[Ekiga-list] Registration failed :(

[Bob Williams <linux barrowhillfarm org uk>]

Hi,

I'm new to this list, and I'm having trouble getting Ekiga to work.

My Setup:

I have a Vigor 2800v ADSL 2/2+ VoIP Router. It has two ports for hardware 
phones. When I got the router, I registered with Draytel.org and have 
been using this account successfully for several years. I have credit 
with them for making PC-to-phone calls (or, more accurately, 
router-to-phone, in this case, as my PC is not involved).

Moving to a softphone setup:

As I have a webcam, I thought it would be cool to try out Ekiga, so that I 
could include a video link. I downloaded and installed Ekiga 2.0.12 (the 
version currently available on the openSUSE repositories). At the 
configuration druid, I skipped the step where I am invited to sign up for 
a SIP account with Ekiga.net as I already had an account. Indeed, at the 
next step, Ekiga interrogated my NAT router and pulled all the necessary 
details of my account with Draytel. I can't remember, but I may have had 
to re-enter the password, but in no time my Ekiga softphone was 
registered with Draytel. However, it wouldn't connect with any of the 
test numbers, and didn't allow me to use the credit I had with Draytel to 
call landline phones.

My next step was to subscribe to Diamondcard to get $10 credit for use 
with Ekiga. This all went well, they accepted my money, and gave me an 
account number and password to use. I even had a phone call from a nice 
guy in the USA (I live in UK), to verify that's what I wanted to do :)

Still no go! Ekiga reports "Registration failed"

So, maybe it will work if I have an Ekiga.net account. I jumped through 
all the hoops, got myself an ekiga.net identity, only to get the same 
result - "Registration failed".

I now have a nice little program which connects to my soundcard and webcam 
(I was pleasantly impressed with how easy the installation was, compared 
with Skype for linux, which refused to play with my soundcard), has three 
accounts loaded, one of which is registered, but unusable, and two of 
which won't register.

BTW, I chose not to use a STUN router, as the original, functioning 
Draytel account, which uses a phone handset, works without it.

Any suggestions, please?

Bob
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