On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 07:21:13PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > H.S. wrote: > > Hello, > > > > This is something I am not familiar with and I may not be even using the > > right words. > > > > I am wondering if there is a tool to do voice calls or chat between two > > machines on the internet without having to use any intermediate server. > > > > One machine is my own, Debian Testing or Unstable, and the other machine > > is a Ubuntu Hardy or Debian Testing half a world away. What we would > > like is to do a voice chat between two users and, ideally, the voice > > session going through an SSH tunnel. SSH tunnel will be preferred > > because the other computer is behind a firewall and may not have any > > exotic ports forwarded, or even allowed going out without asking an > > administrator to change firewall rules, for some chat applications. > > > > Can Ekiga to this? I have an ekiga account but haven't really used it > > for any talks yet. But it appears to need a server (same as Yahoo or gtalk). > > > > Any inputs regarding this will be appreciated. > > Regards. > > Just discovered that I can call a user at a remote machine using ekiga > and without having an ekiga account. To make a call to Joe for example, > I just call sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
SSH can only forward TCP ports. SIP is normally using UDP . I'm not sure Ekiga supports SIP/TCP. But even if it does, the actual audio in a SIP session is carried over in a RTP, which is a different UDP "connection". > > Now all that is left is to see if I can do the calls through ssh tunnel > created between the two machines. For example, Joe may connect to my > machine via ssh and do forward nnn ports (the ones needed by ekiga) and > then call [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he should be able to talk to me on ekiga. Try using openvpn instead. Speex/wb would probably be the best codec to use. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
