"Ekiga is a SIP and H.323 compatible VoIP, IP Telephony, and Video Conferencing application that allows you to make audio and video calls to remote users with SIP or H.323 hardware and software. It supports all modern VoIP features for both SIP and H.323. Ekiga is the first Open Source application to support both H.323 and SIP, as well as audio and video. Ekiga was formerly known as GnomeMeeting. To get started: Download Ekiga for your distribution and get a free SIP-Address at ekiga.net."
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2006-01-28
Does anyone know of Suse 10 binary packages for Ekiga?
I'd like to try this out, but I can't install any compilers on this box.
Ekiga looks very, very promising. Along with Gizmoproject and Openwengo, they are helping make SIP into the widely used open standard that it deserves to be.
Get off skype and get on the interoperability train. Otherwise, do you want a repeat of the current IM situation with people having to keep separate Yahoo, AOL, MSN accounts to be able to talk to each other?
SIP is the name of the game. And if you are tired of software problems, just get yourself a Linksys PAP2, a CISCO SIP phone, a SIPURA or any of the hundreds of pieces of hardware that support SIP (sipphone.com)
Member since:2005-06-29
I found a rpm here:
http://home.tiscali.be/raoul.linux/downloadSuSE10.0.htm
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2006-02-17
A long sought after feature that, AFAIK, is yet unimplemented is the desktop/windows sharing ability of NetMeeting. Obviously there's other solutions, but it ought to be there for completeness sake (I personally don't have the time or talent to implement that particular feature myself, otherwise I would).
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I tried configuring ekiga with the details from my voip provider, and it worked at first try! The only problem I've seen is an inability to talk to another voip using which uses draytek vigor voip routers, due to an iability to negotiate a common codec. I assume this is because ekiga doesn't come with patentet codecs.
Edited 2006-03-13 22:21
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2006-03-13
Nice thing about Skype is that it "just works". Run the installer and go. No messing around with your firewall or anything unless you've got outbound filters. Bad thing about Skype is no video in Linux.
Having said that, I'm glad someone's at least attempting to create some sort of open alternative.
I might give it a try again when there's a Windows version and it works seamlessly through NAT. I do run Linux, but nobody that I want to call does.
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You don't have to mess about with your firewall to use SIP under Ekiga, either. The initital configuration process has a button which says "Detect NAT Type". You click it. It detects your NAT type, then determines what mode it should use to traverse the NAT, you click 'OK', and you're done. You only have to change firewall / router settings to use H323 (the old protocol Netmeeting used).
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2005-11-13
This has to be the worst name change in history. Going from a intuitive name that tells you something about what the software to something completely random (atleast to the public).
Everyone who complains about the names of KThisApp KThatApp in every kde related news posting should have a look at this name change and ask them selves if this change really was for the better.
Edited 2006-03-13 22:55
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If you already have a gizmo account, ekiga is fully compatible with it. In your ekiga account setup, put the following info
Account Name: gizmo
Registrar: proxy01.sipphone.com:5060
User: 17476252230 (This is your SIP number)
Password: **********
Authentication Login: 17476252230
Realm/Domain: proxy01.sipphone.com
Registration Timeout: 3600
Good luck and happy calling...
Finally a free software implentation of SIP that doesn't suck!
