VoIP with Linux?
Janina Sajka
janina at rednote.net
Tue Mar 15 13:35:02 UTC 2005
Get your voip service provider to tell you what ports they need, then
just forward those. You shouldn't have to guess at this. This is a
question they probably answer frequently.
Andor Demarteau writes:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Christian Schoepplein wrote:
> > Yes, thats right. I decided, to use asterisk, it seems that this is
> > exactly what I need. I tryed linphone before, but without success
> > because the programm had problems with my firewall setup. The
> > configuration of asterisk is really a big torture, I'm searching arround
> > the internet and through the docu since friday :-(. Now I subscribed to
> > the asterisk-users mailinglist, but if anybody here can give my some
> > hints how to get asterisk to work just for ip telephony (getting calls
> > from the internet to my pc behind a nat firewall and vice versa), I
> > would be verry happy!
> first of all, NAT-triversal depends greatly on which VoIP protocol you are
> using.
> Astiersk' native IAX2 does veryw ell in this case, SIP will probably work
> too.
>
> It also depends on the otehr site (the VoIP provider).
>
> http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk general docs
> http://www.automated.it/guidetoasterisk.htm some general notes and
> config-stuff for www.freeworlddialup.com
>
> Don't be too overwelmed as Asterisk can do too much for what you need :)
> look at exten.conf and trhough everything out you don't need.
>
> only thing you need is probably a line saying dial,console (and the
> appropriate alsao ro oss config)
> and lines to dialout to yoru VoIP-provider (and vociemail if you are
> feeling up to it :) ).
>
> >
>
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