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do use sip and there are ways to extract the credentials if anything uses
SIP.

There are some unofficial forums that have popped up if you google for them.

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Trixter aka Bret McDanel <
trixter at 0xdecafbad.com> wrote:

>
> On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 04:29 -0400, Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
> >       I saw an ad for MagicJack on TV, a USB VoIP dongle with a $20:year
> > unlimited calling subscription,  and looked into it. I am in no way
> > affiliated with MagicJack, except that I saw the ad and was curious. It
> > was introduced at the TED conference last April, and was buggy through
> > last Summer. But it's been around a year now, has a budget for
> > mass-market advertising.
> >
>
> you have to use their dongle (which appears to be a softmodem packaged
> as an FXS port) and their service.  They do not have linux support for
> it, only windows and osx.
>
> I have already approached them about linux stuff, but that was just
> today, so nothing yet has happened more than finding out who exactly to
> contact and a proposal submitted to do the work.
>
> Based on their webpage they use G.711 as the codec (they say you need
> 80kbps of bandwidth per call).  It is unclear at this time if they
> support any standard VoIP protocol or not, they specifically state they
> are not compatible with asterisk, and imply they are only compatible
> with their device.
>
> It is my belief that the dongle itself is not smart enough to do
> anything but act as a FXS port, and that the software that controls it
> is what controls everything else.  I do not know if they are receptive
> to linux support (which should be most BSD/POSIX compatible systems if
> my proposal is accepted).
>
> I also do not know if they are even receptive to the idea of a 3rd party
> writing and maintaining drivers for their hardware since it can cause
> them some problems in terms of support queries.  My hope is yes, but I
> probably wont know until well after the weekend since it is a holiday in
> many places around the world.  I further do not know if they will allow
> open source or not, I do not know if they will allow support for their
> service (regardless of the device itself) which would allow open source
> switches to utilize it.
>
> Worst case I may just get one and sniff the usb bus to see what they do
> and how they do it and code based on that, if the inet part isnt
> terribly difficult I may write something that would interface, for all I
> know its just generic SIP.
>
>
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