From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 20 06:55:49 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D11A3106566C for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 06:55:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ftp51246-2575596@sh4-5.1blu.de) Received: from sh4-5.1blu.de (sh4-5.1blu.de [213.83.63.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 831548FC1C for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 06:55:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ftp51246-2575596 by sh4-5.1blu.de with local (Exim 4.50) id 1QYY3c-0001l4-PE; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:34:01 +0200 Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:34:00 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz To: Bill Tillman Message-ID: <20110620063359.GA4506@sh4-5.1blu.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 06:55:49 -0000 message from Bill Tillman > > Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:42:51 -0700 (PDT) > From: Bill Tillman > To: FreeBSD > Subject: Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD? > > ... > > Oh and just in case...I use Asterisk on FreeBSD-8.2-STABLE as my PBX for my > private home office. I connect via SIP with a VOIP provider who provides not > only phone service but a DID as well. I use SIP phones (actual phones, not > software) to make my SOHO appear to be a professional corporate office with > transfers, conference calls, Music on hold, voice mail, the works. I > occassionally use an IAX softphone or SIP softphone program on Windows to make > and receive calls but for the most part I use the actual phones. Several friends > and family members have asked me to set them up similarly but unless I could > make it totally handsfree for them there is no way it will ever work, simply > because they are not hobbyists like me and have no desire to do anything but > click a big button on their desktop which looks like a phone. Anything beyond > that and you're into the realm of impossible....again. Hello Bill, I've read this about Asterisk with special attention and interests. At the moment I have at home a 'normal' ISDN BRI telephone (two D-channels) and DSL for Internet. I'm thinking in replacing the ISDN telephone with some small FreeBSD box running Asterisk and allowing: - SIP clients (Ekiga) from my laptop and the laptop of my wife (both WLAN) to do normal calls via Asterisk (at the end through the ISDN line), or SIP calls when I'm traveling around with my laptop/netbook; - having 1-2 SIP phones connected via WLAN to the FreeBSD Asterisk as well to be always reachable (even if the laptops are down) Maybe you have some documentation to share (off-list) about your installation, or some hints about. Thanks in advance matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e - w http://www.unixarea.de/