asterisk users - Mar 2004 - Can i do voice chat without using the hardware

Hi,

I am new to VOIP and Asterisk. I have downloaded and
installed Asterisk in my Linux machine and tested
using asterisk –vvvvc command .... it works fine. It's
an excellent product.
Without using any of Digium's hardware or T1 or E1
interfaces
, can i do voice chat between two computers
(intranet/internet)?

If possible, How can i do that? (Any configuaration
setting is required?)

Waitng for your help.

Regards,
Sur




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Sure thing.  You're going to have to get SIP involved though.  This
means using sip.conf to create new sip users.
Do a search on www.voip-info.org for sip.conf and it will explain how to
configure a user for SIP.
Then you'll need SIP clients (hard VoIP phones, or SIP soft clients such
as Windows Messenger or X-Lite).
You can make VoIP calls over an existing network infrastructure without
analog hardware.
For instance, I have an internal Asterisk PBX allowing VoIP
conversations between X-Lite, Windows Messenger, and Pingtel clients -
all over networking connections, no T1/E1/Analog needed.
You need the hardware when you start interfacing with the PSTN for the
most part.

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Sent: March 18, 2004 11:21 AM
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Can i do voice chat without using the hardware

Hi,

I am new to VOIP and Asterisk. I have downloaded and installed Asterisk
in my Linux machine and tested using asterisk -vvvvc command .... it
works fine. It's an excellent product.
Without using any of Digium's hardware or T1 or E1 interfaces , can i do
voice chat between two computers (intranet/internet)?

If possible, How can i do that? (Any configuaration setting is
required?)

Waitng for your help.

Regards,
Sur




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Suresh,
>From: suresh kumar <idcsureshp@yahoo.com>
>Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Can i do voice chat without  using  the hardware
<snip>
>Without using any of Digium's hardware or T1 or E1
>interfaces
>, can i do voice chat between two computers
>(intranet/internet)?
>
>If possible, How can i do that? (Any configuaration
>setting is required?)
>Sur
>
You can use Asterisk's SIP channels for this. You need to have IP 
phones/Softphones that register with Asterisk. If you are using windows you 
can freely download and install evaluation versions of SJphone or Xlite.

For configurations, see the 'User Contributed Links' section of 
http://www.asteriskpbx.org/index.php?menu=support

There are plenty of documents available to help you...

Good luck, Girish

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Suresh,
>From: suresh kumar <idcsureshp@yahoo.com>
>Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Can i do voice chat without using the 
>hardware
>Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 05:50:00 -0800 (PST)
>
>Thanks a lot for your valuable information. I will go
>through it once again. Still i don't have any idea to
>connect two PC's. Hope i may get help from you.
For configuring 2 softphones with Asterisk see this link: 
http://www.automated.it/guidetoasterisk.htm
That helped me a lot in learning Asterisk. It explains configuring your sip 
phones with Asterisk.
>Is there any softwares like X-lite for Linux?
Yes, I think you can use linophone. But i was not able to install linophone 
because of some make issues. Also i have tested the softphone from zultys. 
It works well with Asterisk.  You can get it from their web 
site:http://www.zultys.com

Regards, Girish

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--- David J Carter <david.carter@codepipe.com>
wrote:
> 
> 
> My aim is that, i want to connect my PC (where i
> installed the asterisk) to another PC in my network
> for voice chating. For this purpose, what are the
> steps to
> be done? which are the files to be modified. I would
> like to make use of the existing Hardware (sound card,
> network card etc), i am not using any extra hardware.
> Is X-Lite work in Linux? or any compatible s/w that
> works under linux?
> 
> Have a look at these sites: -
> 
> 
> >     http://www.codepipe.com/id25.htm
> >	http://www.jaredsmith.net/misc/hgta/
> >     http://www.wwworks-inc.com/asterisk/
> >     http://www.fnords.org/~eric/asterisk/
> >     http://bcwireless.net/moin.cgi/VoIPHowTo
> >     http://www.automated.it/guidetoasterisk.htm
> >     http://www.asterisk.org/index.php?menu=support
> >     http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+config+files
> >     http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk
> >
> If you have the CLI> prompt then your almost there.
> 
> If you have the audio set up in asterisk then you can use a
> headset/microphone to call the other party.
> 
> CLI>dial 1234
> 
> when finished
> 
> CLI>hangup
> 
> Simple huh?
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Dave
> 
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