> (1) Do I need to make a special provision for firewalls and routers to make > calls?
Have you tried http://www.google.com/search?q=ekiga+firewall ? As I mentioned in an email about a week ago, Twinkle works in one environment where Ekiga doesn't. I don't know why yet (it's quite a broken network in other respects), I'm just using Twinkle there and intend to use a VPN to hopefully generally solve this and the missing encryption problem (although a VPN might have it's own problems with firewalls). It works out of the box in my home network (with a NAT router running OpenWRT). Till recently, I've only used Twinkle for quite some time and that worked in most wifi networks I tried it in, dunno if Ekiga would have been different. The only network where neither of the two programs worked (like, receiving a call would only work for ~60 seconds then stop), and nothing I tried helped, was at my father's home (with a router that came from the dsl company). > (2) Are there different requirements for different SIP providers, for > example, Ekiga.net and Diamondcard.us? If you use Diamondcard then your interest is probably callint to/from the normal phone network; which, if yes, implies that Diamondcard is the only IP address that is going to call you, incidentally being (I think) the same IP your computer is connecting to for authentication/outgoing calls. Which means it may be easier firewalling-wise to reach you. (I haven't tested this hypothesis, though, exactly because of lack of SIP testing partners.) Ch. _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list
