Hi Pai H.323 Gatekeeper works together with the H.323 protocol filter to provide full communications capabilities to H.323-registered clients using applications that are compliant with H.323 Gatekeeper, such as NetMeeting 3.0 or later, or video, audio, T120 data, and application sharing over the internet. It shouldn't affect your yahoo/msn messenger services if you stop it. Here is an example that I got from Microsoft Help File. From within your company: You place a call from your office to someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx using NetMeeting 3.0. NetMeeting 3.0 connects with your in-house H.323 Gatekeeper. The H.323 Gatekeeper does not recognize microsoft.com as an internal address and forwards the call to the ISA Server computer within your company. ISA Server looks up the address for microsoft.com and makes the query over the Internet to microsoft.com. At the destination: When the ISA Server computer at microsoft.com receives the query for someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, it contacts the internal H.323 Gatekeeper at microsoft.com to obtain the correct in-house address. The H.323 Gatekeeper at microsoft.com translates the alias into a network address for ISA Server. The ISA Server sends a confirmation back to ISA Server at your company and establishes the connection. From this point through the end of the communication, the ISA Server holds open the link established by H.323 Gatekeeper. Someone is not required to have a valid, externally routable IP address, and the address will remain hidden from other endpoints by the ISA Server. Regards Chris Dinis Technical Director Aztec IT Ltd 139 Croxley View WD18 6PE www.aztecit.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: jagadish.pai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jagadish.pai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 13 March 2003 05:51 To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] H.323 Gatekeeper http://www.ISAserver.org Hi Do we really need this h.323 gatekeeper I have stopped the h.323 gateway services in isa server. What is the benefit if i start the services, and how it is useful. Will this effect in yahoo/msn messenger services if the services are stopped. Regards Pai ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=isalist ISA Server Newsletter: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/newsletter.asp ISA Server FAQ: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Exchange Server Resource Site: http://www.msexchange.org/ Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this ISAserver.org Discussion List as: chris.dinis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')