VoIP with Linux?

[Andor Demarteau]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Janina Sajka wrote:

 > 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.
true enough, amybe there faq will list thema s well.

 > 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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Andor Demarteau                 E-mail: andor at nl.linux.org
student computer science        www: http://www.nl.linux.org/~andor
UU based & VU guest-student     jabber,icq,msn,voip: do ask ;)
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chairman Stichting Studiereizen Storm 2002-2004
vice-chairman USF Studentenbelangen executive committee 2002-2003