[Asterisk-Users] a simple call to my girlfriend

[Yiannis Costopoulos]

No it wouldn't. It doesn't run on his laptop.

I would suggest two FWD accounts with two SIP softphones.

Unless you really want to go the Asterisk way and use IAX softphones over
NAT that works slightly better.

Yiannis.

> -----Original Message-----
>
> Skype would do you the best.
>
> On 6/2/05, Hendrik Wouters <hwouters at pandora.be> 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).
> >