Long ago, Nostradamus foresaw that on 12/28/2011 08:00 AM, Carola y Pablo would write: > Can you explain how you set up an account to do this that you say below: > " You don't actually need ekiga.net to talk with someone via SIP (e.g. I > have family members on an openvpn private VPN, and we just directly > connect to the private IP, via private name service - and the call is > encrypted as well)." > > I am interested in the possibility of IP to IP communication. There is no account to set up.
In the address field of Ekiga, simply type "sip:user@192.0.2.1" where user is anything you like (it would be important if you were talking to a sip router - ekiga ignores it) and 192.0.2.1 is the IP of the person you wish to talk to. If you have name service that maps a name to the IP, you can use the name instead. If either user is behind NAT, then things get complex, and you should probably use ekiga.net. I would advise you to use IP6 to avoid NAT issues (signing up with a tunnel broker if needed), but sadly, ekiga does not seem to support IP6. I've tried sip:user@2001:db8::1 and sip:user@[2001:db8::1]. Neither works. The other thing to do to get around NAT is to set up a VPN. See http://openvpn.net which can traverse NAT, and runs on Mac, Linux, and Windows. Set up a machine that is on most of the time and has a stable IP (e.g. static or cable) as the VPN server. Note that diamondcard.us offers a VPN service, but I think it is only between you and diamond card. _______________________________________________ ekiga-list mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list