Hello I need to hook up someone's remote PC onto our Asterisk server over the Net. There are firewalls on each side, so I figured it's time to give IAX a try, and see if it's less of a pain to use than SIP. And since IAX hardphones are pretty are, I guess I'll go softphone. Apparently, the two most well-known IAX and SIP clients for Windows are ZoIPer and X-Lite, respectively. For those of you have tried both, especially in a context with NAT firewalls on both sides, what's the outcome? Did you stick to ZoIPer, or is it not good on par with X-Lite? Are other clients I should know about? http://www.zoiper.com/ http://www.counterpath.com/ Thanks.
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Vincent wrote:> Hello > > I need to hook up someone's remote PC onto our Asterisk server over > the Net. There are firewalls on each side, so I figured it's time to > give IAX a try, and see if it's less of a pain to use than SIP. And > since IAX hardphones are pretty are, I guess I'll go softphone. > > Apparently, the two most well-known IAX and SIP clients for Windows > are ZoIPer and X-Lite, respectively. > > For those of you have tried both, especially in a context with NAT > firewalls on both sides, what's the outcome? Did you stick to ZoIPer, > or is it not good on par with X-Lite? Are other clients I should know > about? > > http://www.zoiper.com/ > http://www.counterpath.com/Zoiper "just works" in IAX mode. The GUI is simple and easy to use too. (Although I've only first-hand experience of the Linux one) Gordon
Jared was talking about a decent IAX hardphone on this list a week or so back, I don't recall the make. If you use IAX, all you need to do is : 1) set your local firewall to forward udp 4569 to asterisk. (optionally filtering by from IP address if your user has a fixed IP address or known range) 2) have your ZOIPer or other IAX phone register with asterisk every 60 seconds. 3) configure an IAX 'friend' account for your user. You should not need to make _any_ changes to the firewall at the remote end (unless they block all outgoing UDP). Tim. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vincent" <vincent.delporte at bigfoot.com> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com Sent: 05 February 2008 08:07:01 o'clock (GMT) Europe/London Subject: [asterisk-users] [Softphones] ZoIPer vs. XLite? Hello I need to hook up someone's remote PC onto our Asterisk server over the Net. There are firewalls on each side, so I figured it's time to give IAX a try, and see if it's less of a pain to use than SIP. And since IAX hardphones are pretty are, I guess I'll go softphone. Apparently, the two most well-known IAX and SIP clients for Windows are ZoIPer and X-Lite, respectively. For those of you have tried both, especially in a context with NAT firewalls on both sides, what's the outcome? Did you stick to ZoIPer, or is it not good on par with X-Lite? Are other clients I should know about? http://www.zoiper.com/ http://www.counterpath.com/ Thanks. _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> Are other clients I should know about? > > http://www.zoiper.com/ > http://www.counterpath.com/Add to that list - Mozphone (http://mozphone.mozdev.org/) that can be installed in Firefox -Kiax : http://sourceforge.net/projects/kiax - <shameless plug>My MediaX softphone : http://www.marccharbonneau.com/asterisk/mediaxphone.php</shameless plug> - iaxcomm : http://iaxclient.sourceforge.net/iaxcomm/ - The one from Sokol & associates : http://www.sokol-associates.com/?q=node/29 hth