VOIP: ekiga, wengophone, twinkle (was What is 'administrivia')

[Emmet Hikory]

On Jan 3, 2008 2:02 AM, Fergal Daly wrote:
> Then I'm not sure how you got any of the other SIP clients to work. As
> I understand it, unless the machine yon which you are running the SIP
> client has a publicly accessible IP address, you will not be able to
> use SIP unless you have a way to twiddle your router.

    The other common option is to use STUN (1) supported by many
consumer routers and VoIP clients.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_traversal_of_UDP_over_NATs

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Emmet HIKORY