Kris, Kris Marsh wrote:
> Any service based on SIP (i.e. both Ekiga and sipgate) should in > theory work fine together. In practice, it doesn't always work that > way but is generally good enough! I know that Ekiga and sipgate work > fine together. > > Ekiga has an echo test that you can dial... sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] which > should work great for what you need. Ekiga works for me calling land lines etc using my sipgate account, but it fails when calling the ekiga.net echo test number. So I'm guessing it'a an issue specific to the echo test number. > The only benefit that Skype has that SIP clients do not, is that it's > aggressive NAT traversal works in most cases, without any messing > about with routers etc. With your SIP client, just make sure it's set > to the correct NAT traversal method. Ekiga's NAT wizard will be able > to help you with this. Mine is uses STUN to get past my NAT firewall and uses the ekiga stun server even though my account is with sipgate! I've not done anything special on my router to make it work! > Good luck, and Merry Christmas :-) Thanks. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
