Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
Hello fellow debian users,
I am trying to look for a decent FLOSS VOIP software that allows me to
communicate to Windows/Mac users. Skype is out of the question since it does
not even support Debian PPC (which I have).
I have heard of Ekiga. How is that? Does that work with Windows/Mac users using
Skype clients?
What do you guys use?
Any information will be very helpful.
Thanks,
Amit
The easiest option assuming you have some control over your network and
can open some ports is to use Ekiga at your end and NetMeeting at the
other, on most windows PCs you can start NetMeeting by "start" "run" and
then type "conf" you'll be using the old VOIP protocol H323 and not SIP
but I used it for years and it's bloody good, only you will be able to
receive the calls and you'll want to set up dyndns or similar so the
other end has a consistent name to dial.
Failing that the only windows SIP clients that support H.261 [0] are
Ekiga and Windows Messenger 5.1 (Messenger is not MSN)
config tutorial here
http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Connecting_Windows_Messenger_5.1_to_ekiga.net
Also see
http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Which_programs_work_with_Ekiga_%3F#Windows
Good luck, I'm really looking forward to Ekiga 3
[0] at present Ekiga 2.0.11 (current) doesn't support the newer H.263
video compression codec that most modern SIP clients use, however Ekiga
3 will
http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Roadmap_to_3.00
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