Very good VoiceOverIP news for PowerPC-users:

The programmer of the IMHO best SIP-phone around,
e.g. compared to kphone or linphone, fixed some
problems with the byteorder on replay of soundsamples
by using libsndfile in Version 0.6.

http://www.twinklephone.com

0.6.1 builds and runs great on my Pegasos-II with Debian.
You can even build it without KDE (qt-only), although
this will disable kaddressbook binding.

Excellent freeware. Have fun!

Peter, can you post more about this?

R&B

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Hi R&B!

I am using twinkle right now btw. - on the line for
more then 1h.

Maybe quoting the featurelist might be of interest:

In addition to making basic voice calls Twinkle provides
you the following features regardless of the services that
your VoIP service provider might offer.

2 call appearances (lines)
Multiple active call identities
Custom ring tones (new)
Call Waiting
Call Hold
3-way conference calling
Mute
Call redirection on demand
Call redirection unconditional
Call redirection when busy
Call redirection no answer
Reject call redirection request
Blind call transfer
Reject call transfer request
Call reject
Repeat last call
Do not disturb
Auto answer
User defineable scripts to handle incoming calls (new)
E.g. to implement selective call reject or distinctive ringing
Send DTMF digits (RFC 2833) to navigate IVR systems
STUN support for NAT traversal
Send NAT keep alive packets when using STUN
NAT traversal through static provisioning
Missed call indication (new)
History of call detail records for incoming, outgoing, successful and missed calls
DNS SRV support
Automatic failover to an alternate server if a server is unavailable
Other programs can originate a SIP call via Twinkle, e.g. call from address book (new)
System tray icon (now also on non-KDE builts)
System tray menu to quickly originate and answer calls while Twinkle stays hidden

hi kaltst

these SIP phones seen like a very nice idea however
my limited understanding is you need some form of
sip server if your wanting to use them on a private
lan/wan such as a wireless network ?.

i forget the name now but i seem to remember that the
only server i could find was some monsterous thing that didnt do anything to help the average slightly techy people install and configure a basic (less than 10 users) ip phonline.

would you happen to know if something exists that would allow me/anyone to setup such a server with webserver for gui frontend an all-in one type package ?.

im willing to dedicate an old pc 400mhz or some such to an ip sip server if i can collect enough howto
info then just go out and get some usb sip phones or sw sip such as you point out.

hell even a small mips server might be useful to enbed into one of the new wireless NOS units.

using the sip over the internet would be a bonus for what i have in mind (small community wireless homewatch and such)but not essential.

Hi Popper,

you seem to refer to Asterisk http://www.asterisk.org/
when talking about "monsterous thing"?
True, that it is very huge and configuring might take
a lot of time. (but maybe it´s worth it nevertheless
and you gain knowledge for corporate solutions.)

SIP is IMHO interesting, because of those many SIP
providers/gateways. For LAN-use I tested gnome-meeting -
you can connect between your LAN-IPs without having
the need for any registration server.

I had no need installing SIP-servers on LAN. You might
give this one a try: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openser/

Let us know, if it is more easy to set up!

Regards,
Peter

Twinkle SIP-phone V0.7 is available: http://www.twinklephone.com

btw, Debian now has V0.62 available as package in testing/unstable:
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/sear ... ds=twinkle

I just built 0.7 on my Peg/Debian and it runs fine.

New in 0.7:
29 apr 2006 - Release 0.7
=========================
- Speex support (narrow, wide and ultra wide band)
- Support for dynamic payload numbers for audio codecs in SDP
- Inband DTMF (option for DTMF transport in user profile)
- UTF-8 support to properly display non-ASCII characters
- --cmd command line option to remotely execute CLI commands
- --immediate command line option to perform --call and --cmd without user
confirmation.
- --set-profile command line option to set the active profile.
- Support "?subject=" as part of address for --call
- The status icon are always displayed: gray -> inactive, full color -> active
- Clicking the registration status icon fetches current registration status
- Clicking the service icons enables/disables the service
- Fancier popup from KDE system tray on incoming call.
- Popup from system tray shows as long as the phone is ringing.
- Reload button on address form
- Remove special phone number symbols from dialed strings.
This option can be enabled/disabled via the user profile.
- Remove duplicate entries from the dial history drop down box
- Specify in the user profile what symbols are special symbols to remove.
- Changed default for "use domain to create unique contact header value" to
"no"
- New SIP protocol option: allow SDP change in INVITE responses
- Do not ask username and password when authentication for an
automatic re-regsitration fails. The user may not be at his desk, and
the authentication dialog stalls Twinkle.
- Ask authentication password when user profile contains authentication
name, but no password.
- Improved handling of socket errors when interface goes down temporarily.

Bug fixes
---------
- If the far end holds a call and then resumes a call while Twinkle has
been put locally on-hold, then Twinkle will start recording sound from
the mic and send it to the far-end while indicating that the call is
still on-hold.
- Crash on no-op SDP in re-INVITE
- Twinkle exits when it receives SIGSTOP followed by SIGCONT
- call release cause in history is incorrect for incoming calls.

Build improvements
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- Break dependency on X11/xpm.h