used to make voip calls when using TP) fully
supports UPnP IGB (Internet Gateway Device) to open ports etc.

-- 
Olivier Crête
olivier.crete at collabora.co.uk
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