[Ekiga-list] Best practices for using VoIP with FOSS

[Anthony Messina]

Damien Sandras wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le vendredi 04 mai 2007 à 22:52 +0100, Marcelo Coelho a écrit :
>> Hi!
>>
>>
>> As I found out that my ISP is blocking the output of VoIP, I'm gonna
>> try to set up a VoIP system myself in order to bypass that.
>>
>> To set it up there are a lot of different things to account for, and
>> as a VoIP newbie that I am, I'd like to know what are best choices of
>> FOSS to do just that and some other decisions like:
>>
>> H323 or SIP?
> 
> SIP is more modern.
> 
>> Asterisk or OpenPBX?
>>
>>
>> I'm not asking for long and detailed answers (I prefer that you spend
>> your time doing something better like enhance Ekiga :) ), I'd like to
>> know just what you guys would use for setting videoconferencing (and
>> maybe multi-user videoconferencing? ) in PC 2 PC connections.
> 
> I can't answer to that one. Asterisk has strong community support. I
> don't know CallWeaver very well...
> 
> But if you setup Asterisk, you are still using SIP and if they are
> blocking SIP, your Asterisk setup won't work either... :(
true.  you need to find out exactly what they are blocking.  are they
blocking certain firewall ports, or are they blocking protocols?

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