I think I'm able to connect with Ekiga, at least it reports "registered". Curiously, when I exit Ekiga and switch to SFLphone, it isn't able to connect with the exact same parameters; it just says "trying" and never resolves. I'm not able to test outside connectivity because of too many hops: thufir at doge:~$ thufir at doge:~$ sudo sipsak -vv -s sip:thufir at ekiga.net -m "hi" No SRV record: _sip._tcp.ekiga.net No SRV record: _sip._udp.ekiga.net using A record: ekiga.net Max-Forwards set to 0 message received: SIP/2.0 483 Too Many Hops Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 192.168.1.3:44370;branch=z9hG4bK.6f1c2f33;rport=44370;alias;received=96.48.128.162 From: sip:sipsak at 127.0.1.1:44370;tag=981cae4 To: sip:thufir at ekiga.net;tag=c64e1f832a41ec1c1f4e5673ac5b80f6.bf6c Call-ID: 159501028 at 127.0.1.1 CSeq: 1 OPTIONS Server: Kamailio (1.5.3-notls (i386/linux)) Content-Length: 0 ** reply received after 161.445 ms ** SIP/2.0 483 Too Many Hops final received thufir at doge:~$ but that's ok. How can I test, I mean make a voice call, given that I only have two computers to work with at the moment? The server runs Asterisk on tleilax, and doge is the client. Both connect to the same router. the ip address for tleilax is 192.168.1.2 and the ip address for doge is 192.168.1.3 (generally; doge uses DHCP). When I get more pc's, I can maybe have doge call another pc on the network, but, for right now, what can I do to test this out? thanks, Thufir