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

["Marcelo Coelho" <marcelocoelho gmail com>]

> > 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?

Well, I'll try to have an answer on that. Either way, as I intend to
do videoconferencing only with a couple of people, they can set up a
VPN connection to my home lan and use SIP internally (at least I think
that is possible).

Either way thanks for the help!
Marcelo





2007/5/5, Anthony Messina <amessina messinet com>:
> 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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