Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:42:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <179528.87578.qm@web36501.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTim6U-Tb-i%2Bk2X917zybpLJjqXVLNw@mail.gmail.com> References: <4DFCDE25.2050203@rawbw.com> <20110618180326.GA21890@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> <4DFD01B9.5010807@rawbw.com> <20110618212315.GB21890@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> <20110619072518.2115dffb@scorpio> <BANLkTikaYJMSrGXynurtRmnqB%2BJLDLBjYA@mail.gmail.com> <20110619112248.7c879c1f@scorpio> <BANLkTim6U-Tb-i%2Bk2X917zybpLJjqXVLNw@mail.gmail.com>
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Wow. this thread really took a turn for the worse. So getting back to the main topic about SIP phones, I have been using SIP phones since 2006 and I never found anything that worked under FreeBSD. Mainly for this reason and this reason seems to mirror where this thread went off topic. While I could make something work on my end, because I'm a hobbyist, I could not get my friends, family, co-workers, customers, etc... to make anything work, even in the M$ environment. The main reason is that hackers in this world have caused all of us to in one way or another deploy firewalls. And I would say that 99% of the non-hobbyists out there don't have a clue how to configure their firewall, indeed many of them don't even know they have one working. Whether it's M$ built-in firewall or the firewall on their ISP supplied router/modem, or the hotel they are staying at is blocking SIP ports. Unless you can get the person on the other end to receive your phone call then very little works. Which is a real shame because as a hobbyist I have done some really neat things with SIP phones, Asterisk, not to mention VPN and other packages. But without another hobbyist on the other end, its proved more than impossible to get things working which I could really use on a daily basis. 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.home | help
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