[Gllug] VoIP at home, softphone, interoperability

[Chris Jones]

Hi

David L Neil Mailing list a/c wrote:
> Which client?

Twinkle is ugly and has a stupid name, but it's easy to setup and it
generally works.

> What of interoperability with Windows clients and NetMeeting, Skype,
> Google Talk, or whatever (or is such a complete pipe-dream)?

You will get very poor interoperability between anything and those
things generally, because they don't use SIP. Ekiga is capable of
speaking more than just SIP though, so it can talk to NetMeeting.
Skype's protocol is entirely secret.

No idea what Google Talk uses, but I believe they have released
libraries for it, so maybe someone will hack support into Ekiga.

Of course that doesn't stop Ekiga being buggy and having the interface
from hell. I'm strongly expecting telepathy and empathy to push Ekiga
out of GNOME in the next release or two.

Cheers,
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Chris Jones
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