[Asterisk-Users] Can i do voice chat without using the hardware

[Michael Van Donselaar]

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 04:00:39 -0800 (PST), suresh kumar <idcsureshp at yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Thanks a lot for your help.
>
>After installing iaxComm, When I test Asterisk typing
># asterisk –vvvvc

Are you running iaxComm on the same machine as asterisk?  You can't do that.
>                                                      
>                         
>I got a display like this (Not getting any CLI prompt)
>                                                      
>                         
> [chan_iax.so] => (Inter Asterisk eXchange)
>  == Manager registered action IAX1peers
>  == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/iax1.conf': Not found (No
>such file or directory
>)
>                                                      
>                         
>Why i am getting this error? How can i tackle this
>error?
>Before installing the iaxComm, i will get the CLI
>prompt. Now it's not getting it. So please help me to
>solve this problem.
>
>
>Thanks & Regards,
>Sur
>
>--- Michael Van Donselaar <mvand at vandonselaar.org>
>wrote:
>> On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 05:53:44 -0800 (PST), suresh
>> kumar <idcsureshp at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> >Hi,
>> >Thanks for your help. I had gone through the
>> >www.voip-info.org and got more information
>> regarding
>> >the asterisk. Still now i am not clear, how can i
>> test
>> >this software. I had gone through the
>> mailarchieves,
>> >but didn't get any solution.
>> >
>> >My aim is that, i want to connect my PC (where i
>> >installed the asterisk) to another PC in my network
>> >for voice chating. For this purpose, what are the
>> >steps to
>> >be done? which are the files to be modified. I
>> would
>> >like to make use of the existing Hardware (sound
>> card,
>> >network card etc), i am not using any extra
>> hardware.
>> >Is X-Lite work in Linux? or any compatible s/w that
>> >works under linux?
>> 
>> iaxComm uses asterisk's native IAX protocol.  It
>> runs on Windows, Linux and OSX.
>> Precompiled binaries for RedHat 9, Windows, and OSX
>> (Panther) ara available at:
>> 
>> http://iaxclient.sourceforge.net/iaxcomm/index.html
>> 
>> linphone is a SIP softphone for Linux:
>> 
>> http://www.linphone.org
>> 
>> >I am expecting an help from experienced person like
>> >you. Or can you please send
>> >me the link where i can get more information to
>> tackle
>> >my problem.
>> >Thanking you,
>> >Best Regards,
>> >Sur
>> >
>> >
>> >--- Matt Ammerman <Matt at DiRAD.com> wrote:
>> >> Sure thing.  You're going to have to get SIP
>> >> involved though.  This
>> >> means using sip.conf to create new sip users.
>> >> Do a search on www.voip-info.org for sip.conf and
>> it
>> >> will explain how to
>> >> configure a user for SIP.
>> >> Then you'll need SIP clients (hard VoIP phones,
>> or
>> >> SIP soft clients such
>> >> as Windows Messenger or X-Lite).
>> >> You can make VoIP calls over an existing network
>> >> infrastructure without
>> >> analog hardware.
>> >> For instance, I have an internal Asterisk PBX
>> >> allowing VoIP
>> >> conversations between X-Lite, Windows Messenger,
>> and
>> >> Pingtel clients -
>> >> all over networking connections, no T1/E1/Analog
>> >> needed.
>> >> You need the hardware when you start interfacing
>> >> with the PSTN for the
>> >> most part.
>> >> 
>> >
>
>
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