[lug] Jitsi, etc.

[Jonathan Corbet]

On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 09:21:56 -0600
Mike Witt <msg2mw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you happen to know -- Does Jisti (and any other conferencing systems  
> you know about) use multicast? Or does all the traffic actually go  
> through the server in a sort of "star" configuration? (Hope that  
> question makes sense).

In general conversations go through the server.  As I understand it, Jitsi
can do direct peer-to-peer connections in cases where the participants are
reachable to each other (i.e. generally not unless they're on the same
network) but I've never tried messing with it.

jon