Can anyone _recommend_ a downloadable OSS softphone that _works_ under Linux and is compatible with Asterisk. So far I have tried kphone and linphone and had problems with both, and I am still waiting to hear back from the X-Lite beta folks. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates; Your Linux people <http://www.lannetlinux.com> ------------------------------------------ "When you just want a system that works, you choose Linux; when you want a system that just works, you choose Microsoft." ------------------------------------------ "Flatter government, not fatter government; Get rid of the Australian states."
On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 05:37 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:> Can anyone _recommend_ a downloadable OSS softphone that _works_ under > Linux and is compatible with Asterisk. > > So far I have tried kphone and linphone and had problems with both, and > I am still waiting to hear back from the X-Lite beta folks. >XLite isn't exactly OSS, isn't it? :) I tried linphone, iaxcomm, gnomemeeting, and SJPhone. Pros and cons: (1) linphone Audio OK, but it doesn't send media when somebody calls me. Buggy for me. (2) iaxcomm Generally good, sometimes crackly audio. When people call me with firefly and * attempts a transfer, we experience huge audio delays in the 10 sec range. Could be firefly or iaxcomm bug. Maybe both, as they both use the iaxclient library. But as long as * sticks to notransfer quite usable. (3) gnomemeeting Fairly good, but currently supports only h323. SIP support is underway. Since I couldn't yet find a simple way to register with * without a gatekeeper and have people call me, I'm currently not using it. (3) SJPhone (for linux) Not OSS, but for me best audio and latencies. Definitive con: there seems to be no dial pad (i.e. dtmf interaction during call not possible). Especially, the OSS phone situation is not really bright, at least for me. Regards, Bruno.
Howard Lowndes wrote:>Can anyone _recommend_ a downloadable OSS softphone that _works_ under >Linux and is compatible with Asterisk. > >So far I have tried kphone and linphone and had problems with both, and >I am still waiting to hear back from the X-Lite beta folks. > > >How about iaxcomm? http://iaxclient.sourceforge.net/iaxcomm/ Adam
On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 07:09, Adam Fineberg wrote:> Howard Lowndes wrote: > > >Can anyone _recommend_ a downloadable OSS softphone that _works_ under > >Linux and is compatible with Asterisk. > > > >So far I have tried kphone and linphone and had problems with both, and > >I am still waiting to hear back from the X-Lite beta folks. > > > > > > > > How about iaxcomm? > > http://iaxclient.sourceforge.net/iaxcomm/I should have added SIP reqd. I assume this only does IAX2 but I will look at it. I have almost got sflphone compiled only I have hit a missing file in one of the library compiles along the way.> > Adam > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users-- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates; Your Linux people <http://www.lannetlinux.com> ------------------------------------------ "When you just want a system that works, you choose Linux; when you want a system that just works, you choose Microsoft." ------------------------------------------ "Flatter government, not fatter government; Get rid of the Australian states."
Yes iaxcomm is an IAX softphone. I know Xten is working on improving their linux support for their SIP based shoftphones.
I use iaxcomm (a little finicky to get working since it needs wxgtk files) and linphone Linphone is SIP and is a little trickier to get working when dealing with NAT than iax (iaxcomm) I chose these 2 because they seemed the easiest to get working. They both work fine but are not as good sound quality as my hardware phones. Howard Lowndes (lannet@lannet.com.au) wrote:> > Can anyone _recommend_ a downloadable OSS softphone that _works_ under > Linux and is compatible with Asterisk. > > So far I have tried kphone and linphone and had problems with both, and > I am still waiting to hear back from the X-Lite beta folks. > > when you want a system that just works, you choose Microsoft." > ------------------------------------------ > "Flatter government, not fatter government; > Get rid of the Australian states." > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > >