SVU's blog

13 Dec 2006

Rants about SIP

Deep in fight with SIP, using voipcheap.com service. Tried
ekiga/gaim/linphone/wengo (no x-lite for linux/ppc is
available). Among other things, found that no OSS SIP client
really supports presence, in my environment (well, at least
the way voipcheap understands it). Talked to Ekiga lads on
IRC – they are planning to introduce it next year (I sure
will pray for them).
Unfortunately, I am behind NAT which seems to really
complicate matters (yes, Skype folks got this thing right!).
For some reason even STUN with stun.ekiga.net does not help
– people still cannot call me (while I can call them, and I
can also call from one LAN machine to another). The last
idea to check – installing milkfish on my wrt54g and
using it as the outbound proxy. We’ll see…