SIPpidy Do Dah

I finally found a Linux SIP user agent that will work with Asterisk behind firewalls. It’s Vovida’s Sipset.

Most Linux UA’s are crap, and this one is only part-crap. It hogs the soundcard and doesn’t release calls. It has no DTMF, or phone book. It’s bare-bones, to say the least. But at least it can surf through NATted connections. And it’s native Linux.

I had fun with it today, making Greg‘s phone ring with a the touch of a mouse key. (Man, I love to torment Greg. As if his work life wasn’t tough enough already.)

I’ve located Red Hat 9 RPMS for Sipset, which is a must, considering that compiling Vocal is a mysterious process. Vovida’s idea of package building is wack.

Some day I’ll find a decent Linux SIP phone which doesn’t require 300 MB of KDE dependencies (a la kphone).