[Asterisk-Users] a simple call to my girlfriend

[Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC]

While I agree with Firefly being a top-notch IAX client, Hendrik was 
hoping for a linux client.  I'm also curious which one people recommend.

Thanks!

Michael Graves wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 12:51:23 +0200, Hendrik Wouters wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>Some background:
>>
>>I would like to call my girlfriend over the internet. We are both behind a nat 
>>router and I want to avoid portmapping.
>>I've heard that you can call someone behind a firewall (nat router) with the 
>>IAX protocol, but I'm not sure.
>>
>>The questions:
>>
>>Do I have to set up my own PBX asterisk server or are there any other (free) 
>>servers where I can register on and connect to?
>>
>>Which is the best (linux) client to call someone with IAX?
>>
>>Thanks in advance
>>
>>Greetings Hendrik
>>
>>P.S. I don't want to use skype (not open standard, it still doens't work well 
>>in Linux and eats al the time of my old laptop CPU).
> 
> 
> You can use the Firefly soft phone as your IAX2 client. Then setup a
> couple of accounts with Free World Dialup. They support both SIP and
> IAX2 connections. This way to can call her via IAX2 without issue at
> all. You'll have to get the version of FireFly that is meant for third
> aprty networks. A quick google should turn it up.
> 
> Michael
> 
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