3 way video conference from mac to pc

I have a Power Mac G5, and have recently started video conferencing with my friend, who happens to be a PC user. We have both been video conferencing through Skype, and it works great... but is it possible to add a 3rd person to our video conference (another pc user)? Any suggestions would be much appreciated! Thank you!

Can not be done in iChat.
11:05 PM Wednesday; January 24, 2007

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Dear Ralph,
Sorry for the confusion, I did assume you were an Apple empoyee. Your knowledge about iChat is stunning. I appreciate your effort to help users by sharing your knowledge with such dedication. I do apologise.
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Port forwarding is being automated and static ip addresses will be generated automatically.
Let's call it redirection (the handshake indicates the port to forward to).
When you have NAT running in your home you have the entire Internet available to all your machines. What if you have a machine behind the NAT gateway that needs to be accessed from outside? This is where redirection comes in. Redirection allows incoming traffic to be sent to a machine behind the NAT gateway.
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The from any to any part of the above rdr line can be quite useful. If you know what addresses or subnets are supposed to have access to the web server at port 80, you can restrict them here:
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